Winx Club / Tropes S to Z

Tropes A-F | Tropes G-L | Tropes M-R | Tropes S-Z

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Winx Club provides examples of:

S

• Sailor Earth: 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.
• Science Fantasy: The series focuses mostly on magic since the main characters are fairies with all sorts of magic powers such as fire, nature, or 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.
• Sealed Evil in a Can:
  • Valtor counts as "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 Greater-Scope Villain, Acheron, is a wizard trapped inside the Legendarium. 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.
• Second Episode Morning: Again, also through dub editing.
• Second Love: Nex for Aisha after Nabu dies.
• Second-Person Attack: 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.
• See-Thru Specs: 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.
• Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: 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.
• Sequel Goes Foreign: 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).
• Series Continuity Error:
  • The worst example: Nabu. He 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 impersonated by one of Darkar's minions. But in "The Shadow Phoenix," he was Darkar in disguise. This broke continuity with season three, since 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).
• Series Fauxnale:
  • 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 Cash-Cow Franchise, 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.
• Series Goal:
  • The goal for the Winx is to defeat the Arc Villain 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.
• 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.
• She's a Man in Japan: In the English version, the Sirenix Book has a female voice. In the Italian version, it has a male voice.
• Shipper on Deck: There's several examples. The most obvious would have to be Amore, the pixie of love.
• Shirtless Scene: 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.
• Shot-for-Shot Remake: 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.
• Shout-Out:
  • 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 A Nightmare on Elm Street
    Darth Vader from Star Wars (the guy even says to Mitzi "Everyone has a dark side.")
    Spiderman from Spiderman
    Robin from Witch Hunter Robin
    Doronjo from Yatterman
    There was even a little witch girl seen flying in the sky that greatly resembled Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service.
  • 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 Acronym, clearly referencing Dueling Show W.I.T.C.H..
  • The Patchamen (Wrong-Righters in 4Kids...) are a direct shout-out to the anime Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, 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 Kotetsu Jeeg trasforming sequence.
  • An early episode has the Trix wandering the underground tunnels that used to link the three schools together... and their maps uses the friggin' Triforce as a symbol for one of them. 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 Macross: Do You Remember Love?.
  • In the same episode, one of the outfits Bloom tries on is very likely a reference to Jem from 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 W.
  • In Season 7, Griselda puts on a fedora and moonwalks.
  • In Season 1's final battle between Bloom and Icy, Icy gives off an Evil Laugh when she thought she had killed Bloom with an ice spell, then to her shock, Bloom appears laughing behind her before fire-punching the witch into the lake. This could be a nod to the scene in Bastard when Dai-Amon laughs when he thought he killed Dark Schneider, then gets shocked when Dark Schneider appeared laughing behind him.
• Shown Their Work:
  • The "Angel of Doom" is loosely taken from The Bible 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.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: 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.
• Sickeningly Sweet: The prison of Lightrock tries to reform the inmates by overexposing them to cuteness. The only thing that can actually terrify the Trix is being brought back there...
• Signature Move:
