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Homura Akemi

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese), Cristina Valenzuela (English), Ariadna Jiménez (Spanish)

"Memories are so annoying. As soon as I get one back, others come flooding again, one after the other."

At the end of the anime, Homura was last seen fighting off wraiths with her new powers. At the beginning of the movie, she's returned to her glasses-wearing persona and is once again a transfer student at Madoka's school. She joins the other magical girls but soon begins questioning the nature of the world she is in, returning to her stoic badass persona and serving as the main character of the movie.

Note: As you can see, there are numerous massive spoilers related to Homura, so watch your step if you haven't seen the movie yet.

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In General

• Amnesiac Dissonance: Due to the witch barrier altering everyone's memories, Homura couldn't remember that she had already been transformed into a witch because of Kyubey getting in the way of Madoka retrieving her soul.
• Animal Motifs: Lizards are repeatedly used to represent Homura throughout the movie. She even wears an lizard-shaped earring at the end.
• Ascended Extra: She was already an extremely important character, but the movie promotes her from Deuteragonist to protagonist.
• Badass in Distress: As revealed near the end of the movie at some point the Incubators captured Homura's dying body and placed her soul gem inside an isolation field in order to create a type of witch barrier. The entire rest of the movie is Madoka and the other Magical Girls attempting to rescue Homura from said field and destroy the Incubators plans.
• Being Good Sucks: She's convinced that you can't be happy by sacrificing yourself for others' sake and putting others before yourself is foolishness. This is the reason she believes Madoka isn't happy as a god.
• Bespectacled Cutie: At the start of the movie, she has reverted to her original timid yet cute bespectacled girl self, but she ditches her glasses and cute behavior once she starts to notice something's wrong in Mitakihara City.
• Broken Bird: She isn't dealing with the trauma from all the time loops she experienced that well.
• Broken Tears: During an emotional breakdown, Homura cries her heart out as she tells Madoka about a "dream" where she found herself in a world where Madoka didn't exist and no one but her remembered her, admitting she felt sad and lonely without Madoka.
• Byronic Heroine: The movie centers around Homura and her conflicting emotions, mainly her angst and pain, while also emphasising her pragmatism and refusal to conform.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • Kind of. At several points in the movie, Homura claims that no-one can understand her, or that she doesn't expect anyone to understand her.
  • "Whatever sins I must bear" is used a few times and in the anime.
• Combat Pragmatist: She tries to catch Mami off guard by faking a suicide. Too bad her opponent one-ups her by faking her entire presence in the fight by creating a decoy to fight for her.
• Dainty Little Ballet Dancers: She seems to have an overarching motif of ballet through the movie. It's even part of her Transformation Sequence.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: All the typical Action Dark Magical Girl traits that made her an effective and popular character in the original series are pulled apart and often shown to be very bad things. Her devotion to Madoka's safety makes her incredibly selfish. Her insistence on always working alone results in her trusting no one, even attempting to murder others over mere suspicions. Her determination to fulfill her goal means she's at a complete loss when she can no longer fulfill it.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Homura's reason to become a magical girl was to always protect Madoka, which becomes null and void when Madoka becomes a God and stops existing in the material world, and thus Homura is left struggling to find any other purpose in life.
• The Glasses Come Off: She takes off her glasses when she starts getting serious.
• The Heroine: The main character of the movie, unlike in the series where Madoka was the main character and shared the title of The Heroine with Homura.
• I Have This Friend: A variation. In the flower field, Homura tells Madoka about having been in a world where Madoka never existed, but she calls it a "dream" she had.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: The reveal of the Fake Mitakihara as an idealized world created by Homura's subconscious gives a bevy of insight into her psyche, notably that she would be truly happy in a world where she's friends with all four of the other girls.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: After an Amnesiac God Madoka tells Homura that she would never want to sacrifice herself the way she did in the anime, Homura begins to honestly believe that she should have stopped Madoka's Abstract Apotheosis.
• Ineffectual Loner: Homura's insistence on working alone and unwillingness to accept help from the other girls is portrayed as a bad thing. Kyoko was willing to help Homura, but she brushes her off. Mami is willing to talk rather than fight, but Homura doesn't trust Mami to handle the truth. Sayaka actually rescues Homura from Mami and tries to tell her what's really going on, but Homura isn't willing to listen. Finally when Kyubey asks Homura to call for Madoka's help, Homura refuses and becomes a witch. Even her witch has the nature of self-sufficiency.
• I Work Alone: After she begins to discover the truth of the world with Kyoko, Homura tells Kyoko to let her handle everything by herself.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: With her increased focus during the movie, Homura shows a surprisingly caring side when dealing with the members of the team who aren't Madoka, even if she is short with them at times. She muses about how it broke her heart whenever she had to reveal the Awful Truth to Mami, and even after their big fight she can't even bear to watch the impact of a non-fatal shot to Mami's leg. Her idealized world is one where all five of them are friends having fun together, and when she obtains demonic powers she does her level best to give happy lives to all of the girls, not just Madoka.
