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* PoorCommunicationKills: For most of the series, one could make this complaint about her--why wouldn't she just ''tell'' the other girls all of the horrible things about magical girls? [[spoiler:It turns out she did just that in previous timelines. [[CassandraTruth They didn't believe her]], and [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption it still ended horribly]]: Sayaka turned into a witch, Mami killed Kyoko, and Madoka has to kill Mami to stop her despair-filled rampage]]. Homura [[JustifiedTrope knows from experience]] that she can't save magical girls from themselves, no matter how clearly she spells it out. That being said, her warnings are often too vague or delivered too harshly for them to be received properly. [[spoiler:A lot of the hiccups she had with Mami in episode 3 could have been avoided with a better set of warnings, for example.]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: For most of the series, one could make this complaint about her--why wouldn't she just ''tell'' the other girls all of the horrible things about magical girls? [[spoiler:It turns out she did just that in previous timelines. [[CassandraTruth They didn't believe her]], and [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption it still ended horribly]]: Sayaka turned into a witch, Mami killed Kyoko, and Madoka has to kill Mami to stop her despair-filled rampage]]. Homura [[JustifiedTrope knows from experience]] that she can't save magical girls from themselves, no matter how clearly she spells it out. That being said, her warnings are often too vague or delivered too harshly for them to be received properly. [[spoiler:A lot of the hiccups she had with Mami in episode 3 could have been avoided with a better set of warnings, for example. Moreover, there is the irony that in order for Madoka to grant her wish of becoming a god to remove all the suffering magical girls go through, and thus saving her from becoming Gretchen or dying at the hands of Walpurgisnacht, she ''learned'' what was going on from Kyubey.]]
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* CursedWithAwesome: She is probably the only magical girl ''in the world'' whose life was [[spoiler:actually improved by contracting. All the others had health, (living) loved ones, or pleasures that contracting cost them; Homura did not. This makes it very difficult for her to [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing convince people that contracting is not a good idea]].]]
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite the dark outfit, creepily sterile house, and aloof demeanor, she's not all that bad a girl. [[spoiler:In the new universe, she's still a magical girl, and significantly more heroic than she once was and manifests terrifying jagged black wings as part of her BattleAura.]]
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite the dark outfit, creepily sterile house, and aloof demeanor, she's not all that bad a girl. [[spoiler:In the new universe, she's still a magical girl, and significantly more heroic than she once was was...and manifests terrifying jagged black wings as part of her BattleAura.]]
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* ElementalMotifs: Earth. Her tights and Soul Gem both have diamond motifs, and diamonds are equivalent to the pentacles in tarot, which are Earth-aligned. Her own powers have a more practical nature rather than anything fancy or offensive, and she has been [[spoiler: stuck in the same unending rut for ''years'', which she has been utterly stubborn and unwanting to get out of. This is also manifested in the end, when she becomes literally stuck under rubble, unable to move from the ground until Madoka interferes]].
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* ElementalMotifs: Earth. Her tights and Soul Gem both have diamond motifs, and diamonds are equivalent to the pentacles in tarot, which are Earth-aligned. Her own powers have a more practical nature rather than anything fancy or offensive, and she has been [[spoiler: stuck in the same unending rut for ''years'', which she has been utterly stubborn and unwanting to get out of. This is also manifested symbolically shown in the end, when she becomes literally stuck under rubble, unable to move from the ground until Madoka interferes]].
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** [[spoiler:She's trying to protect Madoka by making sure she never learns the truth about Kyubey. It turns out the only way to save Madoka is to actually get her ''in'' the know of everything, as it's only through learning the suffering of magical girls in the paws of Kyubey does Madoka make her wish to save everyone.]]
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** [[spoiler:She's trying to protect Madoka by making sure she never learns the truth about Kyubey. It turns out the only way to save Madoka is to actually get her ''in'' the know of everything, as it's only through learning about the suffering of magical girls in the at Kyubey's paws of Kyubey does that Madoka make makes her wish to save everyone.]]
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* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark to Madoka's light because she's cold and rude but no doubt beautiful and graceful.
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* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark to Madoka's light because light; she's cold and rude but no doubt beautiful and graceful.
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* LonerTurnedFriend: Played with. [[spoiler:In the original timeline she was a loner due to shyness and Madoka befriended her. In the fifth time line she's a loner due to HeroicSafeMode and still considers herself Madoka's friend but Madoka doesn't know they were friends.]]
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* LonerTurnedFriend: Played with. [[spoiler:In the original timeline she was a loner due to shyness and Madoka befriended her. In the fifth time line timeline she's a loner due to HeroicSafeMode and her HeroicSafeMode. She still considers herself Madoka's friend friend, but Madoka doesn't know they were friends.]]
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* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Downplayed. Her "weapon" is a buckler but she almost never uses it as a shield. Instead, she has a purple energy barrier.
