Despite being a Darker and Edgier entry in the Magical Girl genre (or possibly because of it,) Puella Magi Madoka Magica has generated a surprising amount of memes. Because being meguca is suffering...
Memes relating to the Gaiden Game Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story can be found here. (Warning: unmarked spoilers for the original series may be present.)
Please add entries in the following format:
- The meme. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.[[/labelnote]] Explanation
- Further mutations and successor memes, if any.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Deny the obvious, uphold the inane! Explanation
- Kyubey stares into your soul. /人◕‿‿◕人\\ Explanation (with spoilers!)
- He also wants you to save a bunch of money on your car insurance, which is a whole other can of memes.
- "I don't understand this at all" - said by Kyubey quite a few times, emotionlessly, when he fails to understand why some humans would consider certain traumatic experiences or revelations traumatic. Rises to Ascended Meme status in Rebellion when it is screamed as one by countless Incubators in a This Cannot Be! moment, as their plans crumble around them.
- AAAAAHHHHH!!!
- Everybody Hates Kyubey Explanation
- "Let's make a contract?" (Link has NSFW advertisements.)
- It should be noted that Kyubey is a Fountain of Memes.
- I r in ur magical anime, KILLIN UR MAGICAL GIRLZ. Explanation (major spoilers!)
- Because of the general depressing and horrific nature of the show, the "MORNING RESCUE" Japanese commercial that a certain fansubbing group left in has been the only thing considered as a safe haven. Taken to its logical conclusion. (Spoilers in both links!)
- ...And conversely, a certain WMG that Morning Rescue is actually LCL has shattered what little refuge was previously believed to exist. NO ESCAPE.
- And now J-List has started carrying Morning Rescue, specifically because of the meme.
- Just to let you not escape Kyubey just changed Morning Rescue to Morning ResKYUBEY.
- You thought it was a cute girl? Too bad! It was just Sayaka-chan! Explanation
- Also in gameshow form.
- "being meguca is suffering..." Explanation
- Some lines from the Meduka Meguca "series" have become particularly memetic:
- "mumi why" Explanation
- "do not throw souls!" Explanation
- "my city now"Explanation
- Referring to Walpurgisnacht as "Brazilian Night" and rendering her laugh as "huehuehuehuehue huahuahuahuahua".Explanation
- Some lines from the Meduka Meguca "series" have become particularly memetic:
- "being _____ is suffering..." Explanation
- We need to go wider. WIIIIIIIDER. Explanation
- This became Hilarious in Hindsight after Rebellion. The movie takes place in what is essentially a dream world.
- Homerun-chan Explanation
- Homu homu Explanation
- Homura, for one reason or another, is often drawn with cat ears. Sometimes this spills over into a full-blown Little Bit Beastly portrayal.
- Might be an Ascended Meme as in the Halloween event of the online game Madoka Magica Online Homura is using a cat costume◊.
- Possible Tsubasa Hanekawa reference?note
- "If I wished for it, would Kyubey let me fuck him/her/it?", accompanied by a cropped image of Kyubey porn. And yes, not only does it exist, there is also a disturbing large amount of it.
- Misspelling "Walpurgisnacht", e.g. Whatsburger Night, Walmart Night, Walrus Night, Walt Disney Night, Brazilian Night, Waluigi Night, Walgreens Night...
- Somewhat of an Ascended Meme after Homura's English voice actor "accidentally" referred to it as "Das Wienerschnitzel."
- "That won't be necessary." Explanation
- Madoka Old Spice Explanation
- Unlimited _____ Works Explanation
- On that last one: Unlimited Explosives Don't Work
- The Perverted Homura - (NSFW)Explanation
- Then after the finale, a whole slew of fanart appeared depicting goddess!Madoka turning the tables on Homura, usually by using her omniscience to peep on her.
- Then comes the Movie Rebellion, it completely turns around on goddess!Madoka when devil!Homura captures and usurps her position as god.
- Tiro Finale (Physical) note
- Mami's breasts. note
- LOVE ME DO! \( *´ 3`*)/ note
- I was... such a fool/I was... such an idiot: Explanation (spoilers!)
- MadoTitusnote
- Homura Spallow
- Hilarious in Hindsight when Gundam AGE actually gave us a magical girl-esque mobile suit, the Fawn Farsia.
- Yeah, it's that kind of show. Explanation
- Mami is forever alone/lonely Mami is lonely. Explanation
- It's become quite common for fanart to depict Madoka as a white harp seal, or "Gomadoka/Sealdoka" (a pun off "goma", the Japanese word for spotted seal).
- Less known are Homuotter, Dolphin Sayaka, Penguin Kyoko, and Jellyfish Mami.
- "homura resets the timeline" Explanation (spoilers!)
- Madoka is the Evangelion of anime. Explanation
- Bunnycat is a dick. Explanation
- What do I look like, a fucking miracle worker? Explanation
- In a similar vein: That's not how it works you little shit. Explanation
- PEDO MAMI Explanation
- MADOKA IS A RIP-OFF OF RYUKI!!!Explanation
- However this became Hilarious in Hindsight, because the main writer of Madoka Magica become the main writer of Kamen Rider Gaim, Take That! Hardcore fans. This creates:
- GAIM IS A RIP OFF OF MADOKA!! Explanation
- OH GOD NOT EX-AID TOO!! Explanation
- However this became Hilarious in Hindsight, because the main writer of Madoka Magica become the main writer of Kamen Rider Gaim, Take That! Hardcore fans. This creates:
- One that crosses with Ultraman Zero.
