History Characters / PuellaMagiOrikoMagica

%%* OutGambitted: By Kyubey. ''And'' she out-gambits Homura, if only [[GroundhogDayLoop temporarily]].]

* {{Seers}}: Her powers appear to let her see the future.

%%* StudentCouncilPresident: At least she used to be.

* EmoTeen: In her pre-wish phase, she was depicted as a morose, depressed, and asocial jerk looking for a purpose. It makes it particularly evident how much it changed her, given her attitude by the time of the series.

* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Between the coat, the eyepatch, the black color scheme, the belts, and the claws, her general design seems to be something an angsty teen would come up with. Which Kirika is, so there you go.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: To Oriko. [[spoiler:Invoked; Kirika was a depressed loner who ''wished'' to become one of these so Oriko would like her.]] In ''Extra Story'', she mostly stays in this territory, as a quirky, good-natured, and childish sort--in ''Sadness Prayer'' and the original manga, she dips into something much darker.

* SkippingSchool: Unlike most of the cast, Kirika is very rarely seen in her school uniform, with the implication that she's stopped bothering to go by the time of the manga as she's busy with killing magical girls and fighting witches.

* WhipSword: Uses her claws like this in ''Noisy Citrine''

* ThrowTheDogABone: Ultimately, the life of Sayaka Miki [[ForWantOfANail is purely dependent on if she becomes a magical girl or not.]] [[spoiler:If she is one, WordOfGod from ''Madoka Magica'' [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption states that she is doomed to become a witch and die (or just outright die)]]. Here, she isn't one and more than makes up for that given the situation her friends and she is in.]]

* NeverASelfMadeWoman: An InvokedTrope, as after her father's fall from grace, she basically thinks that people only saw her father in her, liking her because he was respectable and shunning her because of what he had done. She thus makes her wish to find a purpose for her life.
** Played With: ''Sadness Prayer'' reveals that Oriko's father only went into politics to begin with as a way to regain his estranged family's favour so that they would help Oriko, seeing far greater potential in her than he ever did in himself. This only led Oriko's life to worsen.

* GoodIsNotNice: Moral and paragon she aims to be, Mami was not hesitant to aim to put Kirika down in their fight. The fact she technically didn't aim her guns right (she didn't aim at Kirika's soul gem) was besides the point: her response to a serial killer was lethal force.

* SecondaryColorAntagonist: She's a cruel and ruthless sociopath with an orange color scheme.

* FakingTheDead: In ''Sadness Prayer'', exploits the fact that a magical girl's Soul Gem must be destroyed to truly kill them in order to make it seem to Sasa as though she was dead.

* LoveAtFirstPunch: ''Sadness Prayer'' reveals that in the ''Oriko Magica'' timeline, this was how she first got properly involved with Oriko; she attacked her basically just to blow off steam, and Oriko realized that Kirika could be a capable pawn and recruited her after managing to defeat her.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: To Oriko. [[spoiler: Invoked; Kirika was a depressed loner who ''wished'' to become one of these so Oriko would like her.]] In ''Extra Story'', she mostly stays in this territory, as a quirky, good-natured, and childish sort--in ''Sadness Prayer'' and the original manga, she dips into something much darker.

* OneWingedAngel: When Kirika figured out that she can't defeat [[spoiler:Homura and the other magical girls, she turns herself into a Witch]].

* SatelliteLoveInterest: Almost on purpose; as the story progresses, it seems that Kirika has no purpose, friends, family, or traits beyond being an extension of what Oriko wants, which is the result of her wish.

Appearing in ''Extra Story''. A magical girl trying to claim her own territory in Mitakihara.

* AccidentalSuicide: [[spoiler:She crushes her soul gem]] in her hand after [[spoiler:learning the truth about witches]]. It's suggested that Sasa did not realize that [[spoiler:soul gems were actually souls]] and thought that [[spoiler:crushing her soul gem]] would stop her from [[spoiler:becoming a witch]], which makes her death accidental.

** [[spoiler: She tries to kill Oriko in ''Sadness Prayer'' after she notices Oriko deliberately made a magical girl despair and turn into a witch. Oriko gets better.]]

* SmugSnake: A bratty, condescending magical girl with little power except MindControl to her name.
* SmallNameBigEgo: She bites off more than she can chew with the Kazamino magical girls and is forced to flee to Mitakihara without the majority of her witches.

* UnwittingPawn: In ''Sadness Prayer'', [[spoiler: Oriko uses her and her feud with the Kazamino City magical girls to get a look at Homura's powers.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Gets impaled ''through the head'' by Kirika's claws, largely due to the other girl swinging at her on pure instinct. What's more, she actually survives long enough to utter a DyingClue, suggesting she took a while (likely due to her enhanced durability) to actually die]].

* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Thought to be one by her friends due to her sneaking out at night. [[spoiler: Turns out she's actually a magical girl.]]