  • Bloom's is summoning a dragon made of fire around her. She usually launches the thing at whoever has managed to really piss her off — which happens when one of the villains has hurt one of her loved ones or when she's had enough of getting her ass handed to her. It's also a case of Evolving Attack as it's implied that, every time she uses this spell in a new transformation, it's stronger than her previous attempts. She's also combined this spell with other magical essences, including doing Convergence with the other Winx, to make it a Super Special Move. Her Fire Dragon is also versatile, as it has been used for purposes other than combat — in season four, she uses it to awe some humans into believing in magic and, in season five, to save a horse from a pretty nasty fall. For all of these reasons, Bloom is marketed as casting this spell on more than one occasion. Here's a fan compilation of all the times Bloom has summoned her Fire Dragon.
  • Flora's is summoning magical vines with which to ensnare her enemies. There's no official name for this spell as it either has several names or there are many different spells that generate the same effect. In any case, Flora creates vines first and almost reflexively whenever she's in battle. Her vines can also be used to contain stuff and give structural support. However, it's been noted that they are rather weak — it's not that hard to break out of them if trapped and every other spell dispels them.
  • Subverted with Stella's. Hers used to be a solar flare charged with her scepter. Like Flora's, Stella has used all kinds of names when casting it. Although in her case, it's likely they are different spells, it's just that she makes the same swinging movement when boosting them with her scepter. She eventually stops wielding her scepter altogether.
• Singing Voice Dissonance: 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.
• Single-Biome Planet:
  • 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 because there's a snake monster in charge of keeping the place frozen.
• Siren Song: Daphne the Nymph softly chants variations of "Bloom, come to me" during Bloom's dreams. Daphne grows increasingly insistent and ominous as the plot progresses, up until their connection is strong enough for Bloom to see her. Bloom then frantically asks her friends and the Headmistress for help to locate Daphne's whereabouts: the Rocalucce Lake. Subverted because once she's there, it's revealed that Daphne is Bloom's older sister and the one who saved her from their planet's destruction. The reason for Daphne's calls is that she just wanted to have a family reunion with Bloom.
• Sixth Ranger:
  • Aisha/Layla in season 2.
  • Roxy in season 4. While still officially a member of the group per Word of God, she is Demoted to Extra in later seasons, at most serving as Mission Control.
• Slave Mooks:
  • The Army of Darkness are summoned by the Trix and only obey them.
  • Valtor's minions in season 3 are brainwashed mermaids and witches.
• So Last Season:
  • Season two had 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.
• Speaks Fluent Animal:
  • 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.
• Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: 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.
• Spoiler Opening: 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 receive until Episode 24.
• Standardized Space Views:
  • "Mission to Domino" shows a shot of the frozen, devastated planet of Domino before the girls land on its surface.
  • In the third season, the other girls' home planets are introduced this way whenever they travel there by spaceship. Typically, an Owl will be approaching the planet's surface —the golden Solaria in "The Princess Ball", the aquatic Andros in "Sea of Fear" and "One Last Fluttering of Wings", and the nature-bound Lynphea in "The Black Willow's Tears". The inhospitable Omega Dimension is also presented this way in "The Princess Ball" and "In the Snake's Lair".
  • The fourth season's Title Sequence opens with a shot of a slowly rotating Earth (the American continent, to be specific). Then, the Winx fly right to where Gardenia is roughly located (the U.S.) while in their fairy forms. This is partially reclycled in "The Last Fairy of Earth", the episode where they move to that planet.
• Star-Shaped Coupon:
  • Third season: In "The Red Tower", training against magic-nullifying creatures makes Bloom's Enchantix's weaknesses all the more evident. As a result, the girls set out to seek the mythical Water Stars, which contain a magic essence that wins the Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors against the Dragon's Flame, hoping to finally defeat Valtor. As their name indicates, the Water Stars are star-shaped, jeweled artifacts that can only be activated by Bloom. When used against Valtor, it's an instant trump card that also leaves Bloom briefly out of commission.
