History Characters / PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion

** It being a tooth monster may be a reference to the common dream of teeth falling out, which is believed to represent anxiety and stress. Something Homura, unfortunately, has no shortage of.

** It is covered in incredibly hard enamel that could be taken to represent either Homura's hard-headed determination or the emotional wall she built around herself to no longer suffer the pain of seeing her friends die in every time loop.

** It is covered in incredibly hard enamel. That represents the emotional wall Homura built around herself to no longer suffer the pain of seeing her friends die in every time loop.

** Lilia destroys any intruders with either its teeth or its nut cannons, just as Homura mows down every witch in her path without hesitation.

** Lilia being a tooth monster may be a reference to the common dream of teeth falling out, which is believed to represent anxiety and stress. Something Homura, unfortunately, has no shortage of.

* RuleOfSymbolism:

** Lilia destroys any intruders with either its teeth or its nut cannons, just as Homura mows down every witch in her path.
** It is covered in incredibly hard enamel, representing that Homura built an emotional wall around herself to no longer suffer the pain of seeing her friends die in every time loop.

* FakeMemories: All of their memories have been modified or completely rewritten to make them forget the tragic events of their lives. This is also why they don't realize the fact that there's [[BackFromTheDead people who shouldn't be alive around]].

At the end of the anime, Homura was last seen fighting off wraiths with her new powers. At the beginning of the movie, she's returned to her glasses-wearing persona and is once again a transfer student at Madoka's school. She joins the other magical girls but soon begins questioning the nature of the world she is in, returning to her stoic badass persona and serving as the main character of the movie.

* AmnesiacDissonance: [[spoiler:Due to the witch barrier altering everyone's memories, Homura couldn't remember that she had already been transformed into a witch because of Kyubey getting in the way of Madoka retrieving her soul.]]

* AscendedExtra: She was already an extremely important character, but the movie promotes her from {{Deuteragonist}} to protagonist.
* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:As revealed near the end of the movie at some point the Incubators captured Homura's dying body and placed her soul gem inside an isolation field in order to create a type of witch barrier. The entire rest of the movie is Madoka and the other Magical Girls attempting to rescue Homura from said field and destroy the Incubators plans.]]

* BespectacledCutie: At the start of the movie, she has reverted to her original timid yet cute bespectacled girl self, but she ditches her glasses and cute behavior once she starts to notice something's wrong in Mitakihara City.
* BrokenBird: She isn't dealing with the trauma from all the time loops she experienced that well.
* BrokenTears: During an emotional breakdown, Homura cries her heart out as she tells Madoka about a "dream" where she found herself in a world where Madoka didn't exist and no one but her remembered her, admitting she felt sad and lonely without Madoka.
* ByronicHeroine: The movie centers around Homura and her conflicting emotions, mainly her angst and pain, while also emphasising her [[PragmaticHero pragmatism]] and refusal to conform.

** Kind of. At several points in the movie, Homura claims that no-one can understand her, or that she doesn't expect anyone to understand her.

* OmnicidalManiac: When Sayaka asks if she will destroy the universe, Homura replies she might do so once the Wraiths are dealt with.

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* RuleOfSymbolism: Lilia destroys any intruders with either its teeth or its nut cannons, just as Homura mows down every witch in her path.

* SummonMagic: As part of [[spoiler:the Law of Cycles, Sayaka can summon Oktavia von Seckendorff, her witch form, and also an army of familiars from other witches.]] AllThereInTheManual explains Oktavia can appear anywhere there is water, which is why Sayaka stabs herself to summon Oktavia [[BloodMagic with her blood]]]] in the climactic battle.

* ArchEnemy: [[spoiler:By the end of the movie, she becomes this to devil Homura. Sayaka ''hates'' her, and while it's not clear if Homura reciprocates that hatred, Sayaka is certainly the only possible threat to her power]].

