History Characters / PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSayakaMiki

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: "I made Madoka cry!"

* TookALevelInBadass: After making a contract with Kyubey she becomes a knight in a magical girl outfit.

* FanDisservice: One can notice she's quite attractive once in her magical girl outfit. By the time she beats down Elsa Maria with her sword in episode 7, she gets blood smears on her magical girl uniform.

** Her inability to change her ideals and accept that HumansAreFlawed.

* FatalFlaw: Her downfall comes from her inability to reconcile her [[HeroicWannabe desire to be a hero]] when she's anything but.

* PluckyGirl: At first she is an upbeat and positive MagicalGirl despite witnessing Mami's death, but as the series goes on she loses her more comedic and upbeat features for extremely understandable reasons, to the point where she's a broken teary shell of her former self by her final moments.

* PluckyGirl: At first she is an upbeat and positive MagicalGirl despite witnessing Mami's death.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Sayaka has a crush on Kyosuke, but she sure does joke about Madoka being her wife a lot. And the second drama C.D had her ''way'' too interested in Hitomi's underwear..

* ElementalMotifs: Her {{transformation sequence}}s involve water, after the first one, with bubbly sounds, actual water bubbles, etc. That said, this is more ironic than anything, [[PowerStereotypeFlip as she has very few of the traits that are commonly associated with water]]. Water is fluid and, while Sayaka is rigid to the point of stubbornness. Water is adaptable and fits into any container, while Sayaka is so unshakeable and unwilling to change her views that it eventually kills her. If anything, she has more in common with a person with an earth motif (i.e '''Homura''', out of all people), which is infamous for being difficult to move and uncompromising.

* ElementalMotifs: Her {{transformation sequence}}s involve water, after the first one, with bubbly sounds, actual water bubbles, etc. That said, this is more ironic than anything, [[PowerStereotypeFlip as she has very few of the traits that are commonly associated with water]]. Water is fluid and, while Sayaka is rigid to the point of stubbornness. Water is adaptable and fits into any container, while Sayaka is so unshakeable and unwilling to change her views that it eventually kills her. If anything, she has more in common with a person with an earth motif, which is infamous for being difficult to move and uncompromising.

* ElementalMotifs: Her {{transformation sequence}}s involve water, after the first one, with bubbly sounds, actual water bubbles, etc. That said, this is more ironic than anything, as she has very few of the traits that are commonly associated with water. Water is fluid and, while Sayaka is rigid to the point of stubborness. Water is adaptable and fits into any container, while Sayaka is so unshakeable and unwilling to change her views that it eventually kills her.

* ElementalMotifs: Her {{transformation sequence}}s involve water, after the first one, with bubbly sounds, actual water bubbles, etc.

* IgnoredAesop: A non-comedic example. Sayaka hears and acknowledges Mami's warning that making a wish for someone else may not be as selfless as she thinks, and that it could have serious consequences. Kyoko even goes so far as to outline Sayaka's reasoning: basically, [[EntitledToHaveYou "if I save him, he owes me his love."]] The comment hits home, and after Mami's death, Sayaka seems to have taken the message on board, and agrees with Madoka that throwing away their lives for a wish that might be a double-edged sword is foolish. Unfortunately, Kyosuke has his meltdown shortly afterwards, and in the heat of the moment, Sayaka forgets everything she's learned.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EriKitamura (Japanese), Creator/SarahAnneWilliams (English), Creator/CarmenCalvell (Spanish)

* ThePerfectionist: Sayaka's biggest flaw: She has to be perfect. This is related to her self-esteem issues: Mami died, and so she feels a responsibility of picking up the torch and being a true hero. When she feels extreme jealousy and snaps at Madoka, her sanity takes another hit. When she learns the truth behind her transformation, it takes another hit. When Kyoko offers her an apple, she refuses, twice, choosing purity and honor over selfish survivalism. She refuses to tolerate any sins, including her own. In short, she feels herself unable to live up to Mami's legacy due to her feeling certain things, without realizing that she can still be a hero without being perfect.

* TragicDream: Sayaka wanted to be Mami's successor: A perfect magical girl who fought for all that was right. Unfortunately, Sayaka has major self-esteem issues and has enormous pressure to continue Mami's legacy, causing her to refuse help, and view herself as tainted, twisted, and wrong for feeling and acting like a normal human being.

* HumansAreBastards: A misogynist conversation on the train makes Sayaka realize that the humans she was sworn to protect as a Magical Girl are obnoxious jerks, leading her to become a Witch.

* TraumaCongaLine: She swears to uphold Mami's legacy as a omnibenevolent magical girl, to prevent Madoka from contracting (to protect her), to be a hero, and to maybe/hopefully win Kyosuke's heart. She first gets her ass kicked by Kyoko, who casually mocks and stomps over Sayaka's ideals. Then she learns that her crush left the hospital without even telling her. Then she learns that she's actually a rock, and views herself as an abomination that no one could love. Then one of her two best friends, Hitomi, tells her that she also likes Kyosuke, but will give Sayaka time to confess first, having met him first and all... which Sayaka can't do, due to the whole soul situation. Then she begins hating herself for a moment of weakness about saving Hitomi, making her think that she fails as a hero, too. And all this while, nearly every word and action from everyone else is a constant reminder that she's nowhere near as good of a fighter as Mami was, making her doubt her own capabilities, as well. And finally, only pushing herself forward due to her last remaining belief that the world is worth dying for... she encounters two sexist assholes on a train, which drives her over the edge. And then she becomes a witch, and if other materials are any indication, she was conscious of it the entire time.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote: Click here to see her normal attire]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sayaka_casual.png[[/labelnote]]]]

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* TragicHero: Her {{fatal flaw}}s were her nonexistent self-esteem and her sense of perfectionism. These, with her unrequited love for Kyosuke as a trigger, are what doom her into becoming the witch Oktavia von Seckendorff, a being who represents the warped desires of Sayaka's.]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EriKitamura (Japanese), Creator/SarahWilliams (English), Creator/CarmenCalvell (Spanish)

* IncomingHam:
** Every time Sayaka comes in, she's always saying something about JUSTICE.

* {{Irony}}:In one of the timelines shown in Episode 10, Sayaka is reluctant to work with Homura because, as a melee fighter, she's afraid that she'll get caught in one of Homura's bombs. When she becomes a witch, she is killed by Homura's bombs.

* TheHeroDies: Word of god describes her as the hero of the show, and she dies and remains dead at the end.