Puella Magi Madoka Magica/Tropes P-T

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Late Arrival Spoiler Warning: Puella Magi Madoka Magica is one of the most popular anime franchises in the anime fandom as of the Winter 2011 season. It also has a Wham! Line roughly every episode. In other words, there are a great deal of SPOILERS below—most marked, some unmarked, but all of which will ruin your enjoyment of the story. Avoiding these pages is highly suggested for those who have not seen the show.

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  • Parental Abandonment: Subverted with Madoka who actually has a nice happy family, but played straight with every other magical girl.
    • Mami's and Kyoko's are dead, Kyoko's killed from the one she gave her wish to.
    • Homura appears to live alone; the nameplate of her residence only has her name, much like Mami's. She is also conspicuously by herself when seen in the hospital, and seems to be the one filling out the forms to transfer to another school. The implication is that she's Conveniently an Orphan.
    • Sayaka presumably has them, but the only mention they get is when we hear Madoka talking to one on the phone in episode 8. Her mother appears in Episode 11, during her funeral.
  • Parody: Meduka Meguca
  • Peggy Sue: Homura Akemi
  • Phantom Zone: The nightmarish other world where Witches hide.
  • Pietà Plagiarism: Episode 9. Kyoko as Mary, Sayaka as Jesus.
  • Pimped-Out Dress: The magical girl outfits, of course. Also, look at Walpurgisnacht upside-down.
  • Pin-Pulling Teeth: When Kyoko grabs Homura to keep her from Flash Stepping, Homura pulls a flashbang grenade out of her Bag of Holding and pulls out the pin with her teeth, forcing Kyoko back.
  • Pink Girly Girl And Blue Tomboy: Madoka Kaname and Sayaka Miki.
  • Plot-Based Voice Cancellation: Homura yells some things to Madoka in the prologue scene in episode 1, but we don't hear it—and neither, apparently, does Madoka. We learn in episode 10 that she was begging her not to make the contract again.
  • Post Modernism: The witch barriers include many references to both Faust with the runes and writing, and classical artwork. Meanwhile the plot bears many similarities and even several Shout Outs to other anime such as "Evangelion", "Utena", and "Bokurano".
  • Power Crystal: Soul gems.
  • Power Dyes Your Hair: More or less. While the color doesn't change, the cast's hair colors become more vibrant in their Magical Girl forms (in Homura's case, it gets darker).
  • Power Glows: Madoka, in Episode 12. In one particular shot you might be tempted to wonder "Why is the sun pink"?
  • Power Source: Inverted with grief seeds: magical girls shove their corruption into it to prevent their soul gems from dimming.
  • Powered by a Forsaken Child: Kyubey's race decided they wanted to violate entropy. What better way than to use the transformation of pubescent magical girls into witches?
  • The Power of Friendship: Episode 10 shows this being played straight, in as much as the series can play it straight. The reason Homura keeps repeating things is because she wants to save Madoka. She outright says so at the end of her Day in The Limelight episode.

Homura: Repeat. I'll repeat it no matter how many times. I'll live through the same events again and again. Until I can find the only way out. The way to save you from despair. Madoka... My only friend. If... if it's for your sake... I don't mind being locked in this eternal maze!

    • Subverted hard in Episode 3. When Mami gets hyped up on the Power of Friendship during the battle with Charlotte, it leads to her fighting recklessly against the witch, as opposed to the cool, careful and methodical style of witch-killing she employed in the second episode, resulting in her freezing up when Charlotte goes One-Winged Angel, leading directly to her Cruel and Unusual Death.
  • The Presents Were Never From Santa: Sayaka (and Mami) falsely believe that their Magical Girl powers are righteous in nature, and people like Homura and Kyoko are misusing their powers for selfish interests. Of course they are wrong, their powers have nothing to do with morality. Not at all.
  • The Promise: In Episode 12, Madoka promises Homura that she will see her again someday. It's insinuated that all magical girls will be with Madoka after they run out of magic; she is shown collecting their grief and taking their soul gems.
  • Psychological Horror: The city is cold and sterile. An unspeakable atmosphere of alienation and helplessness permeates it. The witches are completely incomprehensible. Something about the supposedly-helpful mascot is very, very off. Magical Girl meets The World of Darkness namely, Changeling: The Lost; indeed.
  • Puni Plush: The characters are designed by Aoki Ume, the mangaka of Hidamari Sketch.