  • Fifth season: As it's typical for the series to reuse characters and props liberally, what used to be the Water Stars is now the Sirenix Boxes. To aid them in their high-stakes quest for the Sirenix transformation, the Book of Sirenix gifts the Winx six star-shaped boxes containing small guardians. These nymph-like creatures are powerful enough to grant them an intermediary (but very useful for water environments) transformation called Harmonix. They also give hints to the girls when they are stuck trying to crack one of the Book's puzzles. Finally, the Guardians of the Sirenix also have free access to the Infinite Ocean, a place the girls can't access for most of the season.
• Stationary Wings: 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 Flora◊. Her top looks like a couple of leaves sewn together, and it's backless! And the only thing holding down Aisha's 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 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.
• Status Buff: Seems to be advanced magic, used by Faragonda and Griffin in the season 2 finale.
• Status Quo Is God: 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.
• Story Arc: 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 Valtor is stealing to make himself more powerful.
• Stuck on a Ski Lift: This happens to the Winx and the Specialists in a season 2 episode.
• Stylish Protection Gear: Aurora's outfit.
• Subverted Suspicion Aesop: 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.
• Suddenly Always Knew That: Stella uses her fashion knowledge / a minor detail from a field trip to solve a puzzle.
• Suggestive Collision: 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, his face smooshes into Tecna's butt.
• Summon Magic: 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.
• Super Special Move: Bloom's Signature Move is summoning a dragon made of fire around her. It doubles as an Evolving Attack seeing that, with each new fairy transformation she earns, said spell gets stronger. It can be found at its most impressive in the second movie, Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure. Usually, the flaming dragon, when coiled, is roughly the same size as Bloom. In that film's Final Battle, however, it gets significantly bigger and is strong enough to compete against the combined might of Icy (the strongest of the Trix) and her ancestor Belladona (basically a semi-goddess in terms of power). Both of them are being powered by the negative side of the Tree of Life. This display is followed by Bloom making Convergence with the other Winx to produce an even more potent version of this spell, which quite literally burns the Ancestral Witches and eliminates them for good. Bloom has also combined her Fire Dragon with other magical essences in order to boost its potency — e.g., with her Fairy Dust to contend against the Omega Dimension's giant serpent and with the Water Stars to nearly kill Valtor.
• Swirling Dust:
  • When Stella is fighting Knut and his ghouls, she unleashes an area-of-effect spell that knocks several ghouls and generates a small dust updraft while it's charging.
  • Bloom's bursts of raw magic tend to have this effect as a consequence of having an expansive radius. They knock out whoever pissed Bloom off as well as blast off a big cloud of dust. It, fortunately, does little property damage.
  • When Bloom awakens her first fairy transformation out of fear, her hair, the grass, and some dust are waving as if tousled by a draft. A pair of rings of magic accompany the special effects.
• Sword Beam: Any sword made in Domino has the capacity to shot beams of magic. Oritel's, in particular, channels a spark of the Dragon's Flame, so it carries a fire Elemental Motif.
• Symbolic Mutilation: In "The Crystal Labyrinth", three of the Winx are required to prove if they'd sacrifice what's most valuable to them in exchange for obtaining the Water Stars. In Stella's case, she loses her beauty, with her face getting disfigured. This symbolizes how Stella thinks people only love her for her looks and not for who she really is. Combined with her fear of being alone, for her, giving up her beauty means that everyone will abandon her. Also, she does enjoy pampering herself and being a Dude Magnet. With this, she finishes her Character Arc of self-love.
• Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain: The fourth season has two groups of antagonists at odds with each other. The Wizards of the Black Circle, a foursome of men devoted to hunting fairies to absorb their magic, which involves cruelly ripping their wings off. The Earth's fairies are victims of the aforementioned villains, so they are hellbent on getting revenge against both the wizards and humanity as a whole. While the Winx, the heroines, show compassion to both sides at some point, the Wizards take advantage of that and stab them in the back while Earth's fairies get redeemed after learning to let go of their grievances.

