History Fridge / PuellaMagimadokaMagica

** Now that you put it like that, it makes the fact that the series is [[SeinenDemographic Seinen]]...kind of [[NoYay unintentionally creepy]] when you consider how another thing the series has in common with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is the MisaimedMarketing (albeit more {{Moe}} than Ecchi ,but it sometimes gets close to the later).

* Why does Kyubey, a StarfishAlien, {{Hive Mind}}ed EldritchAbomination, look like [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter an adorable mutant cat thing with big floppy ears]]? (I mean in-universe, not just because CuteIsEvil) His form was ''designed'' to appeal to teenage Japanese girls; it's a trick to help him lure his victims. The CatSmile was chosen as the "cutest" expression, but due to his difficulty with emotions, he doesn't know what it should be in different circumstances, and [[FrozenFace leaves it the same]] to be on the safe side. The main thing that makes him seem a bit creepy in the show is the way his voice and expression never change no matter what's happening; show a still screenshot of him to someone and they'll usually go "D'aww!" Which is exactly what he's aiming for.

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*** And '''Walpurgisnacht''' is speculated to be Homura, and it does make sence considering that for as long as witches exist, if she were to stay in one reality for long enough, she would change into a witch. And since '''Walpurgisnacht''' always arrives on the time of Walpurgisnacht, which is Homura's time of real despair, I wouldn't be surprised if this were true.

** Madoka's bow is representative of her powerful will. A bow cannot block, and cannot face close combat. It can only strike from afar, yet it can hit with precision, like how she will do anything to enact her will no matter how far-fetched it is. While unable to influence things directly anymore as no one but Homura remembers her, she takes her place 'behind the scenes'. A bow is also a very simple weapon, which is how Madoka sees herself, and what she appears to be. But a bow is deadly in the hands of an ArcherArchetype, and its long range means that you probably won't see the arrows coming...

* If you listen to Sayaka's theme song, ''Decretum'', you'll notice that the song starts off with guitar in the background and then transitions to violins. In Episode 10, we find out that before Homura started messing with time, Kyousuke, who was a primary element in Sayaka's wish making and witching out, used to play the guitar, but Homura's interference made him a violinist.

* Mami ignoring Homura's reprimand that she is bringing innocents into a dangerous battle in Episode 2 makes more sense when you consider a fundamental fact about Mami: she's not just ignoring the potential danger to Madoka and Sayaka for her own benefit, she's fundamentally GenreBlind. She thinks she's in a show more like Sailor Moon/Cardcaptor Sakura, when she's actually in a magical girl show somewhere between Evangelion and Utena. That she ignores Homura's warning makes sense - in her mind the script is supposed to go 'maybe Sayaka and Madoka will face danger as Magical Girls but we'll get through it together!' Given Madoka's potential, her having this view makes even more sense. The same can be said of her battle with Charlotte - she's overconfident partially as a result of her joy at having someone ready to contract with her, but also partially because it hasn't really sunk in that she can die in this battle. It also makes sense given her age - children and teenagers are said to think of themselves as immortal, because they're just too young for death to have any real meaning to them. That Homura acts so much older than her age and treats the battles with the gravity they deserve shows how much death she's had to deal with in multiple timelines - she's both literally and figuratively older than anyone else.

* Walpurgis Night uses [[KillItWithFire fire attacks]] and the holiday itself is associated with [[BurnTheWitch bonfires]]. Homura uses [[MoreDakka military-grade explosives and artillery]]. It suddenly makes a lot more sense other than just SuperWeight for [[NoSell Walpurgis]] to be [[RequiredSecondaryPowers completely unfazed]] by anything Homura does.- g3m1n1

* The most selfish wishes tend to lead to the worst outcomes for the characters. Mami's wish was apparently to survive after a car crash, she says that she didn't really have time to think about it, while Kyouko's was for people to listen to her father because she genuinely believed that he was saying the right things, and that people needed to hear them. Mami died a fairly random death in a fight with a witch, while Kyouko peformed a heroic sacrifice to take out Sayaka's witch form. Compare those to Sayaka, whose wish was for someone else, but who made it because she ultimately wanted to benefit because she was in love with them, and Homura, who initially made her wish because wanted to go back and save Madoka despite Madoka willingly going into the fight knowing that it was likely she could die. Sayaka is turned into a witch, while Homura repeatedly goes back in time, but ultimately fails in the series because, like before, Madoka makes a choice that essentially leads to Homura losing her in a different way, and only succeeds in Rebellion by becoming a villain - and she still loses Madoka.