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Goth girls. They like to wear black, fancy dresses, makeup that gives an eerie appearance, and religious imagery. There likewise tends to be the themes of supernatural and occult inside the works of their subculture. Then it's no surprise that they're often portrayed as wielding magic or other supernatural powers in fiction.

This prevalence of this trope lies in the origins of the goth subculture itself. Gothic literature has writers who accept delved into horror and the supernatural like H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, each of whom have influenced the subculture, and their literary works continue to remain highly popular amidst goths. Gothic artwork from the 18th and 19th centuries that accept motifs of mysticism and morbidity influenced the visual taste of Gothic art. The same goes for cult supernatural horror films such as Dracula which appealed to early goths.

Since the release of The Craft, this trope tin can exist tied to real life teenage rebellion. If a teen girl wants to rebel confronting the status quo of social club, information technology's probable she'll either become Goth, accept upwards some form of paganism, or do both at the aforementioned time. Fiction tends to take this farther, with Goth girls automatically casting hexes and flushing the Dominion of Three down the toilet.

May overlap with Lady of Black Magic if she'due south composed and graceful enough. She'll frequently be a Hot Witch if portrayed every bit beautiful. If she'southward from a Magical Girl series, she'll most probable be the Dark Magical Girl. Usually tend to exist the outset in line to exist Dark Is Non Evil, being aesthetically night just probable plenty to exist sympathetic.

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    Anime and Manga

• Hilda from Beelzebub. She'southward always dressed in black Elegant Gothic Lolita, and has vast magical powers every bit a demon maid who serves nether the Demon Male monarch.
• Gordon Agrippa from Black Clover is a Rare Male Instance. He has the wait down with grey habiliment, pale skin, and black makeup. It'due south also notable that, amongst the balance of the cast who are mages, he'due south an skillful in Curse Magic, adding hexes to his Poison Magic.
• Halvir Hroptr from Crimson Spell is another goth guy example. He's ane of the most talented mages in the setting and specializes in curses and offensive burn magic. He's also a sardonic loner who dresses mostly in intimidating black robes (complete with shiny leather boots), and if the way he gushes most his lover's Superpowered Evil Side is any indication, he has an appreciation for the darker side of things.
• Saki Hanajima from Fruits Basket only wears black gothic dresses exterior of school and is the only character to have supernatural Psychic Powers that allow her to read minds. She really became a goth considering of her powers after she accidentally fabricated a bully pass out, every bit she decided to e'er vesture black and paint her nails black to punish herself what happened. Tohru helped her have and forgive herself for having powers, only she's still a goth out of habit. It's something of a Running Gag that people compare her to a witch for her black dresses and mysterious powers.
• Naruto gives us a Rare Male Example in the form of Gaara. His fighting fashion is based entirely around manipulation of sand and he rarely moves his own body at all (beyond motioning with his hands to directly the sand), permit alone engaging in any conventional martial arts or use of weapons, all of which makes him i of the most "wizard"-similar ninjas in the series.
• I Slice: "Ghost Princess" Perona'southward Devil Fruit power is more than "magical"-themed than average, letting her create ghosts and transport an Astral Projection of herself. She wears gothic lolita and, to add to the gothiness, is very alone, causing her to greatly desire companionship.
• Played With regarding Stocking in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. She dresses in Elegant Gothic Lolita style and displays goth tendencies, and as an angel she is inherently magical. She is every flake a Magical Daughter Warrior who wields enchanted swords in battle, rather than the expected sorcery.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica has this Played With regarding Homura Akemi. She has shades of beingness goth, what with her darker outfit in comparison to the others and her sardonic and solitary personality, only her Time Master powers equally a Magical Girl Warrior aren't equally overtly magical every bit is typical for this trope. Notwithstanding, in Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion she fits this to a T when she ascends to Homulilly and Akuma Homura, gaining very gothic appearances to match the surge in magical power.
• Crewman Saturn from Sailor Moon. She has a gothic physical appearance and ordinarily dresses in imperial and black. She's by far the most magically strong Sailor, able to destroy entire planets with the powers of silence and destruction. Information technology'south non and then much that she'south evil simply that her role is to cleanse the dead and broken then that life tin grow afresh.
• Arachne from Soul Eater. A luxuriously gothic witch with eccentric tastes and lady-like mannerism. That and her spider-based magic adding a lovely dose of malevolence and creepiness to her true nature.
• Marion Phauna from Shaman King. She wears a black gothic lolita clothes, and as the daughter of a fortune teller she could already dispense puppets even every bit a kid, long earlier she even got her powers to use a Spirit as a Shaman.
• Aki Izayoi of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, especially while she is the Blackness Rose Witch. She wears a Victorian-style apparel, is solitary and angry at the world and her parents for shunning her, and has Psychic Powers that could plow her card'due south attacks into real fire and vines.

