Tuesday, December 28, 2010

The Coven's Eleven

What do all these girls have in common? Well, they're total goths. They wear blacks and violets (except for Gwen). And they're all the main characters of their cult-hit shows. We're starting with number one......

Samantha "Sam" Manson from Danny Phantom. She's the leading female, being Danny Phantom's goth best friend and eventual love interest. She has an unholding interest in the subliminal and netherworldly, but combines this with an outspoken attitude on vegetarianism, animal rights and environmentalism. Her personality is seemingly less dreary than the stereotypical "goth" persona usually shown. Based on how she conducts herself, it would be fairer to say that she labels herself a goth more as an outlet for her independence and individuality. Sam is often the most pragmatic of the group, but she can be bossy at times and very determined to stand up for what she believes in. But she's also very caring and jolly towards her friends, Danny and Tucker. She always gets them out of trouble, and if she's in trouble, she can do it by herself anyway. It was hinted that she had a psychic connection to Danny. Her parents are actually super wealthy but she kept this a secret so she won't have "fake friends". Besides, she always clash with her parents and their colorful personality. To be honest, she's the very character who introduced me to the culture of goth.
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Gwen from Total Drama Island. This show is just freakin' awesome. Though she hated it, she auditioned for the show due to a dare of her brother. And so Gwen became a member of the Screaming Gophers and one of their strongest competitors. Actually, she made it to the final two. In some endings, she won the the final challenge. She also became the team captain of the Screaming Gaffers. Because of her lonely goth attitude towards other people, she was dubbed  the "weird goth girl" and other nicknames like "death mask" by the mean girls especially Heather. But still, Gwen is well liked by the other contestants. They think that she is pessimistic, which she isn't, however, she steadfastly refuses to be cheerful. Truly, Gwen is not a bitter person, but rather guarded and cautious about whom she lets into her life. Her love interest is the casual yet wimpy Trent, the music guy. Their relationship is very much the favorite. 

Cassandra from Hercules: The Animated Series. First off, the real mythological Cassandra is a Trojan princess. Apollo loved her so much that he gave her the gift of prophecy. But she rejected him so he gave her a curse that no one will ever believe her. This was kept in the cartoon adaptation. But to add to her goth personality, Cassandra always predicts the worst things to happen. She usually stays in a trance with spinning eyes and chants her prophecy. Since no one wants to believe her, she became anti-social and became friends with the dorks, Hercules and Icarus. A running gag is that when Cassandra makes sarcastic comments, Hercules and Icarus listen, but when she has visions, they rarely believe her. Icarus (like BeastBoy and Irwin) loves the goth girl who doesn't answer to his affections. But Cassandra tolerates this so she can still keeps her friends. Though she hanged out in a goth club, it seemed none of the goths are close to her.
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Onyx Von Trollenburg from Trollz. You remember those cute little Troll dolls with crazy hairdos? Well, they had a show with a modernized yet magical setting. It's about five teenage troll girls with enchanted gems on their belly buttons. With their magic, they battle forces of evil while dealing with their teenage life. Though the plot is very typical but if you watch the episodes, they're pretty awesome and unique. What's more awesome is that the group has a goth girl. Onyx owns a dark violet gem (like her namesake), shaped like a crescent moon. Her Ancient is Spinell, old Zirconia's husband. Being a goth, she's pretty tough, especially towards cheerleaders and guys standing on her way, always say the wittiest mock. She's kinda anti-social and only keeps her four friends. She's really bad at driving. But she loves poetry and excels in that class. Her love interest is even a poetic rocker named Flint. 