• Mysterious Purple: Her Color Motif is purple and she's the most morally dubious of the "Holy Quintet" as well. Her ascension to "Devil Homura" comes after her Soul Gem shatters into something far more frightful, causing the love-tainted contents of her soul to blanket the entire universe in a curtain of purple magic.
• New Transfer Student: She first appears in the movie similarly to her original timeline from the series' climax. She switches roles with Madoka at the movie's end, instead showing a powerless Madoka the way around the school.
• Pet the Dog: During her epic battle with Mami, she gets an opportunity to shoot her soul gem and kill her instantly, but she decides to shoot her in the leg instead. Good thing, too, because the vulnerable Mami was an elaborate copy made of ribbons, and the real Mami probably would have killed Homura if she had tried to murder the fake.
• Pimped-Out Dress: She dresses up in black Elegant Gothic Lolita-style robes when turning into her witch form, Homulilly.
• Pragmatic Hero: She's still willing to resort to underhanded techniques and (regretfully) injure others to find out the mystery of the Mitakihara witch barrier.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: Realizing that a great evil must be stopped from manipulating Madoka's ideal universe for its own gain, she becomes an even more powerful antagonist willing to anything to not let this happen ever again.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: When Homura confronts Bebe, she believes that Bebe knows what really is going on because she thinks Bebe is the witch that created the false Mitakihara. Shortly thereafter, Homura makes the same assumption about Sayaka when the latter reveals she's the same one from the old universe who transformed into Oktavia von Seckendorff. In fact, Bebe and Sayaka do know what's going on, but they're not the one who created the barrier; Homura's witch form is.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Deconstructed. She admits to Madoka that since she was the only one who remembered the events from the previous time loops, she began wondering if she hadn't just made it up in her own head.
• Sanity Slippage: The series was a long, slow tumble for her, but Homura manages to keep her mind together right up until her conversation with Madoka in the field of flowers. We get a closeup of Homura's face after Madoka hints she's not happy as a goddess, and the look in her eyes◊ makes it pretty clear that something finally snapped. From there, Homura's descent into madness is less 'tumble' than it is 'vertical drop', and it all culminates with her transformation into a demon.
• Stepford Smiler: Despite her smiles and newfound kindness, she had not made peace with herself after all the trauma she went through.
• Tears of Remorse: Homura break down in tears when Madoka tells her she wouldn't bear to disappear and say goodbye to everyone she loves, which leads to her thinking she made a big mistake when she didn't stop Madoka from making the wish that turned her into the Law of Cycles and erased her from the material world.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Homura constantly berates the witch that created the fake Mitakihara city and she's completely focused on destroying her because it makes fun of Madoka's sacrifice. It's played for irony when it's revealed the witch is no other than Homura herself.
• Time Master: Homura has regained her Time Stands Still powers. Mostly because she's living a fake reality created by herself.
• To Unmasque the World: Homura resolves to find who trapped everyone in an imitation of real life with Fake Memories. She even insists on doing it by herself, because she was concerned that others would be Killed to Uphold the Masquerade. She later finds out she created this fake reality within her own witch barrier, and she isn't happy about it.
• Too Good to Be True: It's implied that Homura begins questioning the fake world because everything is too perfect for her to not sense something is wrong. Makes sense since this reality is a Lotus-Eater Machine made by Homura's own subconscious.
• Tragic Heroine: The film is essentially about how much of a self-loathing, mentally and emotionally unstable mess Homura is, and how her undying love for Madoka causes her to become the villain.
• Unreliable Expositor: A rather subtle example. Homura tells Madoka that in the "dream" she had, Madoka had to go somewhere far away, that they could never meet each other again. This is actually wrong: Madoka explicitly says at the end of the anime that she is everywhere. (Well, until Kyubey put up his isolation field...) She also stated that they will meet again someday. (When Homura's soul gem will completely corrupt, making Madokami come for her) But Homura being the only person in the universe remembering Madoka made her start to even doubt that her memories of Madoka were real, and therefore that she would see her again.
• Wistful Amnesia: She begins questioning her world when she starts to notice there's something seriously wrong with everyone's memories and the reality they're living in.
• Yandere: She becomes this towards the end of Rebellion when she forcefully splits Madoka's soul from the Law of Cycles in a warped attempt to keep her from suffering. She's a more sympathetic case than most in that she doesn't actually harm anyone other than Kyubey and the other Incubators, but Sayaka confirms before losing her memories of the previous timeline that she absolutely does not agree with Homura's solution to the Magical Girl problem, and Madoka herself is constantly on the verge of remembering her true nature with Homura having to be vigilant in ensuring she doesn't regain her godhood.