    Comic Books

• Empowered has Sistah Spooky, a gothy superhero who made a Deal with the Devil to use black magic.
• Lucifer has Elaine Belloc, the half-human daughter of the Archangel Michael, who actually becomes God at 1 point.
• Runaways has Nico Minoru, a Goth girl who ends up wielding the sorcerous artifact known as the Staff of One, which is powered by Blood Magic. In a chip of a tweak on the trope, her parents—both dark sorcerers—adopted the guise of devout Christians and vocally disapproved of Nico's Goth trappings. She'due south at present the trope's folio image.
• The Sandman:
  • Expiry of the Endless appears as a Perky Goth daughter, just in reality, she is a immortal embodiment of the concept of decease itself. Needless to say, she knows quite a chip of magic.
  • Death's younger blood brother, Dream of the Countless, is a male person example. He'southward the personification of dreams in the form of a stake human being in a black trenchcoat with a blackness, untameable mop of hair a la Neil Gaiman.
• Black Alice from Secret Half-dozen is a Goth-styled anti-hero with the power to effectively steal the powers of any magical being and temporarily utilize them as her ain. She quit the team after refusing to join them in Hell, though.
• In Stormwatch PHD, Black Betty is a Perky Goth who also happens to be a powerful mystic.
• The Unbelievable Gwenpool side character The Terrible Eye (real proper name: Sarah) is a goth equally shown past that chosen name lonely. She is also the wizard of the group, first thanks to a magical headpiece which turned out to exist an Amplifier Artifact when she actually got into a magic school to develop her ain powers.

    Fan Works

• Codex Equus has Princess Wintertime Opera. While she didn't start wearing gothic brawl gowns until she became a professional musician in adulthood, she was already a talented user of dark magic, something she discovered when she was an angry teenage filly bent on giving her tormentors hell for bullying her. In fact, the fact that she was talented in dark magic worried a lot of people since her nascency begetter, War Rock, was a villain who also used dark magic, and both feared and expected her to plough out like War Rock. Fortunately, Luminiferous and Blue Suede Heartstrings would intervene and help guide her onto a ameliorate path, influencing her to utilize dark magic for good and eventually Arise every bit the Alicorn goddess of Dark Magic.

