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Madoka Kaname

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If someone ever tells me it's a mistake to have hope, well, then, I'll just tell them they're wrong. And I'll keep telling them 'til they believe! No matter how many times it takes.
~ Madoka Kaname in Episode 12
Well, I'm going to go now... That's why I have to go. I'm the only one who can stop Walpurgis Night. I have to protect everyone. I'm really happy I became friends with you. Saving you before you were assaulted by Witches has been my pride until now. That's why being a Magical Girl is truly great. I really think so. Farewell, Homura-chan. Take care.
~ Madoka to Homura Akemi
Homura-chan, you can go to the past, right? To prevent such an ending, you can change history, right? Can you save me before I get deceived by Kyubei? Can I ask for just one more thing? I don't want to become a Witch. Although I've seen terrible and sad things, there are still many things I want to protect in this world. Homura-chan, you finally called me by my name. I'm so happy.
~ Madoka to Homura Akemi
I want to erase all witches before they are even born. I will erase every single witch in every universe, past and future with my own hands...I don't care what you call it. All those magical girls who held onto their hopes and fought against witches I don't want to see them cry. I want them to stay smiling until the end. If any rule or law stands in my way I will destroy it. I will rewrite it. That is my prayer. That is my wish. Now grant it, Incubator!
~ Madoka to Kyube when deciding her wish

Background

Madoka Kaname, the viewpoint and title character, is a gentle and friendly 14-year old girl. Living an ordinary life, Madoka has a loving family and is surrounded by good friends. One day she has a dream of a mysterious girl fighting an ominous creature. The next day, Homura Akemi, the girl from her dream, comes to her class as a transfer student.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Madoka Kaname’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Madoka in the Anime
After Mami's death, Madoka changed her mind about becoming a magical girl. In Episode 6, Junko and Madoka had a conversation on how difficult it is to do the right thing, even when no one is in the wrong (per say). Junko's advice was for Madoka to be on the wrong against her friend to solve the problem, even if it means that her friend would hate her for it. Episode 8: Kyubey claimed Madoka's power to be godlike, to the point where she could even change the laws of the universe if she wished for it. Episode 10: In the first timeline, Madoka along with Mami saved Homura from a familiar. She died during the fight with Walpurgis Night. In the second timeline, Madoka turned into a witch for the first time, revealing to Homura the link between magical girls and Witches. In a later timeline, Madoka killed Mami in order to save Homura, as Mami lost control of herself and had just killed Kyoko. This is also the timeline in which Madoka asked Homura to go back in time to prevent her from becoming a magical girl. Madoka's power increased exponentially after every timeline. The first time showed she was an ordinary magical girl. In later timeline she had enough power to defeat Walpurgis in one shot, was capable of destroying the entire planet within 10 days in her witch form, and satisfied all Kyubey's energy quotas of the Earth. Episode 11: Junko confronts Madoka to stop her from getting into the danger of the storm, Madoka reminds her mother that she is a good girl and never does anything wrong but she tells her she needs to do this, a throwback to their earlier conversation. Madoka knows that what she is doing will worry her family, but she also knows that she must disobey her mother to save her family and her town. This conversation between Junko and Madoka earns her mother's trust.Homura's time repeats had linked multiple parallel universes together with Madoka's fate as their center. With every reset, Homura would force yet another parallel universe to be centered around Madoka. The accumulated karma is the reason why Madoka's potential power is so great. Hearing the revelations from Kyubey regarding the history of Magical Girls, Madoka was deeply hurt and thus wanted to save these girls from despair. Episode 12: Madoka wished to erase all witches in every dimension, in every timeline, with her own hands. This created a paradox because Madoka would eventually erase her own witch self, while she must continue to exist and destroy other witches. This paradox resulted in Madoka escaping the bounds of reality and ascending to godhood as Ultimate Madoka. Since Madoka never existed as a human in this new reality, she is no longer remembered by anyone, except for Homura, and Tatsuya for some reason. Sayaka also remembers her after she passes on and becomes a part of the Law of Cycles, as Sayaka confesses to her in episode 12 that she has caused her best friend a lot of trouble; this could be interpreted as Sayaka having learnt of her unfortunate fate of turning into a witch in the other timelines, an outcome which clearly inflicted a great deal of emotional hurt on Madoka.

Wraith Arc
Madoka only makes a few small cameo appearance in Wraith Arc. In the beginning she is seen bidding farewell to Homura and giving her her ribbons. In chapter 2 she is seen taking Sayaka once she's used up her magic and in Chapter 9 she is seen helping Homura to destroy the time shield and resetting the timeline so the curses of the previous universe don't interfere with the current one.

A mutant wraith disguises itself in Madoka's form and helps to assist Homura throughout the story, even going so far as to join in the battle against the mutant wraiths.

