History Characters / PuellaMagiSuzuneMagica

* ThemeNaming: Like her sister and Tsubaki, she's named after a flower, in her case the jasmine (''mari''ka) flower.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Has red eyes instead of purple eyes, for whatever reason, which doesn't fit in with the rest of the main cast (minus Suzune), who all have eyes the same colour as their given palette.

* HairDecorations: A bell-and-pouch pendant which she wears as her hair tie, that she inherited from Tsubaki. She puts folded pieces of paper with the names of the girls she kills inside the pouch.

* KnightOfCerebus: The story becomes more serious in tone when she steps in. This wavers a little in volume 1, but fully sets in after [[spoiler:she kills Chisato]].

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!Suzune Amano
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The real reason she's [[spoiler:driven to kill other magical girls]]: [[spoiler:Kagari]] altered her memories, erasing certain ones and planting false ones as a way of brainwashing Suzune into doing what she does.

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:"Thank you... my friend."]]

* StepfordSmiler: She only smiles when interacting with other people.

!Arisa Narumi
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: After becoming a magical girl, she changes her hair style. The old one gave her a more demure and shy appearance, while her new one matches her personality change into a brash tomboy.

* JerkAss: Becomes one after becoming a magical girl. After joining the magical girl team, she turns into a {{jerk with a heart of gold}}, but starts turning back into a jerkass after [[spoiler:Chisato]]'s death, and even more after [[spoiler:Haruka]]'s.

!Chisato Shion
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** InTheBack: Stabbed right through the back and her soul gem.

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The leader of Arisa, Chisato, and Matsuri's team. She possesses charm magic as a result of her wish, which was to [[spoiler:erase her older sister from existence]].

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Haruka was always compared to her older sister, Kanata, and found lacking, leading to her developing an inferiority complex.

* StudentCouncilPresident: Mentioned to be part of the student council.

!Matsuri Hinata
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The last member of the magical girl team. Her wish was to cure her blindness, giving her light-elemental magic and the ability to search for others' presences.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Averted. Matsuri doesn't regret her wish at all -- as while her wish was selfish, said wish involved curing her blindness.

!Kagari Hinata
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!Tsubaki Mikoto
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!Kanami
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* RedShirt: Pretty much exists to be killed by Suzune.

!Mika Nishinaka
The leader of a trio of bullies who targeted Arisa prior to her contracting.

* TheBully: The ringleader of the gang that harassed Arisa.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: It's very satisfying to watch Arisa show off her SuperStrength to and chase her and her cronies off.
** DisproportionateRetribution: It becomes uncomfortable when Arisa then goes on to hospitalize them all.

!Kanata Kanade

* CoolBigSis: Despite Haruka's obvious dislike of her, Kanata attempted to be one to her. She would often tell Haruka that she could tell her anything and tried to support her.

!Kyubey

* DecoyProtagonist: Set up as the main villain of the story, and main protagonist in general. It's really [[spoiler:Kagari Hinata]] for the villain status and [[spoiler:Matsuri Hinata]] for the protagonist status.

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Initially appears to be this, though her heart gets significantly less blacker over the course of the series. One of the last things she does is [[spoiler:put Matsuri's welfare over her own and cleanse her fouled soul gem, knowing full well her own was heavily corrupted, but choosing to use it all on Matsuri]], which is practically the opposite of how she used to go about things.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Decides to [[spoiler:kill Suzune]], both to stop her from killing more people, and as an act of revenge for being responsible for [[spoiler:the deaths of Chisato and Haruka]].

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[spoiler:Only she can kill Suzune after she's done torturing her. When Arisa gets close, Kagari doesn't hesitate to reveal herself and kill her first.]]

* HunterOfMonsters: Of {{magical girl}}s as well as witches.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Killing Matsuri]] instead of [[spoiler:simply knocking her unconscious]] would have most likely led to Kagari's success. Made stranger by the fact that Kagari doesn't hesitate to [[spoiler:try and kill her]] later on, and that she [[spoiler:outright murdered Arisa]] previously.