  • Pyrrhic Victory: Any timeline where Walpurgisnacht is beaten ends up with Mitakihara in ruins and the combatants either dead or having used so much magic that they'll shortly become witches themselves.

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  • Rain of Arrows: In the final episode, Madoka uses this twice, and both were awesome rains of arrows indeed!
    • First time - She fires a single arrow into the sky which instantly blows away the black storm clouds caused by Walpurgisnacht and reveals a brilliant blue sky. The arrow then bursts into an infinite number of arrows that shoot off in all directions. These arrows transcend space and time, and arrive to save every single magical girl, past, present and future, from their Fate Worse Than Death.
    • Second time - A galaxy-sized Madoka in what can only be described as her goddess form instantly fires thousands of arrows at a planet-sized witch -- the witch form of herself from the timeline that made the wish to save everyone, everywhere -- that is threatening to end the universe. Everything is blown away.
  • Rapunzel Hair: Ultimate Madoka
  • Read the Fine Print: Kyubey's contract. He actually doesn't let them know there's a fine print in the first place.
  • Real Place Background: Madoka's town is basically a hodgepodge of famous architecture.
  • Reconstruction: Effectively, the Cosmic Retcon Madoka unleashes in the Bittersweet Ending rewrites the rules into those of a more traditional Magical Girl 'verse. Monsters still exist in the form of demons and magical girls exist to fight them, but in the recreated universe they no longer turn into witches, which no longer exist at all (not even Kyubey remembers them, and he scoffs at Homura when she suggests that they did exist). Kyubey becomes a Deadpan Snarker assistant to Homura, who can now transfer her grief directly to him without using grief seeds (which no longer exist), while Madoka has Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence, having effectively become the patron goddess of all magical girls. On the other hand, the reason magical girls don't become witches is because Madoka causes them to vanish instead, while Kyubey's motivations and methods are basically unchanged ... creating a world that's less of a deconstruction, but not entirely back to the tropes that the show picked apart. Despite all this, Madoka is considered nonexistent in this new universe due to the extreme levels of the Retcon and because she is retconned recursively, but made herself into the hope of the Magical Girls in this universe.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Kyubey. Played up in Episode 8 to Irisu Syndrome levels.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: initially it seemed Madoka and Sayaka, but later episodes have clearly made it Kyoko and Sayaka. Madoka and Homura fit the bill as well.
  • Red Right Hand: Magical Girls have unique marks on the fingernail of their left middle finger. It can most prominently be seen on Homura and Kyoko in episode 7.
  • Red String of Fate: Fans have interpreted Madoka's giving her red ribbons to Homura as a variation on this trope.
  • Refusal of the Call:
    • Madoka and Sayaka are at first hesitant to make a contract with Kyubey, which is only worsened after they witness Mami's death. Sayaka doesn't become a magical girl until Episode 4, and Madoka is a plain Muggle until the final episode (which doesn't last long anyway).
    • In Episode 10, it turns out that what is actually going on is that Madoka would have Jumped At the Call if Homura had not stopped her or Kyubey every time.
  • Regular Caller: In the form of Kyubey, who tries to get Sayaka and Madoka to make wishes at least once an episode, often in the most pushy, manipulative manner possible. He succeeds with Sayaka after waiting until the exact moment that her friend hit the Despair Event Horizon, to say nothing about what he did to get Mami to sign up.
    • He finally succeeds in the latter in Episode 12, but he was too clever by half. By explaining to Madoka the true story of the history of magical girls, he inspires her to perform a Cosmic Retcon ... and she's powerful enough to force him to grant the wish, much to his surprise -- this is notably the only time in the entire series that Kyubey expresses any emotion on more than a superficial level.
  • Relationship Values: Crosses over with The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life. A very good premise of the plot is the questioning of why Madoka wants to become a Magical Girl, or why anyone would want to do so. Homura brings this topic up so much, it's almost her Catch Phrase whenever you see them together. Kyoko and Mami learned this the hard way, and suffered because of their misunderstanding.
  • Resurrective Immortality: Kyubey can come back every time he's killed and devours his old body.
  • Retconjuration/RetGone: Madoka's wish causes Witches to cease to exist, by Madoka causing magical girls to vanish before becoming witches. This also makes her Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence with the cost of erasing every trace of her existence, except Homura's memories. It's insinuated that magical girls at the end of their lives also see her, and she can interact with them as a form of guardian angel. Her little brother also remembers her.
