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** To address the gramophone detail: phonograph needles are meant to be discarded after each play. Just like Homuras.
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** To address the gramophone detail: while this also may be the more common reference to a BrokenRecord that keeps repeating the same part over and over, phonograph needles are meant to be discarded after each play. Just like Homuras.
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*** Also, take note that when Homura sings her song, it passes by the other three girls. But look at what Sayaka is doing. She's ''singing along'' and moving her fingers like a conductor with his baton. This can be seen either as her also getting along with the lyrics or a subtle hint that she's trying to subtly guide Homura towards the truth.
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** To address the gramophone detail: phonograph needles are meant to be discarded after each play. Just like Homuras.
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** To address the gramophone detail: phonograph needles are meant to be discarded after each play. Just like Homuras.
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** To address the gramophone detail: phonograph needles are meant to be discarded after each play. Just like Homuras.
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* When Homura introduces herself to class and subtly reveals her soulgem, Kyouko and Madoka are both surprised, while Sayaka seems utterly shocked. Knowing that Sayaka actually knew everything all along, this over-the-top reaction comes across as BadBadActing; Sayaka knew that Homura is a magical girl, but she had to pretend to be surprised, and overacted because she's a poor actress.
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* When Homura introduces herself to the class and subtly reveals her soulgem, Kyouko and Madoka are both surprised, while Sayaka seems utterly shocked. Knowing that Sayaka actually knew everything all along, this over-the-top reaction comes across as BadBadActing; Sayaka knew that Homura is a magical girl, but she had to pretend to be surprised, and overacted because she's a poor actress.
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* When Homura introduces herself to class and subtly reveals her soulgem, Kyouko and Madoka are both surprised, while Sayaka seems utterly shocked. Knowing that Sayaka actually knew everything all along, this over-the-top reaction comes across as BadBadActing; Sayaka knew that Homura is a magical girl, but she had to pretend to be surprised, and overacted because she's a poor actress.
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** She could also be wearing it in reference to [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya a certain other godlike schoolgirl.]] This may be [[WholePlotReference a nod to an oddly similar plotline.]] Spoilers for the ''Haruhi'' anime: The omnipotent girl's powers were stolen by a normally logical and dependable friend, who became emotionally unstable after an exceedingly long GroundhogDayLoop. The latter used the stolen power to construct a more normal and peaceful world for everyone, even though she knows it probably won't last. Is that the plot of ''Rebellion'', or ''Disappearance''? The pre-movie ending of ''Madoka Magica'' is somewhat like the "Haruhi's world" ending of ''Disappearance'', while ''Rebellion'' takes the "Yuki's world" and ''Manga/TheDisappearanceOfNagatoYukiChan'' route.
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** She could also be wearing it in reference to [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya a certain other godlike schoolgirl.]] This may be [[WholePlotReference a nod to an oddly similar plotline.]] Spoilers for the ''Haruhi'' anime: The omnipotent girl's powers were stolen by a normally logical and dependable friend, who became emotionally unstable after an exceedingly long GroundhogDayLoop. The latter used the stolen power to construct a more normal and peaceful world for everyone, even though she knows it probably won't last. Is that the plot of ''Rebellion'', or ''Disappearance''? The pre-movie ending of ''Madoka Magica'' is somewhat like the "Haruhi's world" ending of ''Disappearance'', while ''Rebellion'' takes the "Yuki's world" and ''Manga/TheDisappearanceOfNagatoYukiChan'' route.
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** Kyoko is an apple because it is now her TrademarkFavoriteFood with boosted significance from ''The Different Story''.
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** Kyoko is an apple because it is now her TrademarkFavoriteFood with boosted significance from ''The Different Story''. The apple also carries religious significance, being the fruit that Eve ate in the Garden of Eden, and Kyoko's wish was for people to flock to her father's Christian church.
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** Nagisa's side story in Magia Record revealed that she wasn't particularly eager to return to the Law of Cycles, so it's also possible that she remembers exactly what Homura did and just doesn't care.
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* Homura's Witch form, Homulilly, bears the epithet of the Nutcracker Witch. Her official character page calls her useless because she cannot break any more nuts. As a magical girl, Homura's duty was to kill witches, which were formerly magical girls driven to madness and despair. And what is another word for an insane person? A "nut."