* MasterOfIllusion: Can create illusions by way of manipulating peoples' consciousnesses and altering what they perceive.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Kagari's powers can be described as "plot-convenient"; she always seems to have a power that can move the plot forward, thanks to her versatile mind manipulation abilities. The most obvious uses would be: being able to kill [[spoiler:Arisa]], who was [[spoiler:powered-up to maximum and using her super speed magic]] at the time; being able to make other people see visions which double as flashbacks/exposition; and being able [[spoiler:to turn herself into a witch]]. In a strange way though, it makes sense: [[spoiler:''Suzune Magica'' is essentially the revenge plot she crafted for the purpose of making Suzune suffer, and as its "writer" she always has a way to move it forward]].

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* IJustWantToBeYou: [[spoiler:Her older sister Kanata was always better than her at everything, and Haruka wished for her to disappear so that people would notice her. She came to realize that she wanted to ''be'' her sister, but imitating her didn't make her happy]].
-->'''Haruka:''' [[spoiler:''(with tears spilling from her eyes)'' I'm just not her.]]

* NotMeThisTime: Though the magical girl system is still [[BiggerBad ultimately his fault]], this is the first time in a major storyline that he wasn't the one to manipulate events to start a conflict or sic the villain on the heroes.

* {{Expy}}: A pretty obvious one of Mami. Both girls have yellow as their theme color, act as the TeamMom/CoolBigSis and leader to the rest of the girls, regret their selfish wishes, are well-respected third-year seniors at school, have large chests which their magical girl outfits accentuate, {{nice hat}}s, and tights. It doesn't seem to be intentional on GAN's part, given their saying they wanted to make a "blonde princess"-type character when creating Haruka and mentioning nothing of Mami as an inspiration, but it's still one hell of a coincidence.

* JapanesePronouns: Uses ''watashi''.

* JapanesePronouns: Uses ''atashi'', which is at odds with her tomboyish personality. Prior to becoming a magical girl she used ''watashi'' (and more polite/feminine language in general).

* JapanesePronouns: Uses ''watashi''.

* JapanesePronouns: Uses ''watashi''.

* JapanesePronouns: Uses [[ThirdPersonPerson her first name]] in place of a pronoun.

* JapanesePronouns: Uses ''watashi''.

* JapanesePronouns: Uses ''watashi''.

* JapanesePronouns: Uses ''watashi''.

* JapanesePronouns: Uses ''watashi''.

Matsuri's older twin sister, who bears a grudge against [[spoiler:Suzune]]. She has the power to manipulate peoples' memories and consciousness. Her wish is currently unknown.

* TheHunter: Of {{magical girl}}s as well as witches.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Kagari's powers can be described as "plot-convenient"; she always seems to have a power that can move the plot forward, thanks to her versatile mind manipulation abilities. The most obvious uses would be: being able to kill [[spoiler:Arisa]], who was [[spoiler:powered-up to maximum and using her super speed magic]] at the time; being able to make other people see visions which double as flashbacks/exposition; and being able [[spoiler:to turn herself into a witch]].

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Initially appears to be this, though her heart gets significantly less blacker over the course of the series. Notably, one of the last things she does is [[spoiler:put Matsuri's welfare over her own and cleanse her fouled soul gem, knowing full well her own was heavily corrupted, but choosing to use it all on Matsuri]], which is practically the opposite of how she used to go about things.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Of the ThighHighBoots and WhoWearsShortShorts variety.

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* CharmPerson: She uses her magic to force Suzune to fight her. She retains this ability [[spoiler: even as a witch.]]

* {{Expy}}: A pretty obvious one of Mami. Both girls have yellow as their theme color, act as the TeamMom/CoolBigSis and leader to the rest of the girls, regret their selfish wishes, are well-respected third-year seniors at school, have large chests which their magical girl outfits accentuate, {{nice hat}}s, and tights.
* EyeMotifs: Has an eye symbol on her hat, and the witch that mentally tortures her has an eye motif. [[spoiler:The witch she turns into also has [[http://images.puella-magi.net/8/88/Harukawitch.png?20150126011749 a massive, single eye]] prominently featured.]] As with her charm magic, Haruka's distinct eye motif probably reflects her wish, which was for [[spoiler: her sister to disappear so that people would finally notice her.]]

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* CharmPerson: She uses her magic to force Suzune to fight her.

* EyeMotifs: Has an eye symbol on her hat, and the witch that mentally tortures her has an eye motif.