- To start with, his official Twitter account stated the readers "to be careful of "strangers" that offered them the chance to become a "magical girl"".
- Then it expands to Ultraman Zero directly choking a Kyubey rag doll (the picture itself was around since 2011).
- "That wasn't very cash money of you" Explanation
- Sayacopter Explanation
- You're mine Madoka, mine, mine, mine. Explanation
- But that's Forbidden Love! Girls can't love girls! Explanation
- But that's HERESY! Explanation
- ONCE YOU POP THE FUN DON'T STOP Explanation
- HEADCHOMP and variations. Explanation (major spoilers!)
- MAMI MOGU MOGU. Explanation (major spoilers!)
- OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM
- Headless Mami. There's more merchandise of her than you can shake a musket at. Also sometimes referred to as "Don't lose your head."
- Even the ANN has made a crack at this scene when announcing that Mami would adorn her own cake starting in April 2012: The Mami figure is not edible.
- And when a Charlotte plush toy measuring at 4 feet was announced in October 2013: Let's just say it's big enough that someone's head could fit in its mouth.
- Fanartists have developed a streak of Black Comedy when it comes to depicting Mami post episode 3, in particular showing her with◊ Celty.
- And more recently with◊ Dirk Strider.
- And now with two more victims who died early deaths in their series.
- The victim of that scene has practically verbified; "to Mami" can now mean to Off with His Head!.
- I WANT MY HEAD BACK
- A Mami with a head is not Mami. Explanation (major spoilers!)
- Even the Japanese voice cast has had their fun with it; in a subtitled foreword that they gave before international showings of the films, Kaori Mizuhashi, who voiced Mami, is given the title of "Head of Shocking Events"
- This meme crosses over with a Signature Scene from Mobile Suit Gundam: "Mami's Last Shooting" (It's because the RX-78-2 Gundam had its head blown off when it made that shot.)
- In Japan (real life), you eat cake. In Soviet Russia (magical world), cake eats YOU!! Explanation (Episode 3 spoiler)
- Cake Planet. note
- And somewhat Hilarious in Hindsight, as it was recently revealed that ABC 3 will be airing◊ the anime in prime time. Let's just sit and wait until episode 3 kicks in.
- They kept it in. They did cut the conversation between the two mysoginists on the train in episode 8, though.
- And somewhat Hilarious in Hindsight, as it was recently revealed that ABC 3 will be airing◊ the anime in prime time. Let's just sit and wait until episode 3 kicks in.
- Poorfag/Poor-chan and Failurefag. Poor-chan in particular has gotten fanart, comics, magical girl and witch forms, shipped with Mami or Kyouko, and a series of stories on 4Chan about her Perpetual Poverty. note
- There's a chance that the animator intended to draw a Libretto W100 folding tablet.
- In Episode 4, Madoka finds Hitomi being controlled by a witch. When Madoka attempts to run away, Hitomi stops her by slamming her in the stomach. Now most fanart with her in it somehow involve tummy punching.
- NOW SHE'S LOST IT / SHE KNOWS SHE CAN KILL Explanation (major spoilers!)
- ZA WARUDO! Explanation (spoilers!)
- After people clamoring over the Fridge Logic/Horror of Sayaka's body still being in that hotel room: Weekend at Sayaka's.
- Episode 11 softens it somewhat: It's shown that her body was found.
- After the finale came out in Good Friday April 2011, there's suddenly a lot of noise about NAKED LESBIAN SPACE HUGS and Madokami.
- The Church of Madoka/Madoka died for your sins./Do you accept Madoka as your Lord and Savior?
- Serial Experiments Madoka/Homura May Cry. Explanation (major spoilers for Lain and Madoka)
- I am Penitent Gretchen, or rather, Kriemhild Gretchen as she should have been. Explanation (major spoilers!)
- The finale is often referred to as End of Madoka due to the similarities between End of Evangelion and it. Somewhat.
- The Church of Madoka/Madoka died for your sins./Do you accept Madoka as your Lord and Savior?
- LuminousExplanation
- MAMI IS THE CHEESE. SHE IS THE BEST CHARACTER ON THE SHOW. Explanation
- Homura did nothing wrong!/Homura did everything wrong!Explanation
- The Homura Heresy. Explanation (Rebellion spoilers)
- Where is the fourth/concept movie?/Is there going to be a sequel to Rebellion? Or similar Explanation
- Christ you are extremely fucking selfish, dieExplanation
- Madoka = Meowbahh Explanation
- Can't they just Madoka and Homura kiss already? Explanation
- Homura married Tatsuya in Tomoe Mami's Mundane Everyday Life, seriously?Explanation
- ORIKO WAS RIGHT Explanation
- If Oriko was right, why did she wear a bucket on her head? Explanation