Reflection and Analysis

Winx - A Different Take on Mitzi - and Bloom (2/14/22)

So, I want to talk about Mitzi and the history of Mitzi.

Episode 101

Let's say you're watching the 4kids version of the show. If you've seen this version we see Mitzi openly mocking Bloom's bike as being a piece of junk she's just gotten thus giving Bloom good reason to not be fond of Mitzi.

The problem is, if you watch Cinélume you actually get a different version completely. In this version Mitzi is offering to send a postcard to Bloom so she can see something new on vacation and Bloom's reason for calling Mitzi a show-off is because Mitzi just so happens to have gotten the scooter Bloom wanted and didn't get from her parents.

And let's remember that while in the 4kids version that Bloom wanted to get out of the garage so she could take care of Stella, in Cinélume we see Bloom not wanting to have anything to do with the flower shop that summer because it's just not cool to be stuck working your parents shop and helping the buissness out while getting pissed off that her parents didn't buy her that scooter she wanted.

Talk about ungrateful. Yet, how does this potentially effect how we should view Mitzi's character later on? I personally think it does as the first episode of Cinélume sets it up as Mitzi and Bloom actually having been friends before she left.

Oh, and there's a scene deleted from the 4kids version where Bloom fighting the troll is interrupting Mitzi's television time.

Episode 113

And right off the back there are differences between the two scenes.

4K – In this version we see Mitzi right off the back being antagonistic towards Bloom and is the one to bring up the rumor (one everyone suspects in this version that Mitzi started herself) that she's been sent to reform school, military school or something similar and Mitzi is threatening to find out her secret.

C – I'll freely admit Mitzi isn't nice in this version, but her not being nice to Bloom is mild in comparison, yet something else to remember is Bloom took off to Alfea doing the Mary Sue thing. By this I mean she drops all friends and connections in Gardenia for her better faerie friends because they're so amazing!

No, seriously—I actually can't blame Mitzi for being upset when she sees Bloom again, and then Bloom completely blows her off. Mitzi is simply trying to find out where she's been all this time, even why she's left and Bloom's answer is that she's simply switched schools. Which, people don't simply switch schools. It is then that Mitzi says this.

"Why? Gardenia High School was too difficult for you? Where did your parents send you anyways? To a school for slow learners?"

Which, I know at first glance this line sounds quite cruel, but remember Bloom's been blowing Mitzi—who is obviously also a former friend prior to Bloom making new friends, off. And since they were friends it doesn't make sense that Bloom wouldn't tell her or any of her other friends why she'd switch schools.

Unless of course it was for special needs reasons.

Of course, we know from the start Bloom doesn't consider Mitzi a friend, but Mitzi doesn't know this. Mitzi doesn't at this time know that Bloom has new friends either, but I can't blame Mitzi for not believing Bloom when she says it's a very special school, because wouldn't a friend tell a friend about a special school, yet Bloom puts all the blame for Mitzi not believing her on Mitzi, rather than on the fact – oh, maybe Bloom's unable to tell her the truth.

Which would be an interesting angle, that Bloom can't tell her friends which puts distance between her and Mitzi, her friend from Gardinia

Yet, Mitzi's very question also brings up whether Bloom is special needs. By this I mean her being a slow learner. It's something Bloom's friends in Gardinia is all to aware of and something Bloom would honestly want to get away from image wise as Bloom would obviously not have accepted that part of herself.