Puella Magi Kazumi Magica/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Amnesiac Hero]]: {{spoiler|Subverted; being a clone, she actually might not have any memories at all. Umika is making them for her.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Artificial Human]]}}

** {{spoiler|Makes sense cause she is made out of witch parts}}

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: In her [[Magical Girl]] costume.

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

* {{spoiler|[[Instant Armor]]: In Chapter 9 she covers her arms in a metallic substance that lets her block a giant pair of scissors.}}

* [[Kick Chick]]

* [[Muggle Best Friend]]: Averted.

* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: {{spoiler|In backstory. During her attempted [[Psychic Assisted Suicide]] she is holding Miyuki's lily of the valley plant.}}

* [[Whip It Good]]: Her weapon is a riding crop that [[Lightning Gun|shoots lightning]].

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* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: Show up when she {{spoiler|loses it over Saki's wound.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Saki gets a tiny cut on her cheek while saving Mirai. Mirai responds by cutting the witch who hurt Saki in half.}}

** {{spoiler|[[Killer Rabbit]]: They bite a witch's skin off with their teeth.}}

** {{spoiler|[[Fusion Dance]] / [[Make My Monster Grow]]: She can also make them fuse into a giant bear.}}

* [[Expy]]: {{spoiler|Of [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|Homura]]. They had the same two-tailed hairstyle and glasses in their backstories, and both were bullied by classmates. She also shares a similar backstory with [[Puella Magi Oriko Magica|Kirika]]. Both were girls ostracized by their class and without any friends who lied to themselves that they weren't lonely before making contracts, and are somewhat [[Yandere]] for another girl they are friends with. They also both use bladed weapons (claws and a sword, respectively).}}

* {{spoiler|[[Friendless Background]] / [[Loners Are Freaks]]: In backstory, she was basically ostracized by her entire class.}}

* [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]]: Has a teddy bear museum, and carries around one after {{spoiler|using an army of them to attack a witch.}}

** {{spoiler|Later we find that she had an entire room full of teddy-bears.}}

* [[Heart Symbol]] / [[Sigil Spam]]: Hearts are featured heavily as accents on her costume, weapon, {{spoiler|bear summons and on her school uniform. Possibly [[Foreshadowing]] her [[Yandere]] streak.}}

* {{spoiler|[[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: In backstory.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Little Miss Badass]] / [[Badass Adorable]]: Her weapon is a heart shaped wand. Her magic lets her summon cutesy teddy-bears that can fuse into a giant bear by hugging each other. ''Do not underestimate any of them.''}}

* {{spoiler|[[Nerd Glasses]]: In backstory.}}

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]

* {{spoiler|[[Room Full of Crazy]]: That room full of teddy-bears in her backstory is a tiny bit disturbing.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Security Blanket]]: In backstory, her teddy-bears were the only "friends" she had.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Taking the Bullet]]: The first time she was trapped in a witch's barrier, she shielded Saki from a familiar with her own body.}}

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* {{spoiler|[[And Then John Was a Zombie|And Then Satomi Was A Witch]]: As of chapter 15.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Oh dear...}}

* {{spoiler|[[Blood Is the New Black]]: At the end of chapter 14.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic BSOD]]: Freaks out after Nico turns into a witch and dies. Apparently gets better when another Nico shows up.}}

** {{spoiler|[[Freak Out]]: It's implied that the reason she's trying to kill Kazumi is because she just ''snapped''.}}

* [[Impossibly Low Neckline]]: In her magical girl outfit.

** [[Cleavage Window]]

* [[Speaks Fluent Animal]]: She wished to talk to animals, to help her become a veterinarian.

* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: {{spoiler|In backstory. During her attempted [[Psychic Assisted Suicide]] she is holding her dead cat's collar.}}

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* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]

* [[The Smart Girl]]

* {{spoiler|[[Slasher Smile]]: She has some really creepy expressions when she interacts with her "spare".}}

* {{spoiler|[[Stepford Smiler]]: When she smiles, anyway.}}

* [[The Stoic]]: Almost always has the same expression. {{spoiler|Even when an arrow is shot right through her arm.}}

* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: Weird example. {{spoiler|She keeps a copy of the news article about her [[I Just Shot Marvin in The Face|childhood accident]] on her PDA.}}

* [[Wham Line]]: {{spoiler|At the end of Chapter 17, she says something to the effect of "I can't allow you humans to kill Kazumi."}}

* [[Who Wears Short Shorts]]

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* {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Pawn]]: To Kyubey.}}

* [[Vapor Wear]]: Apparently doesn't wear any underwear beneath her magical girl costume.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: {{spoiler|After making a wish to ''become her dead friend'', she's seen laughing maniacally and drinking a witch's blood.}}

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]] / [[Too Many Belts]]: Her grade A, striped stockings are held up by belts, of all things.

* {{spoiler|[[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: Doubly so. First she becomes a witch because she used too much of her magic healing people. Second is her wish, which was to cure her friend Airi's illness. When Yuuri becomes a witch, Airi goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against the magical girls that destroyed Yuuri's witch form, culminating in Airi becoming a witch herself.}}

* [[Nonuniform Uniform]]: She wears those striped stockings even while wearing her school uniform.

* {{spoiler|[[Posthumous Character]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Rapunzel Hair]]}}

** {{spoiler|[[The Collector]]: ...and the Pleiades are next on her list.}}

* [[Detached Sleeves]]: In magical girl form. {{spoiler|Both of them.}}

* [[Hair Decorations]]

* [[Expy]]: Ayase has a physical resemblance to [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|Kyoko]], as well as a similar introduction.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Souju means {{spoiler|twin trees}}.

* [[Mysterious Watcher]]: Beginning of Chapter 7.

* [[Playing With Fire]]: {{spoiler|Ayase}}

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]

* [[Say It With Hearts]]: {{spoiler|Ayase}}

* {{spoiler|[[Sharing a Body]]}}

* [[Strange Girl]]: {{spoiler|Ayase}}

* {{spoiler|[[Two Siblings in One]]: By virtue of two soul gems. Again, we're not sure if they're really siblings.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Your Soul Is Mine]]: Apparently they need to collect Soul Gems to co-exist in the same body.}}

* [[Expy]]: Resembles {{spoiler|[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Clow Reed]]. They both wished for their loved ones to open their eyes one more time.}}

* [[The Gunslinger]]: {{spoiler|Although she fights with a cross, it's shown that she had a spell that pulls guns out of her hat which she uses to equip the future Pleiades Saints. She likely knows this spell because the first magical girl she met was [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|Mami Tomoe.]]}}

* [[Parental Abandonment]] {{spoiler|/ [[Conveniently an Orphan]]}}: {{spoiler|Before she became a magical girl she lived alone with her grandmother when she wasn't studying abroad. Later her grandmother died.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Posthumous Character]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Sink or Swim Mentor]]: Surprisingly, to the rest of the Saints. She might be saved them from jumping to their death, but she deliberately let them fend off the familiars by themselves when they still ordinary humans to test their desire of staying alive a moment after their attempted suicide.}}

* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: {{spoiler|Her original set of earring bells came from her deceased grandmother. She actually lost them, but received another pair from Saki.}}

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* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: When he lost his shop in a bad business deal, he decides to ''blow up a mall''.

* [[The One Guy]]: Literally the only man or boy that has any role in the series.

** [[The Cameo]]: He appears in a flashback in Chapter 5.

** {{spoiler|[[The Bus Came Back]]: We see him again for real in Chapter 6, and again in chapter 16.}}

A policewoman who set Tachibana up to take the fall for a bombing while under the control of an Evil Nut. {{spoiler|She became a police officer in order to investigate magical girls after her school friend, a magical girl herself, disappeared.}}

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** {{spoiler|[[The Bus Came Back]]: She makes a major return in chapter 16, apparently without any memories of what happened to her at the Misaki house.}}