History Characters / StarsAbove

%%* DropTheHammer: One of the forms of her signature Star weapon, Heshioru.

%%* NamedWeapons: '''[[PunnyName Ko]]'''[[PunnyName nagi]]'''[[PunnyName nata]]'''.

* CloningBlues: She isn't exactly thrilled with taking care of her seven-year-old clone, [[Manga/PuellaMagiKazumiMagica Kanna]], but they seem to enjoy each other's company by the end.

%%* BladeOnAStick: Her signature weapon in Star form is a naginata with in IncrediblyLamePun for a name.

%%* ADateWithRosiePalms: Kagami thinks of Homura during a bath, leading to this.

%%* IllGirl: As the original Homura was prior to contracting and becoming a Puella Magi. Kagami fixes this.

%%* {{Meganekko}}: Her glasses are hiding a secret...

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!!Kagami Hiiragi/[[spoiler: Star White]]

!!Tsukasa Hiiragi/[[spoiler: Star Black]]

!!Konata Izumi/[[spoiler: Star Blue]]

!!Miyuki Takara/[[spoiler: Star Pink]]

!!Homura Akemi
The 2007 version of Homura. Kagami visits her after the future Homura dies, in order to cure her illness.

!!Kagami Hiiragi

!!Tsukasa Hiiragi

!!Mami Tomoe

!!Kyoko Sakura

!!Yuma Chitose

!!Kazumi

!!The First (Serafino)

The Demon of Limbo. An enormous worm that resembles a bullet train with three sets of bloodstained teeth.

!!The Second (Desideria)

The Demon of Lust. A shapeshifter with an affinity for mirrors. [[spoiler:She traps Miyuki inside the lens of her glasses and impersonates her for most of the story, seducing Tsukasa in order to feed on her Heart. Her true form is a catlike ''thing'' made of tongues and eyes. After accidentally reading the mind of the Ninth and discovering his true murderous intentions, she set in place an elaborate plan to replace herself with one of her Spawn and fake her own death... only to return and kill the Ninth when everyone least expected it.]]

!!The Third (Ciacco)

The Demon of Gluttony. A giant, emaciated dog with three eyes and a stomach filled with maggots.

!!The Fourth (Gaspare)

The Demon of Greed. A knight composed of solid lead, with veins of gold and silver. It carries a golden lance and a silver shield.

!!The Fifth (Geppetto)

The Demon of Wrath. It resembles a wooden puppet's hand, with six fingers and animated carved faces on each fingertip.

!!The Sixth (Jovanni)

The Demon of Heresy. It takes the form of a demonic, twisted cathedral composed of volcanic rock, with stained glass windows for eyes.

!!The Seventh (Duilio)

The Demon of Violence. A Demon with the appearance of a three-story tall skinned minotaur, with a bull's skull for a head and a chest composed of the flayed corpses of its victims woven together.

!!The Eighth (Giustino)

The Demon of Fraud.. It takes the form of a snake head statue that does not move. Its Spawn take the form of the friends and loved ones of their foes, and taunt them to drive them into despair.

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%%* NamedWeapon: Yukitamashii, a bracelet made of pearl-white ''magatama'' beads.

!!Kagami Hiiragi/Star White

!!Tsukasa Hiiragi/Star Black

!!Konata Izumi/Star Blue

!!Miyuki Takara/Star Pink

!!Homura Akemi/Star Violet

!!Kagami Hiiragi Star White

!!Tsukasa Hiiragi Star Black

!!Konata Izumi Star Blue

!!Miyuki Takara Star Pink

!!Homura Akemi[=/=]Star Violet

%%* GoOutWithASmile: Following the below trope.

!!Kagami Hiiragi [[spoiler:Star White]]

* [[spoiler:ADateWithRosiePalms: Kagami thinks of Homura during a bath, leading to this.]]
* [[spoiler:AntiMagic: In Kyubey's words, she has the power to repel and reject magic.]]
* [[spoiler:ApocalypseMaiden: Overlaps with...]]
* [[spoiler:BarrierMaiden: She and Tsukasa are the "multiversal focal points" that hold all universes together.]]
* [[spoiler:EnemyWithin: A bit of Vittoria apparently exists within her, pushing her to ruin her life. After the essence of Vittoria is forcibly extracted and absorbed by Desideria, this is no longer the case.]]
* [[spoiler:KatanasAreJustBetter / BlackSwordsAreBetter: Her signature weapon as a [[MagicalGirl Star]], Kurokami.]]
* [[spoiler:[[NamedWeapons Named Weapon:]] [[MeaningfulName Kurokami]], her katana, named after the color of Homura's hair.]]