Mid-Story Tropes (SPOILERS)

Homulilly

"Madoka, I just want to say thank you for coming here to this god-awful place. I can't even say goodbye to you in the end. I'm sorry."

^{Click here to see her premature form} 
"You want me to betray [Madoka], but I'd rather turn into a Witch before I do, and I will never let you Incubators touch her again!"

Homura's witch form and the one responsible for creating a barrier where all of Homura's acquaintances have been trapped in.

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• And I Must Scream: Homulilly is essentially tortured by her Ironic Hell, is aware of her surroundings, and powerless to fight back the entirety of its psychological horror. Sayaka implies this was true of all witches.
• Ascended Extra: Homulilly originally just appeared as Homura's witch form in the Non-Standard Game Over in Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable. She makes her official debut in the movie.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Homulilly is nearly as big, if not bigger, than Walpurgisnacht from the original series.
• The Bait: Kyubey sealed Homura's Soul Gem inside a cube that prevents the Law of Cycles to make it disappear before Homura becomes a witch. As a result, Homura unconsciously creates a city-sized witch barrier and Madoka has to materialize inside it to have a chance to save Homura, which is exactly what Kyubey wanted as he seeks to control the Law of Cycles through Madoka.
• Big "SHUT UP!": She pulls a very scary one on Kyubey when the latter points out that she'll be separated from Madoka forever if she transforms into a full witch inside her Soul Gem. The effect is lost on the critter, but not on the audience.
• Death Is the Only Option: After finding out Kyubey's plan to capture Madoka and use her to bring back the old system, Homura decides to become a witch and then starts moving towards a guillotine to make sure she dies.
• Dem Bones: She looks like a giant skeleton with flowers growing from her broken skull and wearing a dress similar to Homura's magical girl outfit.
• Fairytale Motifs: Homulilly is "The Nutcracker Witch", with a series of old-timey nutcracker-esque familiar soldiers.
• Flower Motifs: Flowers are used in Homulilly's design. First, the red spider lilies that appear from her head are a common symbol for death in Japanese media and are said to appear near graveyards. When they switch to Cherry Blossoms after Madoka manages to reach her, the dual symbolism of love and death is what's important - love for Homura's and Madoka's friendship and death because they're about to destroy Kyuubey's seal and with it Homulilly's witch barrier, something that should effectively kill Homura and allow her to be taken to heaven with Madoka. They are also a symbol of separation, said to bloom when you see someone that you will never meet again, referencing Madoka departing from the mortal plane and saying goodbye to Homura when she became a goddess to save all the universe's magical girls.
• Humanoid Abomination: Homulilly looks the most human and traditional-witch-like out of any witch in the series until her face slides off, revealing her as a headless, skeletal monstrosity reminiscent of a Calaca doll with a field of red spider lilies growing out of where the top of her skull was (the space in-between is the flowers and her lower jaw is completely hollow). She very quickly goes from the least monstrous to the most monstrous witch we've ever seen.
• Interrupted Suicide: Homura decides to kill herself to stop Kyubey's plan to capture Madoka and use her to bring back the old system. But Madoka and the other Magical Girls end up saving Homura.
• Loophole Abuse: Witches are not supposed to be able to exist in Madoka's rewritten universe, because she wished to erase all witches before they were born. Homulilly can exist inside Homura's Soul Gem, which counts as not being born yet.
• Master of Threads: Her dress has a waist ribbon that acts similarly to an extra set of limbs and destroys the city around her.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Homulilly constantly rains teeth out of the flower field that occupied where her upper-head is supposed to be, almost as if crying. Worse yet, the teeth are familiars.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When Kyubey reveals he started an experiment to lure Madoka into Homura's witch barrier, Homura is very furious and horrified at realizing Kyubey got the idea from the information she gave him about the previous timelines where Madoka and witches existed.
• My Greatest Failure: The Black Bug Room Homulilly is trapped in has her reliving the absolute worst moment of her life: the time she had to Mercy Kill Madoka with her own hands.
• Our Monsters Are Weird: Homulilly initially looks like a giant humanoid figure, but then she loses most of her head and it just gets stranger from there. First, there's the exposed portions of the skeleton and the ribbons that turn into hands. Then there's the tears of teeth that can move around and shoot nuts, the clock hands emerge from the remains of her head, the flying shields with fanged mouths, the weird-looking birds, the Homura-soldiers that come in various sizes, and the Clara Dolls.
• Resurrection/Death Loop: Homulilly's profile states that even if she makes it to the funeral procession to be beheaded, she'll simply rise again and repeat the process over and over because death isn't enough to absolve her sins.
• Robe and Wizard Hat: Homulilly initially has a witch hat, but it quickly falls off. It's ironic because the hat actually made her resemble a typical depiction of a witch.
• Suicide by Cop: She willingly becomes a witch so the incubators would not succeed in their plan of capturing Madoka, and fully expects Mami and Kyoko to finish her off.
• Teeth Flying: A variation. After the top half of her head falls off, Homulilly's teeth are seen falling from her mouth as if they were tears.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Homura is, in fact, unknowingly Homulilly disguised as a human even to herself. In the middle of the movie, Homura realizes the witch she's been hunting is herself.
• Tragic Monster: Homulilly is Homura who now believes in her heart that Madoka did not really want to become a goddess and condemned herself to an eternity of loneliness for the sake of all magical girls. In recompense, Homulilly feels she deserves nothing less than an eternity of punishment for not keeping her promise to save her very best friend.
  Sayaka: She might look scary, but she's the one suffering the most.
• Unwanted Rescue: While retaining enough control, Homura wanted the other magical girls to kill her. Instead, they took part in saving her, which led to her corrupted self performing a different Unwanted Rescue on Ultimate Madoka.

