History Characters / PuellaMagiTartMagica

* {{Jerkass}}es: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Single. One. Of. Them.]]

* StoryBreakingPower:

* {{Foil}}: To Tart. Both were born in poverty, but while Tart remained a peasant, Minou was recognized by her blood mother and became a noble. They also care a lot about her girls of their respective groups. However, while Tart selflessly gave her life away to save France, Minou threw her life away working for Isabeau's plans, fully aware that she was only seen as a tool.

* AbusiveParents: She takes the role. Charles is ''terrified'' simply being in her presence.

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* SlidingScaleOfUndeadRegeneration: [[spoiler:Between the Type III and Type IV.]]

* UndyingLoyalty: To her mother Isabeau.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: She straight-up kills Corbeau once it becomes apparent that she cares more about protecting her sisters than forwarding Isabeau's agenda.]]

[[folder:The Heroes]]
!Tart
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[[caption-width-right:200:Jehanne d'Arc]]A young girl who lived with her family in the town of Domrémy in 1425. Riz Hawkwood and Cube sought her out after learning her potential. She would later be burned at the stake for being accused as a witch. Her wish was to have the power to bring light to France.

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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Before the official translation came out, most fans assumed her name was Liz, which is an actual name in the Western world. However, she's actually called Riz... Then VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory comes along and uses "Liz" as the English translation, bringing more fire to the argument.

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!Melissa de Vignolles

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!Princess Elisa Celjska

[[folder:The Villains]]
!Minou

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The first antagonistic magical girl shown in the series. She is fighting for the side of the English. [[spoiler: Her wish was that her mother would become immune to magical girl attacks]].

* AnimalMotifs: Cats. She wears a cat mask, and "Minou" means "kitty" in French.
* CatsAreMean: Minou means ''kitty'' in French, and she is very, very mean.
* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:Isabeau might be the main villain the the last battle, but Minou might as well be the FinalBoss from how much influence she has in said fight.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: It's implied she commits suicide after Isabeau's funeral.]]
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Minou manages to get Tart captured and executed, but she loses her sisters from her machination, her beloved mother dies and her goals are thwarted. She's last seen at Isabeau's funeral, vowing to [[DrivenToSuicide "follow mother soon".]]]]
* PsychoSupporter: [[spoiler: To her "mother" Isabeau.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: She loses it more and more as she loses her sisters, eventually reduced to screaming about Jeanne being a heretic for daring to oppose Isabeau.]]
* SheIsAllGrownUp: A flashback shows that when she was younger, she's obviously the youngest of the three sisters, even compared to the already young-looking Lapin. In the present, she's a very shapely young woman.
* WhipItGood: Minou likes to use a [[JustForPun cat 'o' nine tails]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: She straight-up kills Corbeau once it becomes apparent that she cares more about protecting her sisters than forwarding Isabeau's agenda.]]

!Corbeau

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The second antagonistic magical girl on the side of the English. Her wish is unknown, but she contracted first among her sisters.

* BloodKnight: Loves to "play" with other magical girls.

* PoisonousPerson: Her power spreads the plague.
* PsychoLesbian: She is seen as one by the English, who assume she seduces servant girls by her [[{{Bifauxnen}} handsome look]]. [[spoiler:The truth of the matter is much worse; she tortures and enslaves servant girls in order to exploit Isabeau's powers]].

!Lapin

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The oldest, yet youngest-looking, of the sisters fighting for the side of the English. [[spoiler: Her wish was to return her mother back from a witch into a magical girl, granting her {{immortality}}]].
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* BrotherSisterIncest: It is implied she [[{{Squick}} is in love with her sisters]].

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[[folder:Others]]
!Cube
The main Incubator of Tart's story, [[MrExposition the one who gives information about being a magical girl]] [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie and their eventual fate]], and [[AdaptationalHeroism a surprisingly honorable companion to Tart and her group]].

!Pernelle

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The main Incubator of Tart's story, [[MrExposition the one who gives information about being a magical girl]] [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie and their eventual fate]], and a surprisingly honorable companion to Tart and her group.

* NotMeThisTime: The magical girl system [[GreaterScopeVillain is his fault]], it all takes place during UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar. However, [[spoiler:he was not the one who contracted the English magical girls.]]

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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: [[spoiler: When she dies, only a broken Minou attends her funeral, so quiet and subdued that is unheard of for a queen]].