* [[spoiler:PowerGivesYouWings: The shadows of black feathered wings emerge from her back when she's seriously pissed off. Her Star form makes the wings solid, with points of starlight.]]
* [[spoiler:StarCrossedLovers: With Homura, after the latter dies.]]
* WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter: After joining the kendo club, she starts using a white oak ''bokken'' to help fight Demons. [[spoiler:Until it gets broken... She replaces it later with a real one in her Star form.]]

!!Tsukasa Hiiragi [[spoiler:Star Black]]

* [[spoiler:AntiMagic: In a different way than Kagami's AntiMagic - rather than nullify magic, she can absorb it like a magnet (as the Seventh found out).]]
** [[spoiler:And Desideria learns the hard way that she can also throw absorbed magic ''[[ReturnToSender back]]'' once she gains her powers as a full-fledged Star.]]
* [[spoiler:BarrierMaiden: See Kagami's entry above.]]
* BetaCouple: With Miyuki, [[spoiler:actually the Second in disguise.]]
* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession: By the Seventh, after she takes it into her body.]]
** [[spoiler:HeroicWillpower: She manages to fight it off and destroy it, even after it subjects her to some nasty MindRape.]]
* [[spoiler:NamedWeapon: Yukitamashii, a bracelet made of pearl-white ''magatama'' beads.]]
* [[spoiler:PowerGivesYouWings: Similar to Kagami's, but hers are white.]]

!!Konata Izumi [[spoiler:Star Blue]]

* [[spoiler:BladeOnAStick: Her signature weapon in Star form is a naginata with in IncrediblyLamePun for a name... see below.]]
* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: When she was captured by the Sixth and transformed into a Spawn.]]
* GamerChick
* [[spoiler:[[NamedWeapons Named Weapon]]: '''[[PunnyName Ko]]'''[[PunnyName nagi]]'''[[PunnyName nata]]'''.]]
* OtakuSurrogate: Of course. [[spoiler:Finding out that magical girls are real leads to some extreme fangirl moments.]]
* [[spoiler:WrongGenreSavvy: Her savviness gets her kidnapped by the Spawn of the Sixth.]]

!!Miyuki Takara [[spoiler:Star Pink]]

* BetaCouple: With Tsukasa.
* [[spoiler:DropTheHammer: One of the forms of her signature Star weapon, Heshioru.]]
* [[spoiler:DistressedDamsel: For most of the story, she is trapped inside the Second's Lair.]]
* {{Meganekko}}: [[spoiler:Her glasses are hiding a secret...]]
* [[spoiler:[[NamedWeapons Named Weapon]]: Heshioru, a magic book that links to her glasses and transforms into a hammer.]]
* TheSmartGuy: [[spoiler:This figures into her Star powers: her book and glasses can gather and display the information that she collects from multiple sources.]]
* [[spoiler:WhiteMage: What she crafted her Star outfit after... though Konata points out that her actual powers are more in line with a RedMage.]]

!![[spoiler: Homura Akemi]]
[[spoiler: The 2007 version of Homura. Kagami visits her after the future Homura dies, in order to cure her illness.]]

* [[spoiler: IllGirl: As the original Homura was prior to contracting and becoming a Puella Magi. Kagami fixes this.]]
* [[spoiler: ReplacementGoldfish: Kagami consciously avoids using this version of Homura as this.]]
* [[spoiler: ShrinkingViolet: In contrast to her future self's aloof behaviour.]]
* [[spoiler: WalkingSpoiler: Shows up only at the epilogue, after the other Homura dies.]]

The Puellae Magi, [[MagicalGirl Magical Girls]] from a parallel universe [[spoiler:set two years after Madoka's [[AbstractApotheosis ascension]]. Most of them were killed during the war with Vittoria.]] Kyubey is listed here too, of course.

!!Homura Akemi [[spoiler:Star Violet]]

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: At first.
* BrokenBird: The events of her past haven't been kind at all to her emotional state. [[spoiler:Being raped by the Second has only made things worse, though Kagami is helping her recover.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: '''''Good Lord.'''''