T

• Take Our Word for It: The Winx's transformation was offscreen in Season 4, Episode 6, only getting aside comments by Ogron.
• Take That!: 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!
• Taken for Granite:
  • 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, 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.
• Tamer and Chaster: 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.
• Team Pet: Kiko for the Winx. In season 1, the Trix had Pepe the duck, but he disappeared after season 2.
• Technicolor Death: Valtor/Baltor. When Bloom extinguishes his flame from within, rays of light shine from him and he explodes in a flash of light.
• Television Tie-In Magazines: The series has spawned all sorts of magazines targeted to teenage-to-little girls. All of them contain trivia about the characters' likes, dislikes, dating habits, spells, and opinions on other characters; be it in the form of quizzes, character sheets, In-Universe interviews, or flavored advice (for happiness and friendship) given by the characters. For instance, Flora recommends serving different herbal teas depending on the situation; be it a gathering of friends or wanting to comfort a distressed friend.
• Terrible Trio: The Trix during season 3, where they were less competent than before.
• Title, Please!: In the 4Kids dub, the episode titles don't appear onscreen.
• That Poor Plant: 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 knocks 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 Ogron uses the last gift of destiny on a dead flower to prevent the Winx girls from using it to revive Nabu.
• Theme Tune Roll Call: Each Winx gets their own title card in the original opening to Season 1 and the Nick Specials.
• There Are No Police: The Winx have rumbled with witches and villains alike in plain daylight (like in "Betrayed") and have never once either been aided or chased out by the cops. When Stella goes missing in "Date with Disaster", none of the girls even mentions reporting it to the police. Furthermore, when the Trix sic their newly-summoned Army of Decay onto Magix city in "The Fall of Magix", it's implied there are no public defending forces to oppose its advance. In cities in the Magic Dimension, at least, it seems the only law enforcement are castle guards; and those only operate in royal palaces, anyway. This is averted when they visit Earth, as they run into trouble with the police sometimes.
• This Cannot Be!: Lord Darkar screams this at the end of the second season when the Winx defeat him with a convergence attack with their Charmix.
• This Is Unforgivable!: 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.
• Token Minority Couple: Aisha and Nabu.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Aisha and Stella.
• Too Dumb to Live: Quite a few examples. A special mention goes to the Trix, who sometimes are too Stupid Evil to live in the comics. See Ungrateful Bastard below.
• Town Contest Episode: In "A Friendship Sundered", riders from all across Magix city are competing in a race à propos the Day of the Rose. Amongst the contestants, we have three of the Specialists and Darcy. If her participation sounds odd, well, that's because she's there to make it seem as if Riven's friends have sabotaged him and then swoop in to rescue him.
• Tragic Keepsake: 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.
• Traintop Battle: 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.
• Transformation Discretion Shot:
  • The Winx's Enchantix Transformation Sequence 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 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.
• Transformation Name Announcement: 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!"
• Transformation Sequence:
  • 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.
• Transformation Trinket: 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.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: In season four, the bad guys actually stand around and discuss the "show and dance" while the girls transform.
• Transparent Hair: 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.
• Tutu Fancy: The Butterflix dresses.

U

• Unexplained Recovery:
  • 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! A Fate Worse Than Death? They showed up again at the beginning of season 3, but how they got out remains a mystery.
  • For some unknown reason, 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.
• Ungrateful Bastard:
  • 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.
• Unguided Lab Tour: In "Mission at Cloud Tower", the Winx sneak into Cloud Tower to retrieve Stella's rings from the Trix's bedroom. After finding it, they hear the Trix returning and rush to escape, getting themselves into the school's top-secret vault: the Crypt of the Magic Archive. When they enter, the camera pans to show several bookcases (which contain biographies of every notable fairy and witch to have ever existed), a statue holding an axe, and a planet globe. A curious Bloom picks up a book whose contents are unknown, therefore alerting Headmistress Griffin of intruders in the vault. The other girls follow suit until they all find a book about Bloom —it turns out to be a trap set up remotely by Griffin.
• Unified Naming System: The Winx (a sextet of do-gooder fairies) find their most recurrent enemies in the Trix (a trio of evil witches). Both their names end with the suffix -ix and are modifications of existing words. Respectively, wings and tricks.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: 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.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: 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.
• Unwilling Roboticisation: 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.
• Uptown Girl: 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 engaged to Princess Diaspro and that Bloom didn't know back then she's also a Princess.
• Useless Boyfriend:
  • Zig-Zagged 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, until she gets taken by surprise by Sky who 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 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 Brought Down to Normal, while miles up in the sky.

V

• Vanilla Edition: The releases of the movies in America have been this. The only option on the DVD menus is to play the movies.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey:
  • In Season 1, the Trix are serious villains, but their ogre Knut is a more comical villain who eventually undergoes a Heel–Face Turn.
  • In Season 2, the Trix are Demoted to Dragon 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. 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. He's eventually revealed to be the corrupted form of Argan, a kindly ruler of Lumenia, and leaves Valtor.
• Villainous Breakdown: 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.

