Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Difference between revisions

** [[Played Straight]] for Homura's wish. {{spoiler|She wanted to protect Madoka instead of being protected, but what she wished for was to be able to go back in time and do it over, knowing then what she does now. And boy, did she ever.}}

** And finally [[Averted]] for {{spoiler|Original-Timeline Madoka. The wish ''didn't'' backfire on her, just because her wish was simple, straightforward, and relatively petty. In the Drama CD, she wished for a cat to be saved after being hit by a car, and there's no indication that anything related to that wish ever went wrong.}}

* [[Being Good Sucks]]:

** Sayaka's attempt at being a moral crusader backfires {{spoiler|and the strain of fighting as a magical girl while not getting what she wanted causes her sanity to start leaking down the drain}}.

* [[Environmental Symbolism]]: Due to the classrooms looking like cages, there has been speculation by fans that the school (lots of glass, generally futuristic) was based on Justice Center Leoben, an Austrian prison with a similar design.

* [[Equivalent Exchange]]: Vaguely, this is how having a wish granted is related to being a [[Magical Girl]].

** Interestingly, it's possible that the implication that [[Equivalent Exchange]] is being strictly enforced (or is inherent to the process) may well just be a masterful piece of misdirection on Kyubey's part. {{spoiler|The real reason they meet despair proportional to the hope they bring is because it lets him double-dip--he profits from ANY sufficiently strong emotional swings.}}

* [[Essence Drop]]: A defeated Witch usually leaves behind a Grief Seed, which a magical girl can then pick up and use to refill her lost [[Mana]] and thus restore the brightness of her Soul Gem -- {{spoiler|or rather, that's what they're led to believe. What they actually do is transfer [[The Corruption]] that they had accumulated [[Magic Is Evil|from their magic use]] from the Soul Gem into the Grief Seed, thus delaying their eventual fate of transforming into Witches themselves.}}

* [[Green Lantern Ring]]: Generally, a magical girl's abilities and signature attack will remain the same, but they seem to be able to use it for minor things on the fly; this generally adheres to [[New Powers As the Plot Demands]] meets [[Mundane Utility]]. For example, Mami mostly sticks to summoning enchanted muskets, but can enchant a bat to harm familiars and can create a barrier using a length of chain as a boundary and conduit. Homura once used her powers to [[The Glasses Gotta Go|fix her eyesight]], despite that her main gimmick is totally unrelated.

* [[The Greatest Story Never Told]]: {{spoiler|In the end, Homura remains as the only living witness to everything that has happened, and the new version of Kyubey says he'll have to take her word for it since no proof of it remains.}}

* [[Guns Akimbo]]/[[Gun Kata]]:[http://sadpanda.us/images/423480-M5O6NMA.gif And how.]

** {{spoiler|Not that it helps...}}

* [[Say My Name]]: Particularly in Episode 8. Homura for Madoka. Then, at the end of the episode, {{spoiler|Sayakaaaaaa}}! This is notable for the fact that Homura just showed a [[Not So Stoic]] moment and that {{spoiler|Kyoko}} never calls ''anyone'' by name, but then proceeds to spend a good deal of Episode 9 calling for {{spoiler|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 21st. The last volume of the manga adaptation, and the manga spin-off ''Oriko Magica'', have also been delayed.

* [[Suicide Pact]]: The one in Chapter 4.

* [[Taking You With Me]]: {{spoiler|Kyoko, for Sayaka.}} Although {{spoiler|it's debatable whether she thought she couldn't beat Sayaka without a suicide attack, or was just [[You Are Not Alone|following her]] [[Dying Alone|into the dark]].}}

** Well, [http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Poorfag almost everyone].

* [[Thanking the Viewer]]: The final still in the final episode.