* BloodMagic: A variant. Sayaka can summon [[spoiler:her witch form, Oktavia]], wherever there is water. In the absence of a sufficient amount of water, she stabs herself and summons her from her own blood.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Just like Madoka, the very end of the movie has her return to a normal school life, [[spoiler:thanks to Demon Homura's RealityWarper powers. With the very important twist of losing her memories of Madoka, and the Law of Cycles. Unlike the other girls, though, the movie gives special focus to Sayaka's ring, and she can still summon Oktavia.]]
* CameBackStrong: "Dying" [[spoiler:and becoming part of the Law of Cycles]] has given her new witch-related powers.
* CharacterDevelopment: She has done a lot of growing between movies. She's less bullheaded, accepts Homura quickly and sympathizes with her [[spoiler:when she's close to realizing that she's a witch]], and is overall a lot more responsible, with Kyouko mentioning that she always does her homework whereas she was a lot more BookDumb in the anime. [[spoiler:Dying and regaining her memories of previous timelines did her good]].

* DefiantToTheEnd: Just before [[spoiler:Demon Homura erases the last of her memories]], Sayaka says that she will always remember [[spoiler:Homura as a demon.]]

* IaijutsuPractitioner: She frees Homura from Mami's ribbon restraints by cutting the lock in this fashion. And at another point in the following scenes, [[spoiler:she draws her sword fast enough to jam it in Homura's shield before she can escape or attack via time-stop, thus preventing Homura from using her shield for a while]]. That takes some skill.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: She's one of only two people who knows what's really going on due to [[spoiler:Madoka suppressing her own memory]], and she was even able to fool ''Homura'' and surprise the latter with her newfound strength and cunning. [[spoiler:Given that Kyubey knew Sayaka was taken by the Law of Cycles, the implication is that Sayaka was pretending to be an illusion created by Homura's barrier.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Sayaka appears to be a young teenager, same as most magical girls. However, since she [[spoiler:remembers the previous timelines, her true mental age is ''much'' older, possibly even putting her close to a century. And as part of the Law of Cycles, she's retroactively been around since magical girls first began]].

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When clashing against Homura, she performs a vanishing act the instant she loses control over [[spoiler:Homura's time-stopping shield]]. Homura notes that Sayaka usually isn't such a tactician.

* SummonMagic: As part of [[spoiler:the Law of Cycles,]] Sayaka can summon [[spoiler:Oktavia von Seckendorff, her witch form, and also an army of familiars from other witches.]] AllThereInTheManual explains [[spoiler:Oktavia]] can appear anywhere there is water, which is why Sayaka stabs herself to summon [[spoiler:Oktavia [[BloodMagic with her blood]]]] in the climactic battle.
** In the [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames IOS Game]] ''[[VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory Magia Record]]'', this is called "Doppel": to summon one's inner Witch. [[spoiler: Naturally as part of the Law of Cycles, she is able to use a version of this technique that summons the fully realized witch instead of just a partial simulacrum as in the game.]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: She sympathizes with [[spoiler:Homulilly]] even though she's the witch behind the barrier, even saying she's suffering more than anyone she has trapped. [[spoiler:Since Sayaka remembers the previous timelines, she knows the pain of being a witch very well.]]
* TeleportCloak: Sayaka can evidently use her cape to do this, or at least mask her escape. [[spoiler:It comes in handy when Homura attacks her.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Thanks to [[spoiler:retaining memories of previous timelines due to Madoka's influence]], she fights much less erratically and is overall much stronger than before, not particularly from any enhanced strength, but simply using her resources more cleverly and efficiently. She's also capable of summoning [[spoiler:Oktavia as a GuardianEntity, as well as a boatload of witch's familiars.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: She still maintains some brashness, but is overall a lot nicer and more understanding than she was in the original anime. [[spoiler:This is because she has memories of previous timelines.]]