* {{Foil}}: To Madoka. Both tried to game the system, but where Madoka made her wish to selflessly save other Magical Girls from becoming witches, she succeeded and brought hope to everyone. Isabeau made her wish out of selfish ambition to sate her desires, but she failed miserably and caused immense grief to everyone. Madoka also saves Magical Girls from the fate of Witchdom and presumably into Magical Girl Valhalla, while Isabeau rips out their souls and deprives them of all personality, basically killing them and witching them out when she pleases.

* {{Adorkable}}: Tart becomes this when she starts to talk about God's miracles performed by Cube.

* {{Foil}}: To Madoka: both tried to game the system, but where Madoka succeeded and brought hope to everyone, Isabeu failed miserably and caused immense grief to everyone.

* GratuitousFrench: ''Mourir'' [[note]]"Dying". Likely a mistranslated "die!", which should have been "meurs".[[/note]]

* TooCleverByHalf: Cube describes her this way, commenting on how while her wish was a very good idea she failed to consider that Incubators cannot purify Soul Gems and thus fell to corruption.

* KnightOfCerberus: The story is already dark to begin with, but Isabeau's simple ''appearance'' is enough to undo most of Tart's efforts and send the story into a much darker tone. It even gets lampshaded by Kyuubey.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: We see her stabbing Cube with a candlestick during their first meeting.

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* BrotherSisterIncest: It is implied she [[{{Squick}} is in love with her sisters]]. Though it's possible that they're not blood-related, they still consider themselves a family.

* NonstandardCharacterDesign: She is the first magical girl in the series to be designed more like an adult than a teenager or a child. Although the date birth of the real Pernelle is somewhat vague, by the time of the story she'd would be well over 50 (if she lived long enough).

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[[caption-width-right:200:Riz Visconti]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Uses The Gates of Hell to kill Lapin, who otherwise couldn't be harmed, at the cost of her own life.]]

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Daughter of the famous La Hire, Étienne de Vignolles, Melissa works as a maid and follows her father around. She first meets Tart in Chinon when the latter came to see the Dauphin Charles VII. [[spoiler: Her wish was to save Tart and her father after Corbeau and her henchman mortally wounded them.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Elisa learned the hard way not to insult Tart.

A noble in the Order of the Dragon and a magical girl. She goes to assist Tart on behalf of the Holy Roman Empire. [[spoiler: Her wish was to be accepted by the world, because she was the bastard child of Barbara Celjska and her existence drove her mother away from court.]]

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* AnimalMotifs: A dragon, as befitting a member of the Order of the Dragon.
* BlueBlood: Part of the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire.
* BreakTheHaughty: Melissa [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps]] Elisa after she is rude to Tart. She begins behaving better afterwards.
* FatalFlaw: A great deal of her character development involves letting go of her pride.
* Foil: To Melissa. They were both [[spoiler: bastard children]], and while Melissa was accepted by her father, [[spoiler: Elisa was not and needed to wish for acceptance.]] Melissa works as a maid, while Elisa is a noblewoman.
* GoodIsNotNice: While she is a unquestionably on the side of good, she's also rude, short tempered, and arrogant. She begins to soften after her BreakTheHaughtyMoment.

* HeroicBastard: [[spoiler: She isn't actually a princess because she isn't the Emperor's child, but his wife's bastard. Her wish was to be accepted by the world, allowing her to return to court as a noble.]]

* NoblewomansLaugh: The traditional Ohohohoho.
* {{Oujo}}: A respected noblewoman treated well by France's royal court and her noble uncle.
* RedOniBlueOni: The red oni to Melissa's blue oni.

The first antagonistic magical girl shown in the series. She is fighting for the side of the English. [[spoiler: Her wish was that her mother would become immune to magical girl attacks.]]

* MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[spoiler: Minou manages to get Tart captured and executed, but she loses her sisters from her machination, her beloved mother dies and her goals are thwarted. She's last seen at Isabeau's funeral, vowing to [[DrivenToSuicide "follow mother soon".]]]]

* {{Bifauxnen}}: Corbeau is, for the lack of better word, handsome. She's lean and muscular, her cape makes her shoulders very wide, she has a firm jawline compared to other female characters, and she has a habit to seduce servant girls and often succeed mostly because she's just that handsome.
* BloodKnight: Loves to "play" with other magical girls.

* TheCorruption: She has the power to force other magical girls to take on her Soul Gem's impurities, and [[spoiler: can spread the Black Plague.]]