Ending Tropes (MASSIVE UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Devil Homura

"Madoka is as sacred as a god, and I pulled her from Heaven. So if you want to know what I've become, I suppose if anything, you could call me a demon now."

Homura's dark goddess/demon form, born from her love for Madoka.

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• Above Good and Evil: Ultimately, rather than good or evil, Homura just does whatever she believes will keep Madoka safe and happy because she loves her. Since she thinks Madoka isn't happy as a goddess, Homura decides to hijack the Law of Cycles and create an altered reality where everyone has a perfect life in the material world. She just calls herself a devil because she's going against the natural order created by Madoka after becoming a goddess.
• Aesop Amnesia: Throughout the entire movie, the other magical girls try to convince Homura that she shouldn't make herself miserable by burdening herself with solving problems alone. If Homura would've had things her way, she would have ended up as a witch, forever separated from Madoka and salvation. Thanks to the other girls refusing to give up on her, Homura was freed, reunited with Madoka, and the Incubators' plot was foiled. Despite all of this, in the very end, Homura still insists on "fixing" everything all by herself and isolates herself from everyone in her new world.
• Age-Inappropriate Dress: In her demon form, Homura — who is physically 14 years old — wears a revealing Sexy Backless Outfit with a Showgirl Skirt, cut-out sides, Vapor Wear, and a Navel-Deep Neckline.
• Always Save the Girl: Protecting Madoka is still Homura's top priority. And to "save" Madoka, Homura becomes the devil to her god and turns the world into a Gilded Cage to keep Madoka as her prisoner.
• Ambiguously Evil: Exactly how evil Homura is depends on the viewer's value system: on one hand, her world is portrayed as better since Madoka, Sayaka, and Nagisa are alive. On the other hand, she created said world without anyone's consent. There's also the part where she tells Sayaka that she will destroy the universe once all the wraiths are dealt with, but later on she contradicts this by telling Madoka that she just wants a world where Madoka is happy. It can be said that she has resigned to be a Card-Carrying Villain and simply acts the part, because the only people who are explicitly suffering in her new world are Kyubey (who's pretty hard to pity) and Homura herself.
• Ambiguously Gay: The movie is filled with tons of questionable scenes between her and Madoka, such as the Love Confession Homura makes as her Motive Rant. Word of Saint Paul states they believe Homura's obsession is romantic, and Word of God has directly compared Homura's relationship with Madoka to Anakin's and Padme's. They just stop at outright saying it.
• And Then What?: Homura has no idea what she'll do with the new world she created, all but admitting her actions were for Madoka's sake with no idea of what would come next, even offhandedly considering destroying the world simply because she's become evil.
• Anti-Villain: By the end of the movie, she has become a God of Evil, but at least creates a world where everyone is happy, even if she has to kidnap Madoka and shove her in a Gilded Cage to do it.
• Being Evil Sucks: She completely hates herself in general, but her self-loathing only worsened when she imprisoned Madoka in her perfect world, and believes that she will no longer have her trust once she inevitably breaks out of it. Homura may rule over her own world, but it's still a Self-Inflicted Hell for her because she won't ever forgive herself for the betrayal that she had to commit. In accordance with her thoughts, even her own familiars throw tomatoes at her. And said familiars have names that are a manifestation of Homura's opinion of herself: Arrogance, Sadsack, Liar, Coldheartedness, Selfishness, Slanderer, Dunce, Jealousy, Lazybones, Vanity, Cowardice, Fool, Bias, and Obstinance. Supposedly, there's also one by the name of Love, which is nowhere to be seen.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: An explanation for her actions at the end of the movie. The psychological terror she endured over the course of the series has finally reached its tipping point, and by the end of the picture she more or less decides that it's better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven. Becoming a witch was pretty much the final straw for the poor girl, we only see a little of what it's like but it wasn't pretty. Word of Saint Paul implies that this may be partially involved, more specifically what the Incubators did to her in the film.