Rebellion
At the end of the anime, Madoka becomes known as the Law of Cycles - the power that brings salvation to magical girls. However, Homura tells Kyubey about the witch system, and Kyubey decides to use Homura's Soul Gem in an experiment. Kyubey places Homura's Soul Gem in an Isolation Field - a space that blocks out all external influence, including the Law of Cycles. However, the Isolation Field prevents Homura from being born as a witch, meaning that Madoka's wish is not invalidated. (Although not directly stated, its implied that by creating a space where the Law of Cycles cannot enter, Kyubey blocks Madoka's omniscience.) Ultimately, a witch barrier forms inside Homura's Soul Gem. Kyubey allows the barrier to draw in victims, including Mami, Kyoko, and Madoka's family. Kyubey believes that this will eventually cause the Law of Cycles to materialize in the barrier. Kyubey's goal is to observe the Law of Cycles, which would ultimately allow him to interfere with and control it.

However, Madoka is aware of Kyubey's plan. She enters Homura's barrier with Sayaka and Nagisa Momoe (the magical girl who became Charlotte). Sayaka and Nagisa are now part of the Law of Cycles and are capable of invoking the power of their witch forms (since their witches were also absorbed by the Law of Cycles before they were born.) Madoka entrusts them with her memories and powers in order to fool Kyubey, and allows Homura's barrier to alter her memories and suppress her powers.

Within Homura's barrier, Madoka believes that she is an ordinary magical girl. She is reunited with her family, who were also taken into Homura's barrier and had their memories altered. Along with Sayaka, Kyoko, Mami, and Bebe (a disguised Nagisa), Madoka fights Nightmares, monsters created by Homura's barrier. Kyubey recognizes Madoka as the Law of Cycles but is unable to determine the nature of her powers. He decides to stay close to Madoka, pretending to be a harmless animal-like helper. Eventually Homura appears in her barrier and joins the other magical girls. Homura is unaware that she is a witch, but she soon realizes that she's in a witch barrier and resolves to discover the truth.

Homura's journey brings her into contact and conflict with the other magical girls. Madoka comes to Homura and offers to listen to her problems. Homura tries to tell Madoka about her fate at the end of the anime, framing it as a dream she had. Madoka tells Homura that it sounds like a bad dream, and reassures Homura that she would never want to go away to a place where she can't see anyone again. Homura then believes that Madoka isn't happy being the Law of Cycles(or isn't as happy as she could be), and exclaims that she have stopped Madoka from sacrificing herself. Homura then decides to believe that Madoka is real (having wondered if Madoka was an illusion), and begins to realize that she herself is the witch.

Ultimately, Homura learns about Kyubey's plot, and decides to foil it by dying in her barrier. Homura transforms into her witch form, Homulilly, and marches to her death. Fortunately, Sayaka and Nagisa have explained everything to the other magical girls, and they have a plan to save Homura. Sayaka summons her witch self Oktavia and an army of familiars. Madoka and Nagisa use their magic to attack the ceiling of Homulilly's barrier, while the other magical girls, the summoned familiars, and Oktavia hold off Homulilly and her army of familiars. Ultimately, Madoka destroys the ceiling of the barrier, revealing Kyubey's Isolation Field. Madoka then reaches out Homura's humanity and the two girls combine their powers to destroy the Isolation Field from the inside, completely foiling Kyubey's plan.

With the Isolation Field destroys, all the magical girls reappear in the real world. Sayaka and Nagisa return Madoka's memories and powers to her and she transforms into Ultimate Madoka. However, Madoka is still in a human form (which means she lacks omniscience and can be seen by others). As she comes down to take Homura's Soul Gem into the Law of Cycles, Homura grabs Madoka's hands before her Soul Gem can be purified. Homura's Soul Gem turns black, and then fills with a new color. (It's unclear if this color was something that had already existed in Homura's Soul Gem, or if it is the result of Homura grabbing Madoka and interfering with the Law of Cycles). Homura's actions causes reality to crack. Madoka is then separated from Ultimate Madoka (it is unclear if Homura deliberately caused this, or if it is the result of Homura's interference). The colors inside Homura's Soul Gem explode outward. The cracks perpetuate throughout reality, followed by the colors of Homura's Soul Gem, which engulfs the universe.

Homura has now become a new existence, which she defines as a demon. She explains that she took a piece of the Law of Cycles, which corresponds to Madoka's existence as a person before she became the Law of Cycles. Homura creates a new world where the magical girls can be alive and happy, although she alters their memories to fit with the new world. In this new reality, Madoka believes she has spent three years in America with her family, and they have just moved back to Japan. Madoka transfers into her class from the original reality, reversing her role with Homura's. Homura introduces herself to Madoka and offers to show her around the school. As they walk together, Homura asks Madoka how she feels returning to her hometown. Madoka says it feels familiar, but something feels different. As the keep walking, Madoka realizes that the thing that feels different is herself. Her eyes glow gold, her yellow hair ribbons untie themselves, and reality changes. Homura grabs onto Madoka and says that Madoka is her true self right now, returning Madoka and reality to normal. Homura asks Madoka if she thinks the world is precious, and if she thinks either laws or desires are more important. Madoka thinks that law is more important, saying that selfishly breaking the law is a bad thing. Homura takes off the hair ribbon she received from Madoka and says that she and Madoka might become enemies someday. She ties the ribbon into Madoka's hair, saying that she doesn't care about being Madoka's enemy as she just wants a world where Madoka can be happy. In one of the final scenes of the movie, Madoka is shown happily unpacking boxes with her family.