W

• We Can Rule Together:
  • 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.
• Weak Boss, Strong Underlings:
  • As the titular characters earn more powerful transformations each season, they become the strong underlings for Faragonda's weak boss. Faragonda, a Retired Badass in her own right, is the elderly Headmistress of the fairy school the Winx attend and the one who assigns them missions. It's unclear the exact point when their dynamic shifts but given that Faragonda is unable to call on her fairy transformations, it's probably fairly early on.
  • Selina, the sixth season's Dragon with an Agenda, is at the same time an inversion and a straight example of this trope. She's a fairly inexperienced witch who, while very cunning, has to rely on her summoned creatures to pose a threat to the Winx Club, a sextet of powerful fairies. Left hanging is the implication that her summons could take her in a fight. On the flip side, her ability to materialize dangerous monsters from the Legendarium is what compelled the Trix (accomplished witches on their own and the season's Big Bads) to adopt Selina as their minion. Up until this point, the Trix have been steadily defeated by the Winx. Therefore, the summons are stronger than the trio of witches even if Selina herself is not. The same case repeats with Selina's true master, Acheron. It's even more glaring because, while all the magic Selina has gathered allows him to summon a gigantic hydra, the hydra causes far more havoc than he. In fact, Acheron is defeated rather easily by just one of the Winx.
• Weakened by the Light: Stella shows a complete inversion of this. Being a Solarian, her Weaksauce Weakness is darkness. No, not Dark Magic. The absence of light slowly kills her. Artificial light may help her temporarily, but she needs sunlight to strengthen (this is the reason her dorm at Alfea gets the most sunlight).
• Welcome Titles: Every season's opening introduces the girls, their boyfriends, and the current villains. From the first to the third season, this is done by adding a clipped figurine of the Winx and the Trix after showing some Stock Footage of them doing stuff. The boyfriends and the other villains are shown in recycled shots. From the fourth season onward, the Winx and their boyfriends are on a line and the camera glides over them until it stares up at the sky. The Trix and other villains just get Stock Footage of them laughing or committing evil deeds.
• Wham Episode: Has its own page.
• What Happened to the Mouse?:
  • 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 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.
• What Other Galaxies?: The Great Dragon is stated to have created the whole universe, spicing it up with life and magic. Now, the universe is called Magic Dimension (or Magic Universe or Kingdom, depending on the dub), but the said dimension is composed of a number of planets, realms, embedded sub-dimensions, and unnamed stars that all rotate around the planet Magix. So, the Magic Dimension as a whole is more of a galaxy than an actual universe. The only times where space maps have been shown have been in seasons 3 and 8 and the first website — all three instances show the Magic Dimension arranged like a big, physics-defying planetary system (not helped by the fact it's hard to pin down the exact difference between a planet, a dimension, and a realm). Funnily enough, the Earth's situation is very ambiguous, to say the least. It's outside the Magic Dimension, but it's unclear whether that means the Milky Way and the Magic Dimension are fellow galaxies or fellow dimensions/universes. The fact the Earth used to harbor magical beings of unclear origin (are they conquerors or natives?) further muddies the waters since it implies that it could belong to the Magic Dimension.
• What the Hell, Hero?: 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.
• When Trees Attack: 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.
• Where the Hell Is Springfield?: 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.
• Wicked Stepmother: 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.
• Winged Humanoid: Aside from the wings, the fairies look no different than humans.
• Winged Unicorn: Peg, Bloom's horse in Magical Adventure, turns into one when he eats some leaves from the new Tree of Life.
• Wise Serpent: Selina, the witch of snakes, is a Dragon with an Agenda for the Trix sisters. She proves to be cunning enough to trick them into thinking she's a Naïve Newcomer who greatly admires their power. She offers to help them fight their enemies by summoning dangerous myth creatures from her Ancient Artifact. In reality, doing so builds up magical power, so she can summon her true boss, Acheron, from the Legendarium. Proof of this is how utterly shocked the Trix are when Selina betrays them.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity:
  • 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 Word of God, the Trix suffer from this all the time. Depending on how much dark energy they have build up, their mental state slides from Harmless Villain to Omnicidal Maniac. 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.
• A Wizard Did It:
  • 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."
• Wizarding School: 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.
• World of Action Girls: 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.
• World of Muscle Men: 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.
• Worthy Opponent: 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 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.
• Would Hit a Girl:
  • 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 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 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.
• Writers Cannot Do Math:
  • 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.
• Written-In Absence: 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.
• Wrong Insult Offence:
  Mirta: You're mean!
  Icy: Mean? Try diabolical!