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* LoveIsLikeReligion: Her character concept can be summarized as "what if an apostle ''didn't'' respect UsefulNotes/JesusChrist's decision to sacrifice Himself?" The ensuing tangle of condescension, genuinely compassionate intentions, and fanatical insistence on doing things her way gets the world destroyed more than once.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Downplayed. Her "weapon" is abuckler buckler, but she almost never uses it as a shield. Instead, she has a purple energy barrier.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Downplayed. Her "weapon" is a
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* MysteriousPast: She has no family and lives alone in her apartment, with very few details given of her past beyond being in the hospital and some time in a catholic school in Tokyo. [[spoiler:After contracting, saving Madoka from becoming a magical girl became her only purpose. Nothing distracts her from her goal because there's nothing and nobody else in her life that matters.]]
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* MysteriousPast: She has no family and lives alone in her apartment, with very few apartment. No details are given of her past beyond being except that she spent time in the a hospital and some time in attended a catholic Catholic school in Tokyo. [[spoiler:After contracting, she contracted, saving Madoka from becoming a magical girl became her only purpose. Nothing distracts her from her goal because there's nothing and nobody else in her life that matters.]]
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* RuleOfSymbolism: Her wish was to [[spoiler:go back in time to protect Madoka]] and her magical girl weapon is a shield.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: Her wish was to [[spoiler:go back in time to protect Madoka]] Madoka]], and her magical girl weapon is a shield.
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** [[spoiler:She's trying to protect Madoka by making sure she never learns the truth about Kyubey. It turns out the only way to save Madoka is to get her ''in'' the know of everything, as it's only through learning the suffering of magical girls in the paws of Kyubey does MAdoka make her wish to save everyone.]]
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** [[spoiler:She's trying to protect Madoka by making sure she never learns the truth about Kyubey. It turns out the only way to save Madoka is to actually get her ''in'' the know of everything, as it's only through learning the suffering of magical girls in the paws of Kyubey does MAdoka Madoka make her wish to save everyone.]]
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* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:The girl who wished to be the one protecting Madoka always ended up protected by her. This is most evident in episode 11 of the current timeline. When she realizes that [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption she will never be able to protect Madoka, no matter how many times she tries]] and the despair almost turned her into a witch until Madoka saved her again.]]
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* {{Irony}}: {{Irony}}:
** [[spoiler:The girl who wished to be the one protecting Madoka always ended up protected by her. This is most evident in episode 11 of the current timeline. When she realizes that [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption she will never be able to protect Madoka, no matter how many times she tries]] and the despair almost turned her into a witch until Madoka saved her again.]]
** [[spoiler:She's trying to protect Madoka by making sure she never learns the truth about Kyubey. It turns out the only way to save Madoka is to get her ''in'' the know of everything, as it's only through learning the suffering of magical girls in the paws of Kyubey does MAdoka make her wish to save everyone.]]
** [[spoiler:The girl who wished to be the one protecting Madoka always ended up protected by her. This is most evident in episode 11 of the current timeline. When she realizes that [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption she will never be able to protect Madoka, no matter how many times she tries]] and the despair almost turned her into a witch until Madoka saved her again.]]
** [[spoiler:She's trying to protect Madoka by making sure she never learns the truth about Kyubey. It turns out the only way to save Madoka is to get her ''in'' the know of everything, as it's only through learning the suffering of magical girls in the paws of Kyubey does MAdoka make her wish to save everyone.]]
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* ArcherArchetype: Fills the character archetype nicely. She works on her own, not relying on anyone and is very aloof. She gets to use a black bow [[spoiler:in Madoka's new, witch-free world.]]
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* CracksInTheIcyFacade: Its hard to see anything beyond a cold, uncaring demeanor with Homura at first. At worst you see annoyance and frustration, but deeper, kinder emotions are hard to spot. But they slowly become visible, and [[spoiler: we eventually see just how much of a facade that icy exterior really is.]]