• Big Bad: Takes over this role from Kyubey. How much of it is genuine and in which capacity would she return for the sequel is anyone's guess.
• Bishoujo Line: As Homulilly, she looks like a giant skeleton with the top half of her skull cut off. After becoming an evil goddess, she looks like an angel with black wings.
• Broken Smile: During The Stinger, she smiles as she's implied to throw herself from a cliff.
• Card-Carrying Villain: She claims that she is evil and a demon as she first ascends and seizes Madoka and Kyubey, then spends much of the remaining screentime in her usurped universe, bullying Kyouko and Mami from the shadows, threatening Sayaka and Madoka when they show they still remember the old way and desire to go back to it, and cheerily abusing Kyubey to his absolute limits of endurance.
• Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive: She's seen clasping her hands as she observes the amnesiac Madoka entering the classroom of her fake world.
• Control Freak: Of a sort. Homura wants Madoka to have a normal life, and thus doesn't intend to control her life and actions right down to the smallest detail. If Madoka's about to regain her memories of her godhood, however, Homura will be right there with a jolt of Laser-Guided Amnesia.
• Dark Magical Girl: Homura takes this trope to its logical extreme by becoming a dark magical girl devil to oppose Madoka's magical girl goddess.
• Dark Messiah: While Madoka makes the world better out of selfless love for everyone, Homura makes the world better so that it can be a Gilded Cage for Madoka. Familiarity with Buddhism would explain why this might be a very bad thing.
• Death Seeker: There's a moment where Homura's familiars jump off a ledge. Shoes are scattered around the ledge, and the familiars are not wearing shoes themselves. In Japan, it's common for people to remove their shoes before committing suicide. Homura might be acting like a devil, but if her familiars are any indication, she secretly wants to die.
• Demiurge Archetype: While she is primarily a Satanic Archetype, she also possesses similarities to the Demiurge, in that she overthrows and replaces Ultimate Madoka, the God archetype, and recreates the universe, becoming a false god.
• Demon of Human Origin: She becomes the Devil itself and usurps Madoka's position as the ruler of the universe.
• The Devil Is a Loser: Despite having ascended to the nearest equivalent of the Devil in this universe, Homura truly feels like garbage. Her familiars express the feeling by pelting her with magically conjured tomatoes. All her talk about being a "devil" is all meant to showcase how pathetic and self-loathing she is, especially when it's seen that her familiars are being unconsciously ordered to punish and revile her for her crimes.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: She usurps the goddess of hope. As a mere afterthought, enslaves and mind rapes the Incubators.
• Dissonant Serenity: She's noticeably more nonchalant in her demeanour than usual, despite having usurped a goddess and brainwashed everyone she knows.
• Divinely Appearing Demons: Even though she calls herself a devil, she looks like an angel with black wings.
• The Dreaded: Even when people in her fake world are incapable of knowing what she is, they still feel uneasy by her presence.
• Evil Costume Switch: After ascending to an evil goddess/devil, she abandons her Sailor Fuku-like Magical Girl uniform for a black dress that looks like it's made of feathers.
• Evil Counterpart: By the end of the movie, Homura becomes the universe's equivalent to the devil, as she directly opposes Ultimate Madoka and steals her powers.
• Evil Is Petty: She will gladly do anything just to make Madoka hers, and if that means endangering the universe, so be it.
• Evil Virtues: Love. Homura loves Madoka so much that she will pull her down from heaven, seal away her powers, prevent her from doing her duty as the savior of magical girls and rewrite the universe with Homura herself in charge, all so Madoka can live a normal, happy life, no longer burdened by the loneliness of being a goddess and the despair of erasing herself from the memories of everyone she's ever known and loved. The problem is she completely disregards what Madoka really wants.
• Evil Wears Black: She's the Devil equivalent in this universe and wears a black dress.
• Exhausted Eye Bags: Her eye bags make her look like she hasn't slept properly in weeks.
• Eye Color Change: She gains bright purple eyes as Devil Homura, similar to how Ultimate Madoka has Supernatural Gold Eyes.