X

• Xtreme Kool Letterz:
  • Winx is a stylized version of the word wings.
  • All of the fairy transformations are just some word modified to fit an -ix termination to it: Charmix (charm), Enchantix (enchanted), Believix (believe), Lovix (love), Sophi (from sophia, the Greek for wisdom), Harmonix (harmony), Sirenix (from sirena, the Italian for mermaid), Bloomix (bloom), Mythix (myth), Butterflix (butterfly), Tynix (tiny), and Cosmix (cosmos).
  • Similarly for some of the witch transformations: Gloomix (gloom), Disenchantix (disenchanted), and Dark Sirenix.

Y

• You Are Grounded!:
  • In Season 1 Episodes 6-7, as punishment for sneaking into Cloud Tower, Faragonda strips the Winx of their powers, and Griselda forces them to clean the entire school without magic while the others go on a field trip. The 4Kids version of the episode is fittingly titled "Grounded" and adds that the Winx are forbidden from leaving campus for the next two days. Averted in the Nickelodeon special adaptation where (since the events of Season 1 Episode 6 were cut from the specials) them being stripped of their powers and their cleaning duty are jointly rewritten as a special assignment for new students.
  • In the 4Kids dub of Season 1 Episode 17, the Winx are severely punished for disgracing Alfea's reputation by ruining the Day of the Royals. Faragonda and Griselda set grounds for expulsion and will meet with the council to decide whether or not the Winx will be invited back to Alfea next year. In the meantime, the Winx's magic powers diluted by 50%, leaving them with only half of their normal strength. The decision in diluting the Winx's powers as opposed to stripping them entirely was made so that they could continue their studies. The 4Kids dub of the next episode, Season 1 Episode 18, further reveals that the Winx are on academic probation and are indefinitely forbidden from leaving campus no matter what.
  • In Season 2 Episode 13, the Winx are forced to clean the entire school duty once again as punishment for skipping school and leaving to Gardenia without permission. However, seeing that the Winx could use some practice in using convergence to prepare for their upcoming battle against Lord Darkar, Faragonda allows them practice and use convergence magic whilst working on their cleaning punishment. Averted in the 4Kids dub where (just like with their previous cleaning duty punishment) the Winx were forbidden from using magic during their punishment.
  • In Season 3 Episode 7, Griselda forces both the Winx and the Pixies to reorganize the restricted area of the library (without using magic of course) as punishment for Bloom, Flora, Musa, Tecna and Aisha all leaving campus without permission and missing almost half a week due to their Andros mission, and for Stella having the Pixies impersonate the absent Winx members. In the Nickelodeon version, this is actually the only time where the Winx are punished for their actions, as in the four one-hour Nick specials, their punishment from Season 1 Episode 6-7 was rewritten as a special assignment in the first special (due to Episode 6 alone being cut); the events of Season 1 Episode 17 are more true to the original Cinélume version in the second special, and in the fourth and final special (which is the only one to summarize Season 2), all of the events that occurred in Season 2 Episode 13 (including their punishment) never even happened.
• You Can't Thwart Stage One: Despite the Winx's best efforts, they are unable to stop Darkar getting the pieces of the codex. They are also unable to stop him from capturing Bloom and corrupting her into Dark Bloom.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
  • In Season 2, once Darkar feels that he doesn't need the Trix anymore, he tosses them into a black hole (or back to Lightrock Monastery in the Nick version).
  • The Trix also do this to Riven in a Break the Haughty sequence.
  • 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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