Drama CDs
From Drama CD 1 "Memories of you", the reason Madoka became a Magical Girl in the first timeline is to save a cat which had been run over by a car. Madoka also treated Homura very nicely from the beginning, who at that time was being bullied. We also learn that whenever Madoka made a contract and become a Magical Girl, she would act much more confident since it gave her a sense of purpose. Madoka's kindness in this first timeline towards Homura is one of the major reasons why Homura is so drawn to her. Homura's interventions during the course of the anime prevented this change.

In the Drama CD 2"Sunny Day Life" Madoka used to get good grades, but her duties as a magical girl are interfering with her studies. For what is worth, Madoka's grades are still better than Sayaka's.

The Different Story
Madoka first appears at the very end of volume 1, waking Mami up in her apartment in order to get her help stop Kyoko and Sayaka's fight. She has not contracted yet in this timeline, but accompanies Mami and Sayaka on their witch hunts.

Madoka is worried about Sayaka, and always thinks how to help her. She tells Kyousuke about how his wrist was healed with Sayaka's wish. This doesn't help Sayaka in the end, however.

Madoka makes her wish to revive Sayaka and becomes a magical girl at the very end of this story, this causes Homura to give up on this timeline. Madoka doesn't know the truth about the magical girl system. She thinks Sayaka was killed by witches because Homura told her so. Madoka meets Kyoko after being helped by her and Homura. They become friends secretly and tell each other about another side of Sayaka and Mami.

Kazumi Magica
Madoka's silhouette appeared once during Juubey's explanation about Magical Girl system. She also makes a single-panel cameo in the extra pages in the first volume of the collected edition.

Oriko Magica
Madoka appears in Chapter 3, asking Homura to go home with her, along with Sayaka and Hitomi. She is well protected by Homura and isn't aware of Magical Girl system.

She appears in Chapter 4 for one page. She is shown with her friends Homura, Sayaka and Hitomi going out for snacks after school.

In chapters 5 through 7, Mitakihara Junior High is attacked by Oriko and Kirika. Oriko speaks to the school through the school's broadcast system, and seems to give a threatening look to Madoka as she claims she will defeat a creature of ultimate despair that will descend upon them. As a witch's barrier forms over the school, Madoka is separated from her friends attacked by familiars. Homura saves her in time, but Madoka demands to know why she does not help the other students. Homura knows she cannot save everyone, and wanted to try to save Madoka anyway. Madoka apologizes as Homura puts her in a protective barrier so familiars cannot attack her and leaves to defeat the perpetrators. Madoka escapes from the protective barrier created by Homura and tries to help Homura with Sayaka and Hitomi. Madoka was Oriko's real target. The white magical girl wanted to kill her before she could contract and become a magical girl herself, and then the most powerful witch ever. She is killed by Oriko at the very end. Oriko uses a shard of Kirika's witch body to impale Madoka through the torso. Once Oriko dies and the witch barrier is lifted, Hitomi and Sayaka are seen mourning for Madoka.

In the final chapter of Sadness Prayer, Madoka appears in her goddess form before Oriko and Kirika after both of them die at the end of the manga.

Tart Magica
Madoka appears in the last chapter (Chapter 21), as Ultimate Madoka when Melissa de Vignolles tells Eliza Celjska that her preach about Tart being saved and redeemed in the future will be possible.

Statistics

Key: First Timeline | Magi Madoka Magic Anime Timeline | As a Witch | Ultimate Madoka (Pre-Ascension) | Ultimate Madoka (Post-Ascension)

Tier: 9-A | At least 7-B | At least 7-B | At least 5-B, likely Far Higher. Would eventually be 2-C | 2-C

Name: Madoka Kaname[1]

Origin: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Sex: Female

Age: 14, Inapplicable as Ultimate Madoka (Madoka's existence shfiting into a higher plane and becoming nothing more then a concept, where no one can perceive her any longer and likewise she can't interact with anyone else, with all traces of her existence being erased in the lower world, as if she never existed[2])

Classification: Human, Magical Girl, Witch

Status: Deceased (Died in the first timeline) | Alive | Other (After destroying her witch, her life has ceased to have either a beginning or end[3]. Madoka's existence shfiting into a higher plane and becoming nothing more then a concept, where no one can perceive her any longer and likewise she can't interact with anyone else[4])

Alignment: Lawful Good (Despite all the horrors Madoka has seen, she is still completely nice to everyone, and refuses to let people such as Sayaka Miki fight other magical girls, even if the magical girls themselves have done horrible things)

Dimensionality: 3-D, Unknown as Ultimate Madoka (After destroying her witch, her life has ceased to have either a beginning or end[5]. Madoka's existence shfiting into a higher plane and becoming nothing more then a concept, where no one can perceive her any longer and likewise she can't interact with anyone else[6])

Attack Potency: Room level (Comparable to the likes of Sayaka Miki who killed the likes of H.N. Elly who is this large in size[7]. Comparable to Mami Tomoe, who can defeat a witch of this size[8]) | At least City level (In previous timelines, she took down Walpurgisnacht