History Tearjerker / PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion

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* Homura [[spoiler: transforming into a witch]] is a cross between this and NightmareFuel. You can see her drowning in despair and [[spoiler: slowly losing her humanity]]. In the end she becomes [[AndIMustScream unable to do anything but suffer]], [[spoiler: while everything about her Witch shows [[DeathSeeker how much she yearns for death]]]].
** Tying into that, Homura [[spoiler: slowly realising she is a witch. Her voice when she says it out loud is so full of grief and despair.]]
*** The line [[spoiler: "Madoka...thank you for coming all the way to a place like this. I'm sorry I couldn't even say goodbye to you at the end."]] is truly heartbreaking.

-->'''Homura:''' I was so lonely and sad...but no one could understand how I felt! Surrounded by that, I started thinking my memories of you were just something I made up!

*** Depends on if the audience buys the idea that the two misunderstood each other in this scene; given that Ultimate Madoka is around everyone, all the time, she technically wasn't far away from her friends at all. Which means that she was okay with her decision, but Homura [[spoiler: misreads her and comes to the conclusion that Madoka wasn't happy with her fate.]] Double oops.
* The witch's familiars are reflecting the soul of the Magical Girl. [[spoiler: Homura's familiars are seen committing suicide.]] How much must a girl hate herself to imagine something like this?
** It gets worse as you think more about it: [[spoiler: Homulilly is the witch with the most familiars, counting 18 with Clara Dolls as a whole, and ''[[http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Rebellion_Material_Book#Witches_Artwork each one of them]] [[http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Homulilly#Lotte represents something Homura thought or felt about herself.]]'' All of this was in Homura's heart, she hates herself this much.]]

** On the other hand, there IS a [[RayOfHopeEnding more optimistic]] interpretation: [[spoiler: that after spending so much time with a gap between them, Homura and Madoka may very well reconcile and truly be together. Only time will tell.]]

Many ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' fans have stated that this movie has created a very long road of recovering from this traumatic and emotionally scarring movie, '''and with good reason'''.

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* ''Noi'', the creepy little song [[spoiler: the Clara Dolls sing as Homura's becoming a witch. Despite sounding rather chipper, it's pretty much the Clara Dolls singing about how [[ShootTheShaggyDog everything Homura did was utterly pointless]], that Madoka's gone for good and they'd never be reunited, and they [[DrivenToSuicide might as well end it all.]] In other words, Homura's DespairEventHorizon in musical form.]]

* Spider lilies, the flowers heavily associated with Homura's witch form can mean: never to meet again, lost memory, or abandonment. All of these meanings are equally valid for Homura's mental state and equally tragic.

* All the talk about whether Homura [[MemeticMutation did nothing or everything wrong]], or even [[BrokenBase whether you thought this was a worthy sequel]] aside, [[spoiler:what we still have here is a horribly lonely, mentally broken, suicidally depressed train wreck of a girl who declared herself the devil because that's how she sees herself, and even worse, unlike Sayaka, couldn't find peace after death. By the movie's end, she's completely and utterly alone in a self-inflicted purgatory of self-loathing and fathomless, crushing guilt, and as far as she's concerned, ''she deserves it''. ]]
** And even more so, [[spoiler:she did it all for the sake of someone who had simply showed her a little kindness. This how broken she must have already been when it all started if she did it not even for a friend or a family member, but simply for the one person who was kind to her. And in the end, she is still doing it all for the same reason she made her wish, to stop that one person from sacrificing herself, because ''she'' doesn't want to lose that person, that bit of kindness she got]]. Let that sink in, people.

* All the talk about whether Homura [[MemeticMutation did nothing or everything wrong]], or even [[BrokenBase whether you thought this was a worthy sequel]] aside, [[spoiler:what we still have here is a horribly lonely, mentally broken, suicidally depressed train wreck of a girl who declared herself the devil because that's how she sees herself, and even worse, unlike Sayaka, couldn't find peace after death]].

* Your mileage may vary, but Madoka's transformation in the Holy Quintet sequence. Sure, it's cutesy and bubbly and sparkly and whatnot, but one of the most heartbreaking aspects of the anime is the fact that the cute, brightly-colored, beautiful and powerful aspects of being a magical girl are only a cheap varnish on an ugly, ugly reality, and one of the most uplifting aspects is that Madoka gives up not just her life, but her very existence, to give them all some of that hope and light back. Where Mami breaks out of a delicate-looking shell, and Sayaka runs full-force into herself, and Kyoko tears through her own burning, enraged reflection, and Homura leaps after something out of reach, a chorus line of infinite, yet distant, Madokas dances and cheers them on. She always said being a magical girl would be enough for her, and that scene does a beautiful job of showing how right she was. Her character theme was already a fast-track to messy crying, the bubbly, happy version is even moreso.