    Film — Live-Activeness

• In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Scarlet Witch's look plays this upward, she's a pale-skinned, dark-haired girl who wears black dresses and nails, ripped-stockings, and ornamental rings. Her eerie Psychic Powers derived from the Mind Stone are, according to Word of God, magical in nature. Afterwards joining the Avengers, her appearances in Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War tone it down a bit. She notwithstanding wears the nighttime dresses and jewelry, only it doesn't have quite the same border.
• The film version of Abominable has a Goth witch (played by Mary-Kate Olsen) blasphemous the pb to "Embrace the suck," effectively turning him into the most rad Beast ever.
• Downplayed with Lydia in Beetlejuice. Apparently being a Goth is enough to get effectually ghosts' Invisible to Normals dominion.
• Kim in Volume of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, a goth chick who turns out to take more genuine psychic powers than Erica, the actual Wiccan among the group.
• The Craft, every bit mentioned higher up, wherein teenage rebellion and Goth style leads to magical terrorism.
• Good Luck Chuck has the titular Chuck (played by Dane Melt) cursed to accept female troubles all his life by a Goth chick he turned down for a circular of "Seven Minutes in Sky" during his youth.
• Bellatrix Lestrange (played by Helena Bonham Carter) wears distinctly Gothic wear in the Harry Potter series along with black corsets and dark eyeliner and lipstick. And, like her literary analogue, she's the Number Two of the Death Eaters as an extremely powerful witch well-versed in the Dark Arts and deadly in a duel. Her favorite curse likewise happens to exist the Cruciatus expletive.
• The Hot Chick: Downplayed. Afterwards the main character, a ditzy Alpha Bowwow teenager, all of a sudden switches bodies with a local cheat, she immediately suspects the goth chick in school to be responsible. She's non, though she does admit that she tried to curse her with dandruff, brand her pilus autumn out and give her smaller boobs (which means that she attempted magic, but failed—most probable because the only known supernatural affair in this movie's universe are the earrings that transform the bodies of two people into the other person's appearance. Which is kind of ironic, due to how the main plot is caused by in-universe magic).
• The Rage: Carrie two is a particularly notable instance of this, given that, in the original 1976 film (and in the book information technology was based on), not only was the telekinetic teen outcast Carrie White not a goth in the slightest, simply her ultra-religious upbringing meant that, exterior her prom dress during the finale (which is pink, at least before it gets covered in blood), she wore extremely small-scale, world-colored clothes. Some of her tormentors wore far more blackness than she did, particularly the Greaser Delinquent Billy and his friends. By 1999, all the same, goths had become the stereotypical teen outcasts, oftentimes associated with witchcraft and Psychic Powers in the popular imagination, and so the new protagonist Rachel Lang was made a sexy goth chick.
• In The Witch Files, Jules is the goth daughter who introduces the other girls to magic, and induces them to form a coven. She claims the women in her family have a history of spell casting stretching back to pre-Revolutionary times.

    Literature

• Discworld:
  • Some of the immature witches, especially in the Tiffany Aching serial, attempt to look and act more gothic. Tiffany herself is an exception (she prefers to vesture blue and green) but Annagramma's coven are obsessed with black dress and occult jewelry, as was Diamanda'due south clique in Lords and Ladies (one of whom also had a skull tattoo — except it was in ordinary ink and she always washed it off before her mum saw). In this case the trope might actually be inverted; knowing magic (or wanting to learn it) makes y'all Goth.
  • If what Susan Sto Helit does counts equally magic, then she's also an example, at least in Soul Music. Although in her example it's an Enforced Trope; she doesn't want to look like "idiots who write verse in their rooms and dress similar vampires and are vegetarians actually", merely plainly a certain amount of gothyness is required when your powers come up from being Death'southward granddaughter.
• Molly from The Dresden Files. Played With in that she actually ditches more of the Goth trappings as she develops her magic more.
• Leonor from the Costa Rican children's novel of the aforementioned name. She knows a couple of spells fifty-fifty every bit an 11 twelvemonth-old, though in her instance it helps that her grandma is a witch, to her best friend Nazareth's dismay.
• Subverted in the Shivers novel Ghosts Of Camp Massacre. The goth girl claims to know white magic, and uses it to attempt and summon the ghosts that are haunting Camp Wil-He-Waha. While the ghosts do announced, information technology is made articulate that they came on their ain and were not summoned past the goth girl blathering nonsense and throwing some kind of sparkly dust effectually in the hope that something would happen (null does, since the ghosts were only capable of interacting with the protagonist).