* [[spoiler: GoOutWithASmile: Following the below trope.]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: Refuses to let Kagami contract to spare her from a FateWorseThanDeath, knowing full well she'll die otherwise from Soul Gem corruption.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler: Her motivation for rejecting Kagami, and then for stopping Kagami from making a wish to save her, knowing full well she will die without it.]]
* [[spoiler:MyGreatestFailure: She blames herself for failing to MercyKill her universe's Kagami when she had the chance, and thinks of all the death and suffering that followed as her fault. [[BreakThemByTalking The Second]] takes full advantage of this.]]
* [[spoiler:SecondLove: With Kagami.]]
* [[spoiler:SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Her mission this time is to prevent the catastrophe that befell her world from ever happening again.]]
* [[spoiler: StarCrossedLovers: With Madoka first, and then Kagami after she herself dies.]]

* HowDareYouDieOnMe: [[spoiler: Says this in his own way when Homura is about to die from Soul Gem corruption, pressuring her to let Kagami contract.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: As expected from Kyubey, of all people. [[spoiler: However, it's clear he 'cares', in some form, for Homura, and tries to convince her to let Kagami wish her back to life to no avail.]]

* SupportingLeader: She brought all of the Puellae Magi together, uniting them for a greater cause.

* VisionsOfAnotherSelf: [[spoiler:In her dreams, she saw her [[Manga/PuellaMagiOrikoMagica villainous self]] in the other timelines that Homura went through.]]

!![[spoiler:Kagami Hiiragi]]

* [[spoiler:DespairEventHorizon]]
* [[spoiler:BreakTheCutie]]
* [[spoiler:PosthumousCharacter]]
* [[spoiler:SanitySlippage]]

!![[spoiler:Tsukasa Hiiragi]]

* [[spoiler:DiesWideOpen]]
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* [[spoiler:PosthumousCharacter]]

* BigSisterMentor
* [[spoiler:DeathOfPersonality]]
* [[spoiler:FateWorseThanDeath: See below.]]
* [[spoiler:MindRape: Had her memories eaten by a Demon until she was reduced to an infantile state.]]

* BigEater
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:After being forced to MercyKill Mami.]]
* [[spoiler:DiedHappilyEverAfter: Was reunited with Mami after Madoka took her to her heaven.]]
* [[spoiler:MercyKill: Was forced to do this to Mami.]]

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:She isn't exactly thrilled with taking care of her seven-year-old clone, [[Manga/PuellaMagiKazumiMagica Kanna]], but they seem to enjoy each other's company by the end.]]
* HealingFactor: As in her canon series, her wish gave her regenerative abilities.

* GadgeteerGenius: Able to assemble a deep space probe from scratch using only the technology she can salvage after the apocalypse.
* [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Her Kind]]: The last of the Pleiades. [[spoiler:''Pioneer'' establishes that she becomes Earth's last Puella Magi after Oriko and Yuma die.]]
* TheSmartGuy: She was this to the Pleiades Saints.

* HealingHands
* ThirdPersonPerson

* [[spoiler:DiesWideOpen: After her Soul Gem is drained by Vittoria.]]
* [[spoiler:KilledMidSentence]]

The Demon of Mourning, responsible for destroying the Earth and killing billions in Homura's universe. Every Puella Magi on the planet teamed up to fight her, engaging her in a war that lasted a year and a half before she finally fell. However, as she died, she spread her essence throughout TheMultiverse, spawning Demons in universes without magical girls to protect them. She is the one that birthed the Nine. [[spoiler:Vittoria is actually the Demon form of the Madokaverse's Kagami Hiiragi, born from her despair at seeing Tsukasa die in front of her eyes.]]

* BiggerBad: In her death, she created the Nine, the main antagonists.
* EldritchAbomination

* [[spoiler:WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]]

!!The First [[spoiler:(Serafino)]]

[[spoiler:The Demon of Limbo.]] An enormous worm that resembles a bullet train with three sets of bloodstained teeth.

* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily
* TooManyMouths
* WarmupBoss: Homura very easily takes it down in the second chapter.

!!The Second [[spoiler:(Desideria)]]

[[spoiler:The Demon of Lust.]] A shapeshifter with an affinity for mirrors. [[spoiler:She traps Miyuki inside the lens of her glasses and impersonates her for most of the story, seducing Tsukasa in order to feed on her Heart. Her true form is a catlike ''thing'' made of tongues and eyes. After accidentally reading the mind of the Ninth and discovering his true murderous intentions, she set in place an elaborate plan to replace herself with one of her Spawn and fake her own death... only to return and kill the Ninth when everyone least expected it.]]