• Fallen Hero: By the end of the movie, she has become one due to usurping Ultimate Madoka and altering the Law of Cycles, turning herself into the universe's equivalent of Lucifer.
• Fatal Flaw: Homura is still a selfish pessimist who is thoroughly convinced that Being Good Sucks. Her stalwart loyalty to Madoka keeps her going, but she just never really understood the benefits of her Heroic Sacrifice. It reaches its logical conclusion the very second she starts to (mistakenly) think that Madoka didn't want to make that sacrifice, after which everything goes wrong and Homura seizes the first attempt to undo it that she gets, cementing herself as Madoka's opposite in the process.
• For the Evulz: She gives no explicit reason to wipe out the universe when Sayaka asks if she would eventually resort to such a thing; presumably it's to spite Sayaka.
• Freudian Excuse: Going through nearly a hundred timelines where she failed to save her friend from dying/destroying the world already did a number on her sanity. The fact that all of that was for naught was what pushed her off the deep end.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Homura sure went a long way, from a bedridden ill girl, to Cute Clumsy Girl, to a proper Magical Girl Warrior, to The Stoic Determinator Time Master, to The Chosen One of a Physical God, to Satanic Archetype Dark Messiah.
• God of Evil: Played With. She traps Madoka and the other magical girls in her own world. While her methods may look evil, she's doing it so everyone else can have happy lives.
• Good Running Evil: Played with. She's now in control of the Blue-and-Orange Morality critters that run the Grief-harvesting scheme to keep the universe going, making it impossible for them to hurt Madoka anymore. However, now it's up to Homura to either shoulder the moral burden of this scheme for as long as she wants the universe to keep going, or try to come up with a new solution that might be even more immoral.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: She has skeletal wings with sparse black feathers hanging off of them as part of her ascension. These wings are similar to Polish Hussars.
• Goth Girls Know Magic: She has gained a very gothic appearance and has become much more powerful magically with her ascension to an evil goddess.
• Hypocrite: Homura wanted to avoid the possibility of the incubators from controlling Madoka, but when the opportunity presented itself, her method of stripping Madoka of her memories and refusal to allow an escape from a Gilded Cage is ultimately no different. Though, to soften the blow, she does seem aware of it considering her guilt over the situation, and her motives are much more altrustic than what the Incubators had in mind.
• I Did What I Had to Do: At the end of the movie she seems to feel this way about creating a Gilded Cage for Madoka's happiness, as well as erasing everyone else's memories of her having usurped Ultimate Madoka.
• Impossibly-Low Neckline: She wears a strapless, backless skin tight dress that seems like it has to be glued to her chest for it to not fall off.
• It's All About Me: While far from unwarranted, Homura's actions at the end of the movie are driven by her desire to do what she thinks is right, everyone else be damned (even Madoka). This is undermined a bit by the fact that she shows more compassion than before, and that her actions are ultimately well-intentioned.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Deconstructed. A conversation with Madoka causes Homura to mistakenly believe that Madoka isn't happy being God. As a result, at the end of the movie, Homura becomes the devil to create a world where Madoka can be happy...or at least, what she believes can make Madoka happy.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: She fully cements her status as a God of Evil when she erases Sayaka's memories. Sayaka tells her she'd always remember Homura as a demon for that.
• Knight Templar: Homura won't allow Madoka to suffer for someone else's sake - because she believed that Madoka wasn't happy as a immaterial concept. So, she rewrites reality and brainwashes all magical girls, including Madoka, to create a world where she believes Madoka will finally be happy.
• Lack of Empathy: Like she would care about the potential loss of life if she would actually go forward with her cold threat to destroy the universe.
• Love Makes You Evil: Homura's love for Madoka ultimately drives her to essentially become the Devil, even usurping and reducing Ultimate Madoka back to a normal human life.