    Live-Action Idiot box

• A self-described witch in an episode of Start Wave looks like a typical goth. While her "powers" are initially only shown in the class of blistering cookies that poison Gua but are harmless to humans. She claims to take plant the recipe in an old book, which then gets destroyed by a Gua. However, during Cade's fight with the Gua, the girl and a few other girls use some sort of ritual that peradventure causes the Gua to be split in half by a falling axe.
• In The Haunting Hour, in that location's a typical-looking goth daughter in the episode "Incorrect Number", but she really has an uncle and grandmother who use magic and such. She knows of this, and uses their help to eventually delete a video that Steffani is trapped in, deleting Steffani forever.
• Subverted in The Librarians 2014; when dark magic breaks out during a Stem off-white, the initial suspects are a agglomeration of goths who've been hanging around despite not having exhibits, merely information technology later on turns out that they're merely there considering their leader is secretly pursuing ane of the participants.
• Gender-flipped in The Mighty Boosh episode "Nannageddon". Vince (excuse me, Obsidian Blackbird McNight) borrows some magic from Naboo in order to impress some goth girls and prove he's a real goth. He accidentally summons a formidable demon.
• Victorious: Jade is a Goth who shows some interest in the occult. Notably, she joins True cat and Tori on their trip to pay their last respects to a dead actress because she believes she'll be able to blot the extra'southward essence.

    Professional Wrestling

• Subverted by The Coven of Shine Wrestling. The only "goth" of the group is Chelsea Durden, while the "secret" knowledge they know that you lot do not comes from the witch Eric Torres. The Coven all take way cues from Durden, however, making them await more than similar a gothic gathering than a "coven".

    Tabletop Games

• The Hollow Ones from Mage: The Rise are often shorthanded equally the "Goth Tradition." While their history is linked to subcultures reaching back to the flappers and Bright Immature Things, and their magic mode is basically chaos magic, they're tightly linked in with Goths in the present day.
• The Matriarch (Lilian Merle Corvus) from Sentinels of the Multiverse was a normal child going through a pretty normal teenage rebellious phase, and yes, was pretty much a goth. Until she constitute a feathered masquerade mask at a flea market, bought information technology, and gained The Beastmaster abilities related to Creepy Crows from it, and became one of the game'south difficulty 4 villains, a honor she shares with The Chairman (an unaging mafia dominate with an ground forces of thugs, assassins, informants and kleptomaniacal police officers from the wretched hive that is Rook Metropolis), and Iron Legacy, a Superman expy turned Knight Templar.
  • The Harpy (The Matriarch, post Heel–Face Turn), a hero from the aforementioned game, is The Beastmaster commanding Clever Crows and using eldritch magic to deal Infernal damage to villains while trying to atone for her misdeeds.