* LightningBruiser: Looking at her official magic chart in the manga, Corbeau has above average stats in all categories, especially offense, defense, and speed. This makes her a legitimate threat in the battlefield as she can make short work of French soldiers and other magical girls very quickly and brutally, and is very tough to take down in general.

* PlagueDoctor: Her mask, combined with her power to spread the Black Death, makes her this in motif.

* PsychoLesbian: She is seen as one by the English, who assume she seduces servant girls. [[spoiler:The truth of the matter is much worse; she tortures and enslaves servant girls in order to exploit Isabeau's powers.]]
* SheCleansUpNicely: While she's LadyLooksLikeADude otherwise, when she appears in front of the English war council, she's wearing a very nice dress and wide-brimmed hat, does her hair a little, and sits mildly cross-legged. She looks less like a mad warrior and more like a masquerade ball dancer.

The oldest, yet youngest-looking, of the sisters fighting for the side of the English. [[spoiler: Her wish was to return her mother back from a witch into a magical girl, granting her immortality.]]

* CurbStompBattle: Subverted. [[spoiler: She runs into an ambush by herself and is seemingly swiftly dispatched, only to turn into a witch and then back into a magical girl afterwards, completely unharmed.]]

* NighInvulnerable: She is impossible to kill. [[spoiler: Even when she turns into a witch, she will just turn back into a magical girl when killed.]]

* PerpetualMotionMonster: [[spoiler:Because of her power of changing witches back into magical girls, she practically can't be stopped even when tainting her Soul Gem beyond limit. She full-blown takes advantage of that one quirk in battle by being the one with most endurance when it comes to magic. Thus, Riz is forced to sacrifice herself to drag Lapin into an endless darkness and seal her there forever.]]

[[folder: SPOILER CHARACTER]]
! Isabeau
The Woman Who Sold Her Country. Isabeau is Prince Charles' mother and the main villain of the story. She was approached by Kyubey before her marriage, and she had many questions for him before deciding on her wish; [[StoryBreakerPower to gain everything the Incubators possessed.]] This turned her into a magical girl-Incubator hybrid that was able to contract other magical girls and gain vast amounts of power from them. She planned to conquer all of France with a magical girl army, but she failed to ask whether Incubators could purify Soul Gems and so accidentally used up too much magical power, transforming into a witch. However, one of her wards, Lapin, wished to her witch to return her to her previous self. This turned her into a dangerous witch-Incubator hybrid that retained a human's intelligence but the malice and hatred of a witch.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: [[spoiler: When she dies only a broken Minou attends her funeral, unheard of for a queen.]]
* AbusiveParents: She is the abusive parent. Charles is ''terrified'' simply being in her presence.

* TheDreaded: Everyone is frightened of her. Simply ''seeing'' her sends her child, Charles, into a HeroicBSOD.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Once the Queen of France, now a soulless witch.
* GratuitousFrench: ''Mourir''[[note]]"Dying". Likely a mistranslated "die!", which should have been "meurs".[[/note]]

* TheRedBaron: Known as The Woman Who Sold Her Country (to the English).

* SuperEmpowering: The contracts she makes only work while she is alive; once she dies [[spoiler: Minou]] loses all her powers and returns to being a normal girl.

* AdaptationalHeroism: The Kyubey in this story [[spoiler: is awfully honourable, and doesn't try to push Tart into despair despite the power he'd collect from her because she did everything he asked of her and he felt gratitude towards her.]]

* NotMeThisTime: The magical girl system [[GreaterScopeVillain is his fault]], it all takes place during UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar. However, [[spoiler: he was not the one who contracted the English magical girls.]]
* OutGambitted: The whole reason he's in the predicament he's in is because [[spoiler: no one considered what would happen if a magical girl wished to become an Incubator.]]

A mysterious older magical girl working with Cube.

* BarrierMaiden: Can create impenetrable barriers.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: [[spoiler: Subverted, as she's not actually a princess.]]

* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Unlike the rest of the magical girls seen within the series so far, she seems to be an adult.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Before the official translation came out, most fans assumed her name was Liz, which is an actual name in the Western world. However, she's actually called Riz... Then VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory comes along and uses "Liz" as the english translation, bringing more fire to the argument.

! Princess Elisa Celjska

The second antagonistic magical girl on the side of the English.

* MagnetismManipulation: As a witch, she can attract all weapons to herself, rendering magical girls unable to fight.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Before the official translation came out, most fans assumed her name was Liz, which is an actual name in the Western world. However, she's actually called Riz.