  • The Right of a Superior Species: Kyubey plays with this trope. He turned vunerable teenage girls into magical girls in order to fight witches, but doesn't tell them that he does so by turning them into Liches. Then the girls find out that if they don't keep their soul gem pure, they become witches too, and it then it turns out he's doing all this to collect energy to fight the heat death of the universe. He justifies it by wanting to prevent said heat death, and by the fact that his kind has been assisting humanity since the stone age. All this while subtly implying that his race regards humanity the way humanity regards cattle. However, Kyubey doesn't have emotions, so he doesn't do this because he thinks he superior to humanity (or at least that's not the most important reason). He does it because they need to prevent the universe ending, and this is the most efficient way to do it.
  • Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Homura is able to remember Madoka after Madoka's ascension thanks to Madoka's ribbons. Madoka's little bro is able to remember Madoka because he doesn't understand how the worlds works, but as he learns he'll forget about her
  • Rule of Symbolism: Everything references Faust. Everything. In a subversion, Madoka wasn't the Faustian character. Sayaka was. Thanks to the Gretchen symbolism with Madoka and Homura's desire to protect her, Homura may represent Faust as well. Since different interpretations of Faust include both redemption and doom, one could argue both Homura and Sayaka are Faust.

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  • Sanity Slippage: Poor, poor Sayaka...
  • Say My Name: Particularly in Episode 8. Homura for Madoka. Then, at the end of the episode, Sayakaaaaaa! This is notable for the fact that Homura just showed a Not So Stoic moment and that Kyoko never calls anyone by name, but then proceeds to spend a good deal of Episode 9 calling for Sayaka.
  • Scenery Gorn: During Madoka's dream in Episode 1.
  • Scenery Porn: Everywhere. Including the above.
  • Schedule Slip: After the 2011 Sendai earthquake, SHAFT announced first that episodes 11 and 12 would be delayed a week, then upped that to "will air some time before April is over." Episodes 11 and 12 were eventually scheduled to air together on April 21. The last volume of the manga adaptation, and the manga spin-off Oriko Magica, have also been delayed.
    • The cut segments of the anime were later revealed, which explains the delay -- Showing refugees hiding in a school gym, and a collapsed building crushing someone's leg was just a little too close to home after the Sendai disaster in 2011.
  • Schoolgirl Lesbians: Invoked by Hitomi who is convinced that Madoka and Sayaka have the hots for each other. In her defense, Sayaka spent the first episode giving her that impression. It turns out that Hitomi may have been aiming for the same boy Sayaka was aiming for, which gave her a reason to hope that Sayaka was a lesbian or at least lesbian-leaning bi. Or that she just preferred Madoka over Kyousuke, so they wouldn't have to "fight" for him.
  • School Uniforms Are the New Black: The Mitakihara Junior High girls are rarely ever seen in something other than their uniforms and magical girl outfits. Partially averted in the manga, where Sayaka is shown in 'casual' outfits on several occasions.
  • Science Fantasy: Kyubey reveals that he and the other Incubators were created by an alien race to try and prevent (or stave off, anyway) the heat death of the universe. However, he also states explicitly that magical girls/witches really are magic and are not completely bound by logic.
  • Screening the Call: Homura is actively trying to prevent Madoka from becoming a magical girl.
  • Screw Destiny: Homura's primary goal is to save Madoka from dying horribly or becoming a witch, as it happened many times before in many different timelines.
    • Madoka's wish is essentially this codified.
  • Screw Yourself: In the Bait and Switch Credits, we see a pair of naked Madokas doing a very touchy-feely Transformation Sequence together.
  • Screwed by the Network: Until April 21, MBS (The station broadcasting Madoka) refused to air the final two episodes, citing the images of destruction in light of the Sendai Earthquake as the reason.
  • Second Episode Morning: Madoka awakens to find out the first episode was not a dream.
  • Secondary Character Title: Madoka is not the main character. Homura is.
  • Seinen: Despite the cute colours and teenage protagonists, this is very much not a kids' show. In fact, it is the exact opposite of a kid's show. Sure, it looks cute at first, but that illusion falls apart the moment you venture beyond the first couple of episodes.
  • Senseless Sacrifice: Kyoko's. Subverted, from Kyubey's point of view.
