Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Difference between revisions

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* [[Abstract Apotheosis]]: {{spoiler|Madoka's wish turns her into the abstract concept of hope, here also a kind of force of nature. This fulfills her wish to erase all witches (past, present, and future, including ''her own'') from existence, preventing magical girls from becoming Witches}}.

* [[Accidental Pun]]:

*** She's a ''lot'' [[Chaotic Selfish|closer to]] [[Disgaea|Etna]], [[Deadpan Snarker|though]].

* [[Eyes of Gold]]: {{spoiler|Madoka on episode 12}}

* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Once you become a magical girl, that's it. There's no way back.

* [[The Fair Folk]]: Some witches behave like this. Gertrud is focused on her(?) roses; while Charlotte is fixated on cheese and will be caught off-guard if one throws her(?) some. It's also a tantalizing irony for Charlotte: despite being able to make candies out of nothing, she can't create cheese.

** [[Broken Hero]]: '''Mami'''.

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Especially Homura.

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Each episode title is a line of dialogue from the said episode.

* [[If We Get Through This]]: "...we're all going out for cake!" {{spoiler|[[Portal (series)|The cake is]] unfulfillable.}}

* [[Jerk Justifications]]: Homura is mostly Type 3 ("That's the way I am, I can't fix it") while Kyoko is type 1 ("Kindness is weakness").

** [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: Both Homura and Kyoko tried to snap Sayaka out of her [[Sanity Slippage]]—Homura violently so—in Episode 8. {{spoiler|They failed}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}: {{spoiler|Mami Tomoe (Episode 3, which got bumped into [[Memetic Mutation|some really meme-tastic territory]]), then Kyoko Sakura and Sayaka Miki in Episode 9 (the former sacrificed herself to [[Fate Worse Than Death|"save"]] the latter).}}

** {{spoiler|Due to a massive [[Cosmic Retcon]] at the end of the anime, Madoka [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence]] and [[Ret-Gone|technically no longer exists]]. Mami and Kyoko [[Back From the Dead|come back to life]] , thanks to never having died in the first place. However, Sayaka dies in the new timeline "using up her power" fighting demons, though she may have also [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence]] with Madoka.}}

* [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]]: {{spoiler|Madoka and Homura in Episode 12}}

* [[Out of the Inferno]]: {{spoiler|A villainous version with Walpurgisnacht, who emerges from huge flames of Homura's making unharmed.}}

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Subverted with Madoka who actually has a nice happy family, but played straight with every ''other'' magical girl.

** Homura appears to live alone; the nameplate of her residence only has her name, {{spoiler|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. {{spoiler|Her mother appears in Episode 11, during her funeral.}}

* [[Two First Names]]: See [[Theme Naming]] above.

* [[Two-Teacher School]]: A second teacher aside of Kazuko didn't even show up until episode 9.

* [[Undead Children]]: {{spoiler|[[Magical Girl]]s are zombies, the Witches are ghosts.}}

* [[Unflinching Walk]]: Due to a combination of her [[Throw Down the Bomblet|weapon]] [[Weapon of Choice|of choice]] and her [[Time Stands Still|ability]], Homura is a master of this and [[Badass|demonstrates]] exactly how it's done in episode 10.

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