    Video Games

• BlazBlue: Rachel Alucard is dressed in black Elegant Gothic Lolita and has a snarky personality to boot. She's a chief sorceress as well as i of the few people in The 'Verse to use bodily magic.
• The resident Perky Goth Ophelia from Brütal Legend shows aptitude for the heavy metallic magic. Justified by the setting, as goths seem to be a separate ethnicity descended from the members of the ill-fated Black Tear Rebellion, who drank from the Sea of Black Tears and were granted ancient powers.
• Final Fantasy X has Lulu, a cold Black Mage with an apparently gothic-inspired outfit who begins the game with elemental spells and goes on to learn many other black magic spells provided you lot stay on her Sphere Grid Path.
• Tharja is the darkest of the females in Fire Emblem Awakening and normally brooding and grim. She is a Dark Mage afterward all, and can bandage night magic along with standard elemental spells.
  • Rhajat in Fire Keepsake Fates is a Dark Magical Girl who is very similar in appearance, personality and abilities to Tharja, and indeed is strongly implied to be either her reincarnation or past self.
• Golf Story: The Oak Estate sections feature a duo of goth girls who use magic to listen-control an ground forces of mole rats and raise an ground forces of skeletons. They besides recruit the player to help them defeat a wizard ruling the Oak Manor area so they can usurp his role.
• Miranda, Morinth, and Jack are the gothier ladies of Mass Consequence 2 and all have biotic powers. The gothiness is especially evident in their Loyalty uniforms.
• In the interval between the two ObsCure games, Shannon, who was the Girl Side by side Door in the first game, gains both gothiness (including both a Hotter and Sexier makeover and a level in jerkass) and, due to her exposure to the mortifilia constitute, magic powers assuasive her to control her infection and suck away dark auras blocking her path.
• Persona 3 has Chidori, who'southward dressed in a white gothic wearing apparel and has a lonely and icy temperament to match. She has Psychic Powers to go along with the Persona summoning that the main bandage possesses.
• Pokémon
  • Gothita, Gothorita and Gothitelle are a family of feminine-looking Psychic type Pokémon, with designs based on both goth fashion and fortune tellers. 25 percent of them are male though.
  • The female person "Hex Maniac" trainers in Pokémon Ten and Y might be one of these.
• Feli from Puyo Puyo. The series already features the characters doing magic spells a lot, only Feli is unique in that she specializes in divination and fortune telling.
• While Henrietta from S Park generally averts this likewise some very occasional dabbling with her other goth friends, it's played straight in South Park: The Fractured but Whole when she's added every bit a political party member in the DLC From Sunset to Casa Bonita. She uses Satanic magic to buff and heal her allies in various ways and burn her enemies with cigarette smoke (though it's uncertain if that particular ability is magical in nature), and her Limit Break has her summon Satan himself to steal her enemies' souls, damaging all enemies and healing all allies.
• Oka Ruto from the PC stealth sandbox game Yandere Simulator is a gothy-looking graphic symbol, fascinated past the paranormal and leader of the Occult Order. In fact, 1 of her club'south activities is trying to summon a demon. While she's certainly interested in information technology, whether or not she really knows magic is unknown... but according to the Undertale-styled battle with her, she does.
• Raven from Twisted Metal: Blackness practices tarot cards and gets revenge on the bullies who killed her all-time friend past using voodoo dolls.

    Web Comics

• Cool Cat Studio features Liz, a Goth Daughter who naturally has magical powers and knows everything well-nigh supernatural creatures.
• Critter Coven has Inkshadowblood, the choked teenager who dresses in black, ruddy, and studs, and doesn't have the best grasp of what magic(yard) actually entails.''
• In Gunnerkrigg Court, the Perky Goth Jenny is an apprentice witch who tin can use Geometric Magic to produce things like Tracking Spells... and land mines.
• Rose Lalonde, one of the main characters of Homestuck is a gothic young girl (though not to Elegant Gothic Lolita levels) who studies the lore of the Noble Circle of Horrorterrors in her spare time, and eventually comes around to actually channeling their power through a pair of wands.
• Scary Become Circular: The trope is averted and somewhat deconstructed by Perky Goth Esther de Groot. She'due south not notably any more than effective than anyone else at dealing with the Fantasy Kitchen Sink weirdness of the comic's stories, and when she and her fellow The Male child have a brief run-in with fairies on a trip to Wales, and he comments on her (lack of) response, she responds with embarrassment and irritation.

  The Boy: I thought y'all were dark, Esther. Of the night and hip to spells.
  Esther: Um... Fairies...
  The Male child: Yes?
  Esther:...are like wasps in camisoles.

• The Wotch: Cassie, whose earlier dabbling with magic often concluded with Anne having to bail her and the others out of danger while trying to avoid being outed as The Wotch.

    Web Original

• Midnight Mares has Nightfall Nod, the local Nightmare Moon expy. She's an Emo Teen Nightmare Goddess with a dyed black mane with a pink streak, a calavera skull hairpin, and wears a glow-in-the-dark skeleton costume from the neck downwardly.
• During the "Dark Nella" arc, The Nostalgia Chick invokes the trope (and uses information technology as an alibi to review The Craft) by picking up a random Goth girl off the street to endeavour to fix Nella via magic.
• In a educatee-created CGI short film chosen The Colors of Evil, a goth daughter named Vivian summons a demon in an attempt to go rid of the annoying Alpha Bowwow bullying her.
• Whateley Universe: A number of Sorcerer students ^note whose power naturally inclines them to collecting Essence, often combined with some sort of inherent magical ability fit this to varying degrees, most notably Carmilla and Nacht (with Maledicta being more of a ship-up of the character type). Several of the non-Wiz Goths want to learn magic, such equally Screech, and are frustrated that the Mystic Arts department generally refuses to teach magic to anyone who doesn't have that mutant ability and/or some other existing mystical ability.