  • Sequel Hook: The Bittersweet Ending leaves room for a possible sequel. It helps that even Word of God admits that they would like to make a second season. Ultimately, we got a sequel, Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion, which itself contains a sequel hook for the fourth film in the franchise. Word of God has stated that it began as a plot for the second season that simply wasn't long enough for a Twelve-Episode Anime.
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The nature of Homura's powers and apparent goal, as of Episode 8. (Later expanded on, in Episode 10.)
    • Deconstructed as well. In the first timeline only Madoka and Mami die heroic deaths, Madoka more or less accepts her fate and there are no uberwitches left to wreak havoc upon the world. Every following restart gets more and more tragic and horrible, culminating in The End of the World as We Know It in the timeline right before the current one. This is because, due to Homura's meddling, the universe basically revolves around Madoka more and more with each iteration. This is not good when you are in this universe.
    • Then reconstructed in Episode 12. It was this very power-up that allowed Madoka to recreate reality, even though it was at the cost of her own existence.
  • Serial Escalation: While the whole anime decides to do this from the get-go, especially after the first Wham! Episode, a specific mention should go to the first Drama CD: The wiki's page on it (has spoilers) decides to explain that Episode 10 was light when comparing the versions of Homura's Dark and Troubled Past. This is extremely appalling after you have watched said episode and Lighter and Softer would be the last thing you would ever want to describe it, since it was one of the Darkest ones in the entire series.
  • Shoot the Dog: In Episode 10, in one of the previous timelines, Madoka asks Homura to kill her to prevent her from turning into a witch. She does it.
  • Shout-Out:
    • Episode 12: Madoka gives Homura her hair ribbons. This has also been used as symbolic bonding between magical girls in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha.
    • Another one in 12 -- Madoka's speech as she tells off Kyubey for trying to renege out of fulfilling her wish ends with three sentences that are almost word-for-word from Sadako Sasaki's Memorial Statue.

Madoka: This is my prayer. This is my wish. Fulfill it, Incubator!

    • Episode 9, When Kyubey explains the purpose of magical girls and witches, along with his real role in it to Madoka, several chairs similar to those on which characters from Bokurano sit while piloting Zearth can be seen in her room. Even more of these chairs are added in certain locations throughout the series in the DVD version.
    • Mami Tomoe and Kyoko Sakura have some very familiar names.
    • Kyoko's first name calls back to another redhead with family issues (who showed up about a third of the way through the series). what was her mother's name again?
    • Madoka's appearance to the magical girls in the past is more than a little reminiscent of the "Everyone gets turned into Tang" sequence.
    • Episode 9, aspects of Kyoko's fight with Oktavia are reminiscent of Revolutionary Girl Utena, mainly the red and blue silhouettes of Kyoko and Sayaka melting together. Kyoko kissing her soul gem in a prayer position before her suicide attack is a more subtle one.
    • Something of a stretch, but Mami's association with guns and Italian plus the fact that she became a magical girl directly after becoming an orphan is just a little reminiscent of the protagonists of Gunslinger Girl. Which honestly tells you all you need to know about this series.
    • Episode 12: Ultimate Madoka, aka Godoka/Madokami has a rather interesting similarity to the Mugen silhouette albeit somehow even more powerful. The similarities between the two are made obvious in this fanart
    • Episode 12 also gives one to Fantasia with Kamijou's music piece being Ave Maria - which the "Walpurgisnacht" sequence in Fantasia segued into.
  • Skyward Scream: When Homura sees Madoka next to Kyubey in the very first scene of the series. It's either a Big No or a Say My Name moment.
    • It turns out to be a Big No, since Madoka accepting the contract will end with her death and cause Homura to repeat the timeline again.
  • Slasher Smile: Almost everyone except Madoka has one in the manga. Kyubey is no exception.
  • Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Mostly pretty far on the cynical side. The finale moves things a bit closer to the idealistic side. Madoka becomes a god of sorts and prevents any witches from ever existing or having existed... but now demons exist, and the magical girls still have to fight them. Things are now less horrible, but most characters are dealing with roughly the same problems as they were before.
  • Shown Their Work: In regards to Homura's weapons, which are not only real-life weapons but also are drawn properly to detail. They even made sure to give Homura's Beretta M9 exactly 15 shots, the Beretta's full round.
  • Soul Jar: The soul gem of a magical girl is exactly what it is called.