• Mad God: Devil Homura doesn't seem to be all there. She can't spend two minutes without breaking out a Nightmare Face and a creepy speech pattern.
• Meaningful Name: Homura's full name can be translated as something along the lines of "the flame of dawn" which is synonymous with "light bringing" and "morning star", the literal translations of Lucifer's name.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her outfit has a crooked-shaped neckline that plunges down to her stomach.
• Necessarily Evil: She meddles with Ultimate Madoka's system, mind-wipes everyone, and effectively turns the entire universe into her witch labyrinth, but by doing so, she permanently nerfs the Incubators and creates a world where everyone is alive and happy. Even though she ostensibly did all this out of obsession with Madoka, she doesn't attempt to brainwash Madoka into being her lover, and she returns her red ribbons, implying that she feels her selfish betrayal makes her undeserving of Madoka's selfless love. She also accepts that Madoka will probably regain her powers someday and become her enemy. This is because Homura doesn't want Madoka's love at all, or perhaps has even given up on earning it - she just wants her to be happy now.
• Next Tier Power-Up: During the movie, she goes straight from a veteran magical girl to a powerful witch, then the universe's God of Evil. After becoming Devil Homura, she breaks her old soul gem in her mouth and gets something entirely new — a "dark orb". Which she then swallows.
• Nominal Villain: Everything Devil Homura does is motivated by her love for Madoka and desire to finally see her living the happy, normal life she deserves. The only reason why she's treated as a villain is because she didn't ask for Madoka's or anyone's consent before changing their memories and trapping them in a Lotus-Eater Machine.
• No Place for Me There: The world she creates at the end is designed to make everyone else happy, with or without their consent, but it leaves Homura herself more miserable than ever.
• Omnicidal Maniac: When Sayaka asks if she will destroy the universe, Homura replies she might do so once the Wraiths are dealt with.
• Outside-Context Problem: Nobody saw her evolution into the Devil coming. Not even the omniscient Madoka, or even Homura herself.
• Passion Is Evil: Love and passion seem to be at the core of what makes Homura who she is by the end of the movie. Notably, it's a selfish, single-minded passion centered on Madoka.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: By the end of the movie, she's essentially become the universe's devil-figure and reduced the entire Incubator race, who have been thoroughly portrayed as scheming dirtbags, into her slaves.
• Poke the Poodle: She's trying to be a Card-Carrying Villain, but the cruelest things she does to the magical girls are breaking Mami's teacup and causing Kyoko to waste a couple of apples. Otherwise, she has made sure they're having happier lives in her Lotus-Eater Machine.
• Power Gives You Wings: She gains black feathery wings with her transformation into a demon.
• The Power of Love: Deconstructed. Her extreme and obsessive love for Madoka allows her to become the devil.
  Homura: It was not even curses that soiled my Soul Gem.
  Kyubey: Then what did?
  Homura: Something that you could never understand, Incubator. It is the pinnacle of all human emotion. More passionate than hope. Far deeper than despair. Love.
• Pragmatic Villainy: She doesn't particularly care for the happiness of other people, but she wants to make Madoka happy and Madoka is happy when other people are. For this reason, everyone is living an ideal life in her Lotus-Eater Machine.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: And she packs as much malicious glee into each syllable as she possibly can.
  Homura: You're going to stay and help...In. Cu. Ba. Tor.
• Readings Are Off the Scale: As a result of every traumatic event she has experienced in the series, combined with Kyubey sticking her Soul Gem in the Isolation Field and blocking it off from the Law of Cycles, her Soul Gem accumulates so much grief that it overloads and triggers her evolution into not a witch, but a demon.
• Reality Warper: She recreates the world and rules as its supreme power now that she has dethroned Ultimate Madoka. She is still suffering throughout because she cannot forgive herself for this act of betrayal. As such, she literally reigns over a Self-Inflicted Hell.
• Red Right Hand: In lieu of the fingernail marking that other Magical Girls have the post-credits scene, it's revealed that even in her 'human' form, she has the image of her old Soul Gem embedded in her hand.