    Western Animation

• In 1 episode of Craig of the Creek the principal trio meets Tabitha and Courtney, two teenage goth girls who hang around their stump at night. The kids run across them lighting candles and reading tarot cards and jump to the conclusion they're witches. What'south worse, one of the girls decides to mess with them and tells the kids they're cursed, which coincidentally proceeds the 3 of them having a chain of bad luck.
• Dylan from Golan the Insatiable was able to summon the titular animate being because of this.
• Ming-Hua from The Legend of Korra. She wears a slate-gray outfit, has a scrawny build and long stringy pilus that make her resemble an onryo, rarely displays whatsoever facial expression that'south not either "glower" or "malicious grin," and is prone to bitter snark. She'due south likewise the well-nigh overtly temperamental and vicious of the Red Lotus. Easily one of the near powerful waterbenders in the series, she's also the merely bough shown to not even need the use of arms—just too, seeing equally she was born without them—and tin can create as many h2o whips and ice blades as she wants.
• Lost in Oz: Goths probably don't be in Oz, but West, the group'southward resident witch, certainly ticks virtually of the boxes: dresses in black, in a style that is a mixture of one-time and modern; has violet hair worn in a punkish; pale skin; Deadpan Snarker...
• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has Queen Chrysalis. She has an eerie and broken appearance that sticks out like a sore thumb in a cheerful cartoon and is a capable magic caster, able to shapeshift and fire magic beams from her horn.
• In 1 episode of The Owl House, a goth daughter that Vee (in Luz's disguise) met, but all she does is a Tarot reading for Vee. That said, the Tarot reading is quite authentic. Both Vee and Luz are running away from a past that is now catching upward to them, and that their regrets may soon overwhelm them.
• Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja plays with this during season 2. Julian (who's a male example, mind you) wants to be a wizard, but he kind of sucks at it. He eventually get his easily on the Sorcerer's magical orb that Randy and Howard had previously snagged, which does grant him legitimate mystical powers. He's brought back to normal, but in the procedure of this, an evil version of Julian is created, who has powers of his own.
• Subverted in Scooby-Doo! and the Witch'due south Ghost. The Hex Girls (an eco-goth rock ring) "ritual" turns out to be for testify and the "potion" they were seen making was simply an herbal handling for their vocal cords. Double Subverted when one of them turns out to be part Wiccan, which is treated like a Mage Species.
• Invoked and subverted in the The Simpsons episode "Rednecks and Broomsticks" where Lisa befriend iii immature wicca. When the 3 teen girls are arrested, of a sudden, half the boondocks becomes blind and the girls are blamed. Turn out that they are innocent; some of the hillbillies' moonshine mixed in with the water that goes into the reservoir the town uses and thus caused them to go bullheaded.
• Teen Titans (2003) has two notable examples.
  • Raven fits the typical traits of a Goth with her reclusiveness and taste in dark things in general, but at that place are circumstances that push her to human action in a gothy way. As the Half-Homo Hybrid daughter of Trigon she can use spells demonic and magical in nature.
  • Jinx also has the general fashion of goth and a gloomy outlook on life in spite of her perkiness, and tin can employ magical hexes that cause bad luck.
• A somewhat less surprising (and less "rebellious", as it'due south really the "family unit business") example is Triana Orpheus of The Venture Bros.. The Goth girl daughter of necromancer extraordinaire Dr. Byron Orpheus, Triana is studying magic with her mother, also an accomplished sorceress.

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