    • On a smaller note, the grief seed of the witch is exactly the same thing.
  • Soundtrack Dissonance: In Episode 9, we're treated to soft, relaxing violin music as the magical girls fight Sayaka's Witch form, Oktavia von Seckendorff. Justified as it's a Song Of Solace for Oktavia.
  • Spell My Name with an "S": Runes in the last episode spell the anime's title as Puella Magi Madoka Magika. (However, the original Latin adjective is indeed "Magica", so this isn't very much debated over.)
    • Also seen with Kyubey, who can be Kyubey, Kyuubey, Kyuubei, Kyubei, Kyuubee, or even Cubé. The fact this comes from "incubator" does not help.
    • Rarely with Kyouko versus Kyoko.
  • Spinoff Babies: The novel features a kindergarten-aged Madoka and Sayaka meeting for the first time.
  • Spiritual Successor: Arguably, of Fate/Zero, of which Gen Urobuchi was also the author. Specifically, he wrote in his afterword to the first volume his wish to write a "heartwarming story" (the exact words he used to describe what he wanted to bring to viewers with Madoka before it aired), and Kyubey's mention of the inevitable increase in the entropy (and the heat death) of the universe, can be traced to the same afterword. The first half of the afterword itself is essentially a blueprint for Madoka, in terms of "What are the things that will allow Urobuchi to write a happy ending?" And the ending pretty much satisfied the prerequisite Urobuchi laid out in that same afterword - "a heavenly and chaste soul, who can sing carols of praise for humanity".
  • Spoiler Opening: The cover art (as seen in the picture above), and the opening prominently feature Madoka as a magical girl. However, we don't see her as one until episode 10, as part of Homura's backstory, which makes sense as she was actively trying to dissuade Madoka from becoming one in the first place.
  • Standard Female Grab Area: Kyoko tries this on Homura, and it works! It's later revealed that this is because Homura's abilities are based on time travel. She can't escape a grab by freezing time.
    • The trope is then completely subverted when the 'victim' drops a live stun grenade on the floor and easily escapes in the panic.
  • Starfish Aliens: Kyubey, and his race.
  • Stealth Pun:
    • Fans have noticed that the 魔法少女 (mahō shōjo, "magical girl") kanji in the title are stylized enough to make 廃怯少女 (haikyō shōjo, "faltering girl") a valid interpretation.
    • More important and lampshaded later: A young witch is a girl who uses magic, a "magical girl". What magical girls grow into was always inevitable.
    • This gets even more interesting and treads into Meaningful Name territory when you consider "廃怯少女": so a 魔法少女 eventually evolves into a 魔女, a witch, right? Going by that logic, a 廃怯少女 would mature into a 廃女, a haijo, or roughly a "girl who abolishes". Right, then: consider the ending.
    • Sayaka's witch is named Oktavia von Seckendorff and fights by summoning giant wheels. The German poet Karl von Seckendorff wrote The Wheel of Fate.
  • Stealth Hi Bye: Homura's modus operandi.
  • The Stinger: Depending on how you interpret the ending, Homura appears to have lived for so long that she's developing witch-like powers. Despite this however, she never gives up hope.
    • There's also the silhouette's of what might be the human forms of the witches.
  • Stock Footage: A couple of Kyoko's moves in Episode 5 are repeated via this method. There are problems with them meshing with surrounding footage.
    • Fixed for the DVD version.
  • Stock Sound Effects: Though not of the usual sort. If you've watched both series you'll notice this anime shares a lot of sound effects with Bakemonogatari.
    • One of the explosion sounds from Mami's final attack hitting Charlotte in Episode 3 is the same as the sound of a warship exploding in Freelancer.
  • Suicide Pact: The one in Chapter 4.

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  • Taking You with Me: Kyoko, for Sayaka. Although it's debatable whether she thought she couldn't beat Sayaka without a suicide attack, or was just following her into the dark.
  • Technology Porn: Everyone seems to be using the very latest pieces of technology, like interactive whiteboards in Madoka's school and a projection keyboard for her home PC.
  • Thanking the Viewer: The final still in the final episode.
  • Theme Naming: Each of the main protagonists has a surname (Kaname, Miki, Akemi, Tomoe, Sakura) that can also be used as a given name.
    • Doubly so in Homura's case—her last name is usually a first name, and vice versa.
  • There Are No Therapists: Well, there are, but when witches are involved...