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* Homura's Witch form, Homulilly, bears the epithet of the Nutcracker Witch. Her official character page calls her useless because she cannot break any more nuts. As a magical girl, Homura's duty was to kill witches, which were formerly magical girls driven to madness and despair. And what "Nut" is another a slang word for an insane person? A "nut."person, and so "breaking nuts," in this context, can be taken to mean killing witches and therefore putting insane former magical girls out of their misery.
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* During Homura and Madoka's conversation in the flower field, the daisies transform into dandelions. Considering that you could blow on a dandelion to make a wish...
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* During Homura and Madoka's conversation in the flower field, the daisies transform into dandelions. Considering Many people believe that if you could make a wish and blow on a dandelion to make a wish... scatter the seeds into the air, it will come true.
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** It's not that she's omitting information so that Madoka will tell her she wants to hear, it's that as far as she's concerned, the information she's leaving out ''doesn't matter''. She already knows all too well how willing Madoka is to sacrifice herself for others; what she ''doesn't'' know is whether or not Madoka would choose AbstractApotheosis if she wasn't being emotionally blackmailed into it by one of Kyubey's engineered disasters.
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** Kyoko taps her fingers in a rhythm on the table, as if she was trying to keep time to a song. Sayaka's crush is a musician.
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** Kyoko taps her fingers in a rhythm on the table, as if she was trying to keep keeping time to a song. Sayaka's crush is a musician.musician, and her wish was to heal his injury so he could play his beloved violin again.
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** The song finishes with "it's round and plump, so everyone eat up!" Madoka's wish was made to fulfill the happiness of everyone.
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** Kyoko taps her fingers in a rhythm on the table, as musicians -- like Sayaka's crush -- are wont to do.
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** Kyoko taps her fingers in a rhythm on the table, as musicians -- like if she was trying to keep time to a song. Sayaka's crush -- are wont to do.is a musician.
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*** The series also mirrors the fully amoral hard truth about Homura's actions: yes, they were selfishly motivated, but if she hadn't taken the actions she did, Kyubey would've won the long game. Without Homura's time-looping, Madoka never would have been able to wish away the Witch system. Without Homura stealing Madoka out of the Law of Cycles, there's nothing to protect her from the harm Kyubey can do to her now that he's proven she's an ultrapowerful magical girl and not just a law of physics. It's a necessary evil in a Gospel of Judas Iscariot kind of way.
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* In the beginning scenes, when the Nightmare goes through several windows before ''Mada Dame Yo'' gets played, each window has its own wall around it and it uses several that refer to previous witches fought in the series. One more early foreshadowing that Homura is the witch of the labyrinth, as she'd be the only one to remember witches and had fought them previously.
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** It's not that she regained them, she always had them- that was the gift Madoka gave her with her ribbons, the ability to remember the old universe and Madoka's mortal self. It was when she started to doubt that her memories were real that she started to fall to despair, and when her Soul Gem went dark and she became Homulilly within her own Soul Gem, ''that's'' when she loses her memory of the ''current'' reality and just falls back into her old persona by default because that's where all her despair lives: you can tell because she has the buckler instead of the bow while inside the isolation field, but she has the bow and the red ribbon in the real world outside of it.
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** That makes it extra tragic that Sayaka blabs the plan to everybody in earshot...
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* When exactly did Homura re-gain her memories, especially those of witches? During her transformation sequence, there are messages flashed in runes. Disturbing messages flash quickly during her transformation sequence, and a message, likely her familiars saying that they are bored (likely becauese the transformation sequence is long or they're just bored of Homura's transformation sequence). Because of the nature of the random flashes of disturbing scenery, perhaps this is the equivalent of having PTSD flashbacks. Furthermore, since Homura is a witch, only she would be able to actually read the runes!
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* When exactly did Homura re-gain her memories, especially those of witches? During her transformation sequence, there are messages flashed in runes. Disturbing messages flash quickly during her transformation sequence, and a message, likely her familiars saying that they are bored (likely becauese the transformation sequence is long or they're just bored of Homura's transformation sequence). Because of the nature of the random flashes of disturbing scenery, perhaps this is the equivalent of to having PTSD flashbacks.flashbacks ("they glorify death"). Furthermore, since Homura is a witch, only she would be able to actually read the runes!