* [[spoiler:BedTrick: To Tsukasa, multiple times.]]
* BreakThemByTalking
* [[spoiler:CloningGambit: She replaced herself with one of her own Spawn and faked her death.]]
* TheCorrupter
* TheDragon
* [[spoiler:DragonAscendant]]
* [[spoiler:[[KillAndReplace Imprison And Replace: To Miyuki.]]]]
* [[spoiler:MindRape: A particularly vicious example, as she augments it with ''physical'' rape. By the end of it, Homura is pretty much catatonic.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifter

!!The Third [[spoiler:(Ciacco)]]

[[spoiler:The Demon of Gluttony.]] A giant, emaciated dog with three eyes and a stomach filled with maggots.

* HellHound
* HorrorHunger

!!The Fourth [[spoiler:(Gaspare)]]

[[spoiler:The Demon of Greed.]] A knight composed of solid lead, with veins of gold and silver. It carries a golden lance and a silver shield.

* TheJuggernaut
* [[MadeOfIron Made Of Lead]]

!!The Fifth [[spoiler:(Geppetto)]]

[[spoiler:The Demon of Wrath.]] It resembles a wooden puppet's hand, with six fingers and animated carved faces on each fingertip.

* PeoplePuppets

!!The Sixth [[spoiler:(Jovanni)]]

[[spoiler:The Demon of Heresy. It takes the form of a demonic, twisted cathedral composed of volcanic rock, with stained glass windows for eyes.]]

* [[spoiler:GeniusLoci]]

!!The Seventh [[spoiler:(Duilio)]]

[[spoiler:The Demon of Violence.]] A Demon with the appearance of a three-story tall skinned minotaur, with a bull's skull for a head and a chest composed of the flayed corpses of its victims woven together.

* AxCrazy
* BadassBoast
-->''If I must join them, I will at least perish in a way that befits me. Let the Puella Magi come with her armory. Let the focal point strike me with her sword. Before I die, I'll crush their skulls between my teeth, drink their marrow, crack open their ribs…''
* BloodKnight
* BodyOfBodies
* EvilIsVisceral
* [[spoiler:MindRape: When Tsukasa tries to fight off the Seventh's DemonicPossession, it resorts to projecting the painful memories of its victims into her head.]]

!!The Eighth [[spoiler:(Giustino)]]

[[spoiler:The Demon of Fraud.]]. It takes the form of a snake head statue that does not move. Its Spawn [[spoiler:take the form of the friends and loved ones of their foes, and taunt them to drive them into despair.]]

* [[spoiler:ReptilesAreAbhorrent]]
* [[spoiler:WhenTreesAttack]]

!!The Ninth [[spoiler:(Lucio)]]

[[spoiler:The Demon of Treachery.]] He leads the Nine, [[spoiler:though he plots to betray them, as it is part of his nature. He takes the form of a winged, three-faced figure carved from ice.]]

* [[spoiler:AlienGeometries: His wings are made of crystals with impossible shapes.]]
* [[spoiler:[[AnIcePerson An Ice Demon]]]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Until Desideria usurps him.]]
* [[spoiler:ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He kills the Eighth essentially for no reason... because it's his nature.]]
* [[spoiler:EvilIsDeathlyCold: As befits a Demon made of ice.]]
* [[spoiler: OmnicidalManiac:]]
-->[[spoiler:Eventually, the Second, Mother, and everyone and everything else would all realize how alone they truly were. In that moment, the Ninth would kill them all, without remorse, without pause, without even knowing why. For that was the Ninth, [[MadeOfEvil that was its nature]].]]
* [[spoiler:TeamKiller: Perfectly willing to kill the others of the Nine, though the only one he actually kills off is the Eighth.]]

* GenreSavvy: She suspects that something's up with Homura long before she learns the truth about her being a Puella Magi, and knows that she and Kagami have feelings for each other before either of them admit it. [[spoiler:Sometimes overlaps with WrongGenreSavvy, see below.]]

* [[spoiler:WhiteMage: What she crafted her Star outfit after... though Konata [[GenreSavvy points out]] that her actual powers are more in line with a RedMage.]]