• Refusing Paradise: Homura refuses to let Goddess Madoka collect her soul and take her to the Law of Cycles twice. The first time it's to deny the Incubators access to Madoka, and the second time, it's to arrange Madoka's safety and happiness on her own terms.
• Regretful Traitor: It's suggested her familiars won't let her forget that she completely betrayed Madoka's trust and friendship in the process of creating a perfect world. At the end of the movie, Homura looks genuinely heartbroken when she realizes she can't call herself Madoka's friend anymore and will likely become her biggest enemy in the near future.
• Satanic Archetype: She ends up becoming essentially Lucifer in Magical Girl form and the Evil Counterpart of Madoka, who is a Messianic Archetype. Even so, she still refuses to actively hurt anyone, and in fact works to improve everyone's lives, if only for Madoka's sake. Except Kyubey, who frankly had it coming.
• Satan Is Good: It's pretty clear from the jump that Devil Homura's talk about being 'evil' is pretty much empty rhetoric born from her self-loathing, and her goal is making the world (and consequently Madoka) a genuinely happier place to live. The only morally questionable thing she does is stealing Madoka's powers and locking away everyone's memories to prevent them from escaping her Lotus-Eater Machine.
• Self-Inflicted Hell: Given the Whole-Plot Reference, this the main reason that Homura's victory is bittersweet and she can't be truly happy with the new world she created. Still, she is willing to accept it as long as Madoka is happy.
• Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: Her costume reveals a great deal of skin, in contrast to the magical girls' and Goddess Madoka's modest dresses.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Her black dress is almost entirely backless.
• Shadow Archetype: To Madoka. Whereas Madoka believes she should sacrifice herself for everything, Homura believes that everything should be sacrificed for Madoka.
• The Shadow Knows: In the opening sequence, Homura's shadow shows a silhoutte of her devil form.
• Showgirl Skirt: She wears a black minidress with a long tail made of feathers hanging from the back of her waist.
• Slasher Smile: She flashes one shortly before turning into a devil, and it's really creepy.
• Take Back Your Gift: At the end of the movie, Homura takes off the red hair ribbon Madoka gave her and returns it to Madoka, as the final proof that their friendship is over.
• Totalitarian Utilitarian: Weird example. Homura just wants a world where Madoka is happy, but that pretty much means creating a world where other people are happier too.
• Tragic Villain: Homura does not take her Face–Heel Turn lightly and is shown to be constantly torn by regret for what she had to do.
• The Unfettered: If it's for Madoka's sake, there's no line Homura won't cross. Including stealing Madoka's goddess power, yanking her out of the Law of Cycles, turning her mortal again and wiping her memories so she can live a happy life with her family, and becoming the Devil to rule over a new universe where everything is under her complete control.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: After seeing an endless amount of ways things can go wrong in a multitude of timelines, Homura is going to fix this twisted universe and ensure the other magical girls are safe, happy and not even remembering their original grisly fates, whether they like being trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine or not.
• Vapor Wear: Her backless, strapless dress sports a Navel-Deep Neckline that leaves enough skin exposed for us to know she doesn't wear a bra.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She traps the entire universe inside a Lotus-Eater Machine, seals away Madoka's goddess powers, erases everyone's memories, and enslaves the incubator race. However, she also brought Madoka, Sayaka, and Nagisa back to life, repaired Mami and Kyoko's emotional scars, and is allowing everyone to have happier normal lives in a world without Magical Girls, Witches, Wraiths, or Nightmares. Considering the Crapsack World they were all living in before, it could be argued this change isn't a bad thing at all, but how Homura achieved it is still morally questionable.
• Yandere: She kidnaps and brainwashes most of the cast in an attempt to make a happy and normal life for Madoka. She even traps Madoka in the new world. However, she isn't doing it to be with Madoka forever; she's doing because of her genuine belief that Madoka was unhappy and suffering as a goddess.

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