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* EnragedByIdiocy: She's very frustrated by what she considers foolish and stubborn actions. While she thinks of Mami as naïve and respects Kyoko's pragmatic worldview, she ''detests'' Sayaka, who threw her wish away for someone rlse and is too stubborn to listen to reason.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Homura scorns Mami for her naïvely optimistic worldview, and calls Sayaka foolish for making her wish on someone else's behalf. Yey, [[spoiler:she is insanely dedicated to saving Madoka from despair, and her contract was was spurred entirely by her need to preserve ''some'' happiness in the world. And despite failing so many times she keeps trying again and again desperately expecting the outcome to go differently, which in effect means she has more idealism than nearly ''any'' of the others if she honestly believes things can change after so long.]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Homura scorns Mami for her naïvely optimistic worldview, and calls Sayaka foolish for making her wish on someone else's behalf. Yey, Yet, [[spoiler:she is insanely dedicated to saving Madoka from despair, and her contract was was spurred entirely by her need to preserve ''some'' happiness in the world. And despite failing so many times she keeps trying again and again desperately expecting the outcome to go differently, which in effect means she has more idealism than nearly ''any'' of the others if she honestly believes things can change after so long.]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Often scorns the other girls' idealism and sentimental reasons for contracting... [[spoiler:yet is insanely dedicated to saving Madoka from despair, and whose contract was spurred entirely by her need to preserve ''some'' happiness in the world. And despite failing so many times she keeps trying again and again desperately expecting the outcome to go differently, which in effect means she has more idealism than nearly ''any'' of the others if she honestly believes things can change after so long.]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Often Homura scorns the other girls' idealism Mami for her naïvely optimistic worldview, and sentimental reasons calls Sayaka foolish for contracting... [[spoiler:yet making her wish on someone else's behalf. Yey, [[spoiler:she is insanely dedicated to saving Madoka from despair, and whose her contract was was spurred entirely by her need to preserve ''some'' happiness in the world. And despite failing so many times she keeps trying again and again desperately expecting the outcome to go differently, which in effect means she has more idealism than nearly ''any'' of the others if she honestly believes things can change after so long.]]
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* ElementalMotifs: Earth. Her tights and Soul Gem both have diamond motifs, and diamonds are equivalent to the pentacles in tarot, which are Earth-aligned. Her own powers have a more practical nature rather than anything fancy or offensive, and she has been [[spoiler: stuck in the same unending rut for ''years'', which she has been utterly stubborn and unwanting to get out of. This is also manifested in the end, when she becomes literally stuck under rubble, unable to move from the ground until Madoka interferes]].
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* MysteriousPast: She has no family and lives alone in her apartment. [[spoiler:After contracting, saving Madoka from becoming a magical girl became her only purpose. Nothing distracts her from her goal because there's nothing and nobody else in her life that matters.]]
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* MysteriousPast: She has no family and lives alone in her apartment.apartment, with very few details given of her past beyond being in the hospital and some time in a catholic school in Tokyo. [[spoiler:After contracting, saving Madoka from becoming a magical girl became her only purpose. Nothing distracts her from her goal because there's nothing and nobody else in her life that matters.]]
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiwaSaito (Japanese), Creator/CristinaValenzuela (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/AriadnaJimenez (Spanish), Creator/NathalieBienaime (French), Creator/KayaMarieMoller (German)[[/labelnote]]
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiwaSaito (Japanese), Creator/CristinaValenzuela (English)[[labelnote: Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/AriadnaJimenez (Spanish), Creator/AlessiaAmendola (Italian), Creator/NathalieBienaime (French), Creator/KayaMarieMoller (German)[[/labelnote]]
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* ColourCodedTimestop: Everything goes greyscale.
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* ColourCodedTimestop: Everything on the scene goes greyscale.greyscale when Homura activates her [[TimeStandsStill time stop ability]]. Only Homura and whoever she touches is in color.
* CurbStompBattle: She can easily fight both witches and other magical girls [[spoiler:[[TimeStandsStill because of her exploitable ability]]. Case in point, one timeline shows her killing witches ''all by herself''. Walpurgisnacht is the only witch capable of sending her to the receiving end of the curbstomp, [[MoreDakka despite her]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill best efforts]].]]
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* CurbStompBattle: She can easily fight both witches and other magical girls [[spoiler:[[TimeStandsStill because of her exploitable ability]]. Case in point, one timeline shows her killing witches ''all by herself''. Walpurgisnacht is the only witch capable of sending her to the receiving end of the curbstomp, [[MoreDakka despite her]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill best efforts]].]]
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* MuggleBestFriend: To Madoka [[spoiler:in the original timeline. It nicely parallels Madoka taking this role in the current timeline.]]
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* MuggleBestFriend: To Madoka [[spoiler:in [[spoiler:In the original timeline. It nicely parallels timeline, Homura was a normal girl who befriended the magical girls Madoka taking this role in and Mami after they saved her from a witch. In the current timeline.timeline, the roles have switched because Homura wants to stop Madoka from becoming a magical girl and dying again.]]
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* PerpetualFrowner: After what she’s been through in the past timelines, does she really have ''any'' reason to smile?
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* PerpetualFrowner: After what she’s she's been through in [[spoiler:in the past timelines, does timelines]], she really have ''any'' reason to smile?doesn't smile anymore. Her default expression is cold as ice.
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* TheHeroine: Of the [[spoiler:current timeline, as it is the story of her fighting Kyubey and trying to protect Madoka. She is also the hero in Goddess Madoka's witch-free timeline.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: As we see in episode 10, it's been a long, terrible one.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: As we see in episode 10, it's been a long, terrible one.
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* {{Time Travel}}er: Kyubey states that she's [[spoiler:"from [[AlternateTimeline another timeline]]".]]
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** People assumed to be witches were also burned at the stake.