Yumi Yoshimura from Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. It's about the J-Pop duo of PUFFY but it's American made. The character designs are really cute and the stories are hilarious. There's a parody of Yu-Gi-Oh being Stu-Pi-Doh. The intro song even rocks. Yumi is the lead guitarist and, contrast to sweet and peppy drummer Ami, she's sarcastic, cynical and punk. Her style is grunge, metal, punk and of course, goth. She sports a t-shirt with a skull that follows her facial expression. It seems to have a mind of his own too.She has a sly pet black cat named Jang Keng. Being younger, Yumi is also more impetuous than Ami and rushes headlong into a decision before thinking. However, Yumi has a mature side, too, and sometimes reasons with Ami's childish obsession.
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Ingrid Third from Fillmore!. The show is genius. It's about solving crimes in a middle school, with the style of hard-boiled police dramas. Ingrid is Fillmore's partner in the Safety Patrol. Like him, she was a delinquent in the past. She was sent to a reform school in Nepal for an incident "involving a stinkbomb and pinata". She became "Public Enemy No.1" when she moved to X Middle School (though she and Fillmore found out who's the real culprit). She then became the smartest kid in X Middle School due to her photographic memory and is became very helpful in solving cases with Fillmore, even though she's a rookie. She's very determined, tough and understated.
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Lydia Deetz from Beetlejuice. Great movie, great cartoon (even there's a lot of changes). In the film, Beetlejuice was the antagonist, who ended up nearly marrying a disgusted Lydia. In the series, they are best friends, and Lydia, something of a social misfit in the living world, frequently visits him in the afterlife during her free time. She summons him in a longer ritual and wears a cobweb-patterned red pancho. She's in her preteens in the show but pretty much mature, well-mannered and friendly, especially towards the creatures of the Neitherworld. She's an amateur, but nonetheless, talented photographer, etymologist, seamstress and sketch artist artist with an innate affinity and love for all things gross, scary, weird and macabre, and who celebrates all that is "strange and unusual".
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Shareena Wickett from Detention. It's another short-livedold 90's show with a goth girl. It's about a bunch of kids with different personalities and looks who ends up in detention, coz they just want to make merry and mischief. Shareena is considered their leader against Miss Eugenia Kisskillya, the PE teacher and former military sergeant. Shareena is very free spirited and is not scared of standing up for herself and getting what she wants. She's sometimes sarcastic, moody and rude, and even manipulate other children to rebel with her. She hated pink (but she has a pet pig). She once released moths to eat the pink dress her cheerful mom bought for her.
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Misery from Ruby Gloom. Her mishaps are usually a combination of clumsiness and extraordinary bad luck. Evidently, these traits run in her family, as Misery has had relatives who have been present at every single major disaster in recorded history. Fortunately, her friends are all kindhearted enough to take this in stride. Misery spends most of the time in a state of detached apathy and with ever-present trails of tears running from her eyes. She does have tiny moments of happiness throughout the series, but unless they're few and far between, her bad luck rears its ugly head and strikes her down with a vengeance, usually in the form of lightning bolts. But during Friday the 13th, her bad luck gives her a break. She has a talent for singing, well when she's asleep. Otherwise, her singing comes out like banshee screams.
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Joan of Arc from Clone High. She's the clone of Jeanne d'Arc, a 15th century teenage girl who joined the French Army and was burned at a stake for heresy. Unlike the real saint, Joan is an agnostic, doesn't believe in a deity. Well, the rest of the clones do parody the historic figures. As for Joan, she's the goth bestfriend of Abe Lincoln, along with Gandhi. She's very bright, witty, ethical, feministic, vegan and outspoken. But she's full of angst, especially that she's in love with Abe, who's very clueless and instead, in love with Cleopatra. Joan has a tendency to erupt melodramatically into tears, usually when Abe ignores her advances. She doesn't have many friends, especially girls. But guys are attracted to her, especially JFK. She usually beats them up for this.
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Birch Small from My Life Me. It's a new animated series. Though it's drawn in manga style, it's still considered a cartoon, not anime, because of the animation style and westernized plots. Birch is a budding artist and a big fan of manga and anime (like the show's creator). She has problems surviving even one day in high school and her social life. She's the youngest and shortest in the class, so she's always the mismatched one, even among her three friends. Unlike the other cartoon goth girls, Birch is very timid and doesn't have that tough attitude like her skater friend, Sandra. But she's very determined to become a professional artist, even if she had to deal with distractions and confusions of teendom.

I know a lot of you are looking for Raven from Teen Titans
But I put her as number 1 under the category Dark Heroines.
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