* All the talk about whether Homura [[MemeticMutation did nothing or everything wrong]], or even [[BrokenBase whether you thought this was a worthy sequel]] aside, [[spoiler:what we still have here is a mentally broken, suicidally depressed train wreck of a girl who declared herself the devil because that's how she sees herself, and even worse, unlike Sayaka, couldn't find peace after death]].

* Your mileage may vary, but Madoka's transformation in the Holy Quintet sequence. Sure, it's cutesy and bubbly and sparkly and whatnot, but one of the most heartbreaking aspects of the anime is the fact that the cute, brightly-colored, beautiful and powerful aspects of being a magical girl are only a cheap varnish on an ugly, ugly reality, and one of the most uplifting aspects is that Madoka gives up not just her life, but her very existence, to give them all some of that hope and light back. Where Mami breaks out of a delicate-looking shell, and Sayaka runs full-force into herself, and Kyoko tears through her own burning, enraged reflection, and Homura leaps after something out of reach, a chorus line of infinite, yet distant, Madokas dances and cheers them on. She always said being a magical girl would be enough for her, and that scene does a beautiful job of showing how right she was. Her character theme was already a fast-track to messy crying, the bubbly, happy version is even moreso.

** And even more so, [[spoiler:she did it all for the sake of someone who had simply showed her a little kindness. This how broken she must have already been when it all started if she did it not even for a friend or a family member, but simply for the one person who was kind to her. And in the end, she is still doing it all for the same reason she made her wish, to stop that one person from sacrificing herself, because ''she'' doesn't want to lose that person, that bit of kindness she got]]. Let that sink in, people.

--> ''Homura:'' I was so lonely and sad...but no one could understand how I felt! Surrounded by that, I started thinking my memories of you were just something I made up!

** And earlier when they both had perfect kill shots for each other you can see they're both panicked for a second, because they don't want to actually permanently harm the other.

** Then Madoka tells her that she would never have wanted to leave everyone behind, and Homura crumbles entirely. Those ''EYES''. The look of ''HORROR'' on her face as she realizes the extent of her failure: she may not have saved Madoka's life, but she was content with Madoka's sacrifice so long as Madoka was happy. Now she finds out that Madoka did it out of her sense of duty and was NOT, in fact, happy with her situation. '''OUCH'''.

** Then Madoka tells her that she would never have wanted to leave everyone behind, and Homura crumbles entirely. Those ''EYES''. Her [[HeroicBSOD goddamn expression]] as she realizes the extent of her failure: she may not have saved Madoka's life, but she was content with Madoka's sacrifice so long as Madoka was happy. Now she finds out that Madoka did it out of her sense of duty and was NOT, in fact, happy with her situation. '''OUCH'''.

* All the talk about whether Homura [[MemeticMutation did nothing or everything wrong]], or even [[BrokenBase whether you thought this was a worthy sequel]] aside, [[spoiler:what we still have here is a mentally broken, suicidally depressed girl who declared herself the devil because that's how she sees herself, and even worse, unlike Sayaka, couldn't find peace after death]].

* All the talk about whether Homura [[MemeticMutation did nothing or everything wrong]], or even [[BrokenBase whether you thought this was a worthy sequel]] aside, [[spoiler:what we still have here is a mentally broken, suicidally depressed girl who declared herself the devil because that's how she sees herself, and even worse, unlike Sayaka, couldn't find peace after death]].

* Spider lilies, the flowers heavily associated with Homura's witch form, mean never to meet again, lost memory, or abandonment. All of these meanings are equally valid for Homura's mental state and equally tragic.

* All the talk about whether Homura [[MemeticMutation did nothing or everything wrong]], or even [[BrokenBase whether you thought this was a worthy sequel]] aside, [[spoiler:what we still have here is a deeply disturbed, borderline suicidally depressed girl who declared herself the devil because that's how she sees herself, and even worse, unlike Sayaka, couldn't find peace after death]].

* All the talk about whether Homura [[MemeticMutation nothing or everything wrong]], or even [[BrokenBase whether you thought this was a worthy sequel]] aside, [[spoiler:what we still have here is a deeply depressed, borderline suicidal girl who made herself into a villain partly because that's how she sees herself, and even worse, unlike Sayaka, couldn't find peace after death]].

** Kyubey is flat out immune to physical and mental abuse. However, in this scene, his appearance might suggest [[spoiler: he's ''scared out of his wits''. It would be very much in Homura's character to KickTheSonOfABitch by making him go through what she and other magical girls experienced - and so, the worst punishment for him would be ''making him able to feel emotions''. Raw animalistic fear would be a fitting reaction once he realizes just how badly is he screwed. Who knows, he might very well feeling remorse and thinking "MyGodWhatHaveIDone"]]