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|first_appearance=''{{fandom|finalfantasy|Final Fantasy}}'' (1987, ''Final Fantasy'' franchise)<br>''[[Mario Hoops 3-on-3]]'' ([[List of games by date#2006|2006]], ''Super Mario'' franchise)

|latest_appearance=''{{fandom|finalfantasy|Samurai Rising}}'' (2016, ''Final Fantasy'' franchise)<br>''[[Mario Sports Mix]]'' ([[List of games by date#2010|2010]], ''Super Mario'' franchise)

|latest_portrayal={{wp|Bianca Allen}} (2010)

'''White Mage''' is a job class from the ''{{fandom|finalfantasy|Final Fantasy series|Final Fantasy}}'' series. They are typically characterized by their long, hooded red and white robes, and practice White Magic (consisting largely of healing and support magic). A White Mage character appears in two ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]]'' games developed by [[Square Enix]]: ''[[Mario Hoops 3-on-3]]'' and ''[[Mario Sports Mix]]''; in both games, White Mage is depicted as a cheerful woman similar in appearance to Peach and Daisy, wearing a shorter dress and tiara not present in the ''Final Fantasy'' series, though she resembles {{fandom|finalfantasy|Lenna Charlotte Tycoon}}'s appearance as a White Mage in ''{{fandom|finalfantasy|Final Fantasy V}}'' and {{fandom|finalfantasy|Shirma}} from the ''{{fandom|finalfantasy|Chocobo series|Chocobo}}'' games due to their similar pink hair and green eyes. In ''Mario Hoops 3-on-3'', she is portrayed by Noriko Iwahara, but Bianca Allen takes over the role in ''Mario Sports Mix''.

In Japanese and internal files of ''Mario Hoops 3-on-3'' and ''Mario Sports Mix'', she is named "{{fandom|finalfantasy|Shirma|Shiroma}}", which is an abbreviated form of the White Mage class's Japanese name, "shiro madōshi". The same applies to her partner, [[Black Mage]], whom both games call "{{fandom|finalfantasy|Croma|Kuroma}}".

White Mage is a woman with the same height and similar build as Peach. She has fair skin, green eyes and swift ruby-pink hair with a large bang which obscures her right eye, much like [[Rosalina]]'s, as well as matching lipstick. In the ''Super Mario'' sports games, she appears wearing a short white hooded dress with the red triangle pattern that is characteristic of White Mages on the hem, hood and sleeves. She wears a silver intricate tiara with a round red jewel at the center, a red choker, aqua teardrop earrings and a faceted brooch of the same color, and red athletic high heels with curled tips.

Winning a silver trophy in the Rainbow Tourney on the Hard difficulty in ''Mario Hoops 3-on-3'' unlocks an alternate costume for White Mage, changing her hair color to purple, and making the red parts of her dress and heels magenta, while her chest brooch becomes red and her choker remains the same color.

In ''Mario Sports Mix'', an alternate outfit for her can also be unlocked by clearing a certain mission on the Flower Cup, clearing the Star Road five times, or by using the White Mage twenty times. This alternate outfit changes her heels and dress to icy pale blue with a red brooch and the pattern becomes white and more rounded, along with light green earrings and white laced stockings, with her choker once again remaining the same color. Her hair also turns white and her irises are colored red, which are both traits of {{wp|albinism}}.

White Mage has control of white magic, which are spells that support her allies. She has one attack spell, called ''[[Holy Shot|Holy]]'', that appears as her special attack in the ''Super Mario'' franchise. The Holy Shot consists of an attack magic that in ''Mario Hoops 3-on-3'' was blue, and in ''Mario Sports Mix'' is white. She also has low Power stats. Also in ''Mario Sports Mix'', in Volleyball and Dodgeball, White Mage uses white magic circles to catch the ball. In Volleyball she can use a veil to block the ball.

|JapM=Abbreviation of「白魔導士」(''shiro madōshi''), the Japanese name for the White Mage class

|Fre=Mage blanc

|FreM=White mage