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* When exactly did Homura re-gain her memories, especially those of witches? During her transformation sequence, there are messages flashed in runes. Disturbing messages flash quickly during her transformation sequence, and a message, likely her familiars saying that they are bored (likely becauese the transformation sequence is long or they're just bored of Homura's transformation sequence). Because of the nature of the random flashes of disturbing scenery, perhaps this is the equivalent of having PTSD flashbacs. Furthermore, since Homura is a witch, only she would be able to actually read the runes!
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* When exactly did Homura re-gain her memories, especially those of witches? During her transformation sequence, there are messages flashed in runes. Disturbing messages flash quickly during her transformation sequence, and a message, likely her familiars saying that they are bored (likely becauese the transformation sequence is long or they're just bored of Homura's transformation sequence). Because of the nature of the random flashes of disturbing scenery, perhaps this is the equivalent of having PTSD flashbacs.flashbacks. Furthermore, since Homura is a witch, only she would be able to actually read the runes!
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* When exactly did Homura re-gain her memories, especially those of witches? During her transformation sequence, there are messages flashed in runes. Disturbing messages flash quickly during her transformation sequence, and a message, likely her familiars saying that they are bored (likely becauese the transformation sequence is long or they're just bored of Homura's transformation sequence). Because of the nature of the random flashes of disturbing scenery, perhaps this is the equivalent of having PTSD flashbacs. Furthermore, since Homura is a witch, only she would be able to actually read the runes!
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* Looking back between the anime and the movie(s), despite being mortal enemies, Kyubey and Homura really [[NotSoDifferent aren't so different]]. Both of them are willing to muck around with reality for something more ideal, and both of them [[LackOfEmpathy understand jack squat about the emotions of others]], [[EvilCannotComprehendGood especially the capability to be selfless]]. Neither of them understood why Madoka became a {{God}} during the anime, they didn't understand it during the movie, and they didn't understand it afterward.
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** Since we never get to see ''how'' exactly Sayaka escapes, perhaps this is a CrazyAwesome moment? Anime/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory further reveals that she is ''incredibly'' fast, so perhaps she went so fast that she ''outran the re-modification of the universe!!'' Which also implies that she somehow went '''outside of it'''. Holy Madoka, Sayaka.
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* How did Homura vanquish Sayaka's Octavia? AllThereInTheManual states that Sayaka needs a body of water in order to summon Oktavia. However, because Homura made her cup overflow with her own magic substance, Sayaka lost a viable source of water to pull from.
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** Since we never get to see ''how'' exactly Sayaka escapes, perhaps this is a CrazyAwesome moment? Anime/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory further reveals that she is ''incredibly'' fast, so perhaps she went so fast that she ''outran the re-modification of the universe!!'' Which also implies that she somehow went '''outside of it'''. Holy Madoka, Sayaka.
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** It's extremely likely that the beginning of the movie was indeed the beginning of the ''Labyrinth''. Evidence for this is that most timeskips in the movie are actual timeskips in-universe (Homura skipping to the scene when she was with Madoka on the grass, Homura skipping from her fight with Mami to suddenly being on the boat etc.), adding this is the fact that we only ever get to see two Nightmares in the entire movie. If the magical girls fought more Nightmares as they have implied "the Nightmares have been getting stronger lately.", then we should've seen more Nightmares. Homura figured it out because she couldn't remember her adventures before the events of the movie.
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* If the moon is supposed to symbolise Homura and Madoka's love (the moon being cut in half symbolising that a piece of Homura's life- Madoka, is missing), then Homura falling into the full-moon after meeting Madoka symbolises her falling in love.
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** Homura's new Soul Gem more resembles the crown of the queen piece in chess with the round ball in the center. Continuing with the pawn analogy, a pawn can become a queen by making it to the other side of the board, essentially invading enemy territory. Homura does this by usurping the Incubators and Madoka, essentially transforming from a piece designed to be sacrificed into a piece with the most power on the board.
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*** [[WildMassGuessing What if that's its true goal?]] I mean, think about it. With a system like that eventually Kyuubey would get to that point...