  • They Killed Kenny:
    • Episode 10 reveals that everyone has died multiple times in different timelines, and Homura has witnessed all of them.
    • Also Kyubey, who Homura has killed at least a couple times, probably more.
  • The Four Loves:
    • Becoming a Magical Girl automatically detaches the girl from their loved ones. Though all girls seen so far have phileo love (friendship) as a main motivation.
    • Madoka almost became a magical girl (thus accepting a Deal with the Devil) to rescue her friend.
    • And in the last episode, Madoka demonstrates Agape love in her wish to rewrite the laws of the universe so no magical girl will have to suffer turning into a witch ever by absorbing all of their despair.
    • Sayaka Miki became a Magical Girl because she wanted Eros (romantic) love. Not getting it drove her to her Start of Darkness and then to a Face Heel Turn.
    • Mami Tomoe despised being alone, and wished phileos love from Madoka. Shortly after getting it, though, she died.
    • Kyoko's sacrifice in Episode 9 for Sayaka's sake could very well be considered a form of Agape love. It's fitting considering the worldview she originally lived by and was brought up in. That, and her Selfless Wish regarding help for her father so he could gain followers and support the Sakura family was born from Storge love.
    • Episode 10 reveals that phileos love is Homura's entire motivation for everything she does.
  • Throw-Away Guns: Part of Mami's modus operandi.
  • Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Tried in Episode 5 by Sayaka. Hard to tell if it would be really successful because the fight got interrupted.
    • It worked against the witch in the previous episode.
  • Time Stands Still: Homura's power.
  • (Episode) Title Drop: Each episode's title is a line spoken in that episode. The person who speaks it is the same person to speak the final line of the preview in the previous episode.
  • Title Theme Drop: One of the ending themes, "Magia", plays during Homura's battle with Walpurgisnacht in episode 10. It also plays at the end of episode 11, leading up into the ending credits.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl:
    • Sayaka and Madoka fit this respectively.
    • And then Sayaka was the girly girl to Kyoko's tomboy.
  • Too Happy to Live: The creators did this with Mami Tomoe. Don't go thinking they won't have the guts to do it again.
  • Took a Level In Badass: Akemi Homura. She started as a frail and nervous student in her original timeline, but has steadily become more prepared and cynical with each timeline she finds herself having to wind back, resulting in the Homura that we know.
  • Too Hot for TV: Said Too Soon sequences below have aired on Internet broadcasts and presumably will be on the DVDs.
  • Too Soon: Suspected to be the reason for why the Schedule Slip is more than the one week of most other shows. Episode 10 shows a flooded city after the Walpurgisnacht attacks; after the 2011 Sendai earthquake (and resultant tsunami), SHAFT apparently re-animated some sequences.
  • Tragic Hero: Sayaka does everything in her power to be a force of good, but collapses when she couldn't forgive wrongdoings of others as well as her own.
  • Transformation Sequence: While this is a Magical Girl show, these sequences are done in very sparse quantities, very quickly, and for each girl the sequence appears perhaps once or twice in the series (most "transformations" are simply a more realistic rendition of the girl briefly glowing and reappearing in new clothes). They are also not done consistently, averting Stock Footage, and are very rare; for a while, only Mami's, Sayaka's, and Kyoko's could be found. We finally get to see Homura's in Episode 11. Madoka never gets one.
  • Transformation Trinket: The girls use their soul gems to transform into magical girls.
    • Inverted. It's not so much that they use the soul gem to transform their bodies than they use their bodies as vessels in which they project their soul into, as it is the soul gem, not the body, which contains the magical girl.
  • Troper Critical Mass: The page was scroll-worthy as of Episode 3.
  • Troperiffic: It sure did take a while to get down here, huh? Then again, it was scroll-worthy enough to read all that.
  • Trope Overdosed
  • Twelve-Episode Anime: Including two movies, Puella Magi Madoka Magicka: The Movie and Puella Magi Madoka Magicka: The Rebellion.
    • Puella Magi Madoka Magicka: The Movie contains all the twelve episodes combined into one movie.
  • Twenty Minutes Into the Future: There really isn't anything in terms of technology that isn't possible in this day and age, but things like motion-activated lamps, the architecture, and an extremely stylized CD player lend things a futuristic vibe.
  • Two First Names: See Theme Naming above.
  • Two-Teacher School: A second teacher aside of Kazuko didn't even show up until episode 9.
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