* AgeInappropriateDress: In her demon form, Homura -- who is 14 years old -- wears a revealing SexyBacklessOutfit with a ShowgirlSkirt, cut-out sides, VaporWear, and a NavelDeepNeckline.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Big time. With Devil Homura completely annhilating the Incubators' plans, enslaving them and forcing them to suffer god knows what to apparently provide a counter to entropy at the very end, karma has finally caught up with Kyubey after millenia of manipulating the human species and potentially many others.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: As detailed under TookALevelInJerkass, Kyubey is no longer merely brutally blunt with an [[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien]] morality. Now he openly derides humanity and taunts the girls, all with an airy, cheerful, I'm-objectively-better-than-you-PunyEarthlings tone. This is all on top of going from a passive GreaterScopeVillain indulging in NecessaryEvil to an active BigBad acting out of greed.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Kyubey has [[spoiler:his experiment completely backfire, he gets beaten to a pulp, is enslaved by Devil Homura to absorb the world's curses, and is apparently driven insane by the events of the movie]]. Even then, it's very hard to pity him. See AssholeVictim.

* BeingEvilSucks: She completely hates herself in general, but her self-loathing only worsened when she imprisoned Madoka in her perfect world, and believes that she will no longer have her trust once she inevitably breaks out of it. Homura may rule over her own world, but it's still a SelfInflictedHell for her because [[RegretfulTraitor she won't ever forgive herself for the betrayal that she had to commit]]. In accordance with her thoughts, even her own {{familiar}}s [[ProducePelting throw tomatoes at her]]. And said familiars have names that are a manifestation of Homura's opinion of herself: Arrogance, Sadsack, Liar, Coldheartedness, Selfishness, Slanderer, Dunce, Jealousy, Lazybones, Vanity, Cowardice, Fool, Bias, and Obstinance. Supposedly, there's also one by the name of Love, which is nowhere to be seen.

* DramaticIrony: The final result of her FaceHeelTurn was to trap the world in a LotusEaterMachine where everyone is happy, whether they like it or not. This is the ''modus operandi'' of Kriemhild Gretchen, ''Madoka's own witch'' and the very monster Madoka destroyed to craft a better reality in the first place.

--> '''Homura''': You're going to stay and help...''[[KickTheSonOfABitch In. Cu. Ba. Tor.]]''

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: She usurps the ''goddess of hope''. As a mere afterthought, enslaves and {{mind rape}}s the Incubators.

* FatalFlaw: Homura is still a selfish pessimist who is thoroughly convinced that BeingGoodSucks. Her stalwart loyalty to Madoka keeps her going, but she just ''never'' really understood the benefits of her HeroicSacrifice. It reaches its logical conclusion the very second she starts to (mistakenly) think that Madoka didn't want to make that sacrifice, after which '''[[JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope everything goes wrong]]''' and Homura seizes the first attempt to undo it that she gets, cementing herself as Madoka's [[SatanicArchetype opposite]] in the process.

* AgeInappropriateDress: In her demon form, Homura -- who is physically 14 years old -- wears a revealing SexyBacklessOutfit with a ShowgirlSkirt, cut-out sides, VaporWear, and a NavelDeepNeckline.

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

* CatchPhrase:

* CatchPhrase: "Turn into cheese! Turn into cheese!"

* CatchPhrase: "Fort! Da!" repeated over and over, a reference to a story by Sigmund Freud about a boy who made a game of throwing out his toys.

* NominalVillain: Everything Devil Homura does is motivated by her love for Madoka and desire to finally see her living the happy, normal life she deserves. The only reason why she's treated as a villain is because she didn't ask for Madoka's or anyone's consent before changing their memories and trapping them in a LotusEaterMachine.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Exactly how evil Homura is depends on the viewer's value system: on one hand, her world is portrayed as better since Madoka, Sayaka, and Nagisa are alive. On the other hand, she created said world without anyone's consent. There's also the part where she tells Sayaka that she will destroy the universe once all the wraiths are dealt with, but later on she contradicts this by telling Madoka that she just wants a world where Madoka is happy. It can be said that she has resigned to be a CardCarryingVillain and simply acts the part, because the only people who are explicitly suffering in her new world are Kyubey ([[KickTheSonOfABitch who's pretty hard to pity]]) and Homura herself.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Cheese, to the point where she interrupts an emotional moment between Kyoko and Sayaka to proclaim her love for it. Notably, Mami, who she spends a lot of time with--and was her best friend and saviour from despair as Bebe--is yellow like cheese, which might be a subtle form of ShipTease.