** DisproportionateRetribution: And then proceeds to put them all in the hospital.

* AbusiveParents: Her father starting becoming [[TheAlcoholic a drunk]] and abusing her mother after publishing companies started rejecting his picture books. When her mother died as a result of the abuse, her father then turned his abuse on Chisato, leading to her making her wish to change him back to how he was before.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Kagari's powers can be described as "plot-convenient"; she always seems to have a power that can move the plot forward. The most obvious uses would be: somehow being able to kill [[spoiler:Arisa]], who was [[spoiler:powered-up to maximum and using her super speed magic]] at the time; being able to make other people see visions which double as flashbacks/exposition; and being able [[spoiler:to turn herself into a witch]]. Somewhat justified in that she can manipulate peoples' consciousnesses, and it would be no stretch to think that she can apply this to herself as well.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Killed off in the very first chapter, right after her introduction.

A schoolgirl who bullied Arisa before she contracted.

* YourHeadASplode: Arisa squeezes Kyubey hard enough to reduce him to a gory mess after he explains the details of the magical girl system.

** DemotedToExtra: Compared to other ''Puella Magi'' spin-offs, he's a rather minor character. All Kyubey does in ''Suzune'' is grant wishes and exposition when needed.

Matsuri's older twin sister, who bears a grudge against [[spoiler:Suzune]]. She has some sort of mind-manipulation magic. Her wish is currently unknown.

* BigBad: Indirectly responsible for the events of the story and directly responsible for [[spoiler:Suzune's murders]] through the use of [[spoiler:memory tampering]]. The reason why? [[spoiler:She wants revenge on Suzune for killing her surrogate mother, Tsubaki]].

* ForcedSleep: One of her powers is to knock people unconscious. She performs this on [[spoiler:Matsuri]], instead of outrighting murdering her like with [[spoiler:Arisa]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Killing Matsuri]] instead of [[spoiler:simply knocking her unconscious]] would have most likely led to Kagari's success. Made stranger by the fact that Kagari doesn't hesitate to [[spoiler:try and kill her]] later on.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Kagari's powers can be described as "plot-convenient"; she always seems to have a power that can move the plot forward. The most obvious uses would be: somehow being able to kill [[spoiler:Arisa]], who was [[spoiler:powered-up to maximum and using her super speed magic]] at the time; being able to make other people see visions which double as flashbacks/exposition; and being able [[spoiler:to turn herself into a witch]].

* ThePlan: [[spoiler:Alter Suzune's memories to cut off her friendship with Matsuri and make her into a magical girl assassin, then after Suzune has killed a decent amount of magical girls, step in and torment her and make her become a witch, then kill her, and thus complete Kagari's revenge gambit]].
* PolarOppositeTwins: Compared to Matsuri, Kagari's purple colour scheme and "dark"-themed magic, which contrasts with Matsuri's green colour scheme and light-themed magic (notably, green and purple are contrasting colours). Kagari is vengeful, sadistic, and quick to anger; whereas Matsuri is kind, friendly, and forgiving, and wants everyone to get along and be friends in comparison. Kagari always had sight, whereas Matsuri used to be blind; but then Kagari became blinded by her need for revenge, whereas Matsuri gained sight with her wish. Kagari also hates [[spoiler:Suzune]] and wants to kill her, whereas Matsuri likes her and wants to become/is friends with her.

* VillainousBreakdown: When [[spoiler:Matsuri]] starts interfering with her plans, Kagari starts getting ''furious'', culminating in her [[spoiler:turning herself into a witch]] because [[spoiler:Matsuri]] managed to outwit her illusionary magic and defeat her.

* YouKilledMyMother: The basis of her grudge against [[spoiler:Suzune]]. It's not ''entirely'' unfounded: [[spoiler:Suzune ''was'' indirectly responsible for Tsubaki becoming a witch (see Tsubaki's entry below)]], and then [[spoiler:responsible for killing the witch. Assuming she also disposed of the grief seed later, she complete removing any chance of reviving Tsubaki whatsoever]].

* JapanesePronouns: Uses ''atashi'', which is at odds with her tomboyish personality and use of masculine language, like Kyoko. Prior to becoming a magical girl she used ''watashi'' (and more polite/feminine language in general).