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:She treats poor Yuma like utter dirt by burning her head with cigarettes, as well as verbally and physically abusing her daughter in other ways. It's pretty unsurprising that the way she dies to a witch is actually cheered by most.]]
** [[spoiler: Oriko in ''Symmetry Diamond'' sees a vision showing that Mako's abuse will eventually kill Yuma if not stopped.]]

%%* BrainwashedAndCrazy: By a witch's kiss.

* ForWantOfANail: Survived in this timeline because she wasn't showing off to Madoka in her fight against Charlotte.

* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler:Has something of a FreakOut when she learns where witches come from, but snaps out of it thanks to Yuma.]]

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Through taking in Yuma Kyoko softens from her {{Jerkass}} nature into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in this adaptation.

* PluckyGirl: Though she has no powers in this universe, she still defends her friends from familiars attacking them.

* BoobsOfSteel: She's very well-endowed, as well as being a competent fighter provided she has magic.

%%* BoobsOfSteel: In Yuma's ImagineSpot in a bonus panel in ''Extra Story'', she imagines herself in the future with an impressive bust.

!Homura Akemi '''(Unmarked Spoilers)'''

* NotSoStoic: ''Sadness Prayer'' is clear that Oriko is very troubled under her stoic facade and only holds on because she believes she is the only one with the resolve necessary to save the world from Kriemhild Gretchen. Notably, Komaki's death disturbs her, and her grandfather's reveal that he hated her family and used her father as a fall man]] has her nearly despair completely, as does her thought that [[spoiler:by seeing Kriemhild Gretchen, the meaning of her life was that she should hurry up and die.

* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Witches killed her parents.

* IWishedYouWereDead: [[spoiler:Admits she's not really sad that her parents are dead because of the way they abused her]], though she doesn't want to be alone.

* AccidentalSuicide: [[spoiler:Crushes her soul gem]] in her hand after [[spoiler:learning the truth about witches]]. It's suggested that Sasa did not realize that [[spoiler:soul gems were actually souls]] and thought that [[spoiler:crushing her soul gem]] would stop her from [[spoiler:becoming a witch]], which makes her death accidental.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:She's incinerated by Homura, but seeing as she's a sociopath...]]

** [[spoiler: Tries to kill Oriko in ''Sadness Prayer'' after she notices Oriko deliberately made a magical girl despair and turn into a witch. She gets better.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Calls Oriko trash for having no offensive powers when she herself has no power besides her control over [[spoiler: witches.]]

* SmallNameBigEgo: Bites off more than she can chew with the Kazamino magical girls and is forced to flee to Mitakihara without the majority of her witches.
* TheSociopath: Has absolutely no care or empathy for anyone but herself.

* BystanderSyndrome: Disapproves of all the magical girl conflict as it causes him to lose out on their energy, but does nothing to directly influence it.

* PragmaticVillainy: Dislikes the conflict between magical girls not because he cares about their welfare, but because it's wasteful.
* WouldHurtAChild: Obviously, given that it's Kyubey, but takes it even farther in this series by contracting Yuma, an elementary student, rather than his usual teen-aged targets.

Only appears in ''Oriko Magica''.

%%zce* BigSisterInstinct: Towards Yuma.

%%zce* DontCallMeSir: She says something like this to Yuma.

Only appears in ''Oriko Magica''.

!Homura Akemi
Only appears in ''Oriko Magica''.

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: [[spoiler:[[WhatTheHellHero Gets called out by Madoka herself.]] Although she has a justifiable reason that even Mami notes: It's impossible to do everything and save everyone, save you might as well save who you can.]]

* DemotedToExtra: Only appears briefly in volume 1, though her role is expanded dramatically in volume 2.
* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler:She fails to save Madoka, obviously.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:She's correct that it's impossible to save everyone during the attack on the school, as Mami makes a similar point herself. Unfortunately, Madoka is also one of the people she's unable to save]].
* NotSoStoic: When [[spoiler: Madoka says it would be better not to save her if she will let the others die,]] Homura has a small FreakOut moment.
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler:By Oriko. So Homura thought that killing Oriko would save Madoka? [[PyrrhicVictory It didn't.]] Oriko still managed to kill her. Subverted because that didn't stop Homura from [[StoryBreakerPower turning back the clock]] and somehow ensuring that Oriko wasn't a factor in subsequent timelines.]]

* DemotedToExtra: Makes only a two panel appearance in volume 1, though her role is expanded somewhat in volume 2.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Ultimately, the life of Sayaka Miki [[ForWantOfANail is purely dependent on if she becomes a magical girl or not.]] [[spoiler:If she is one, WordOfGod from ''Madoka Magica'' [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption states that she is doomed to become a witch and die (or just outright die). Every time]]. Here, she isn't one and more than makes up for that given the situation her friends and she is in.]]

* MisaimedFandom: In-universe, her favorite novel is stated to be ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'', and she's suggested to have sympathized with Rodion from a young age. However, she was confused about some major elements then, such as why Rodion would feel guilty about something he was so sure about before. In the modern day, the problem is furthered, as the philosophies espoused in the book are ''very'' counter to Oriko's current actions and motives. (The novel does have a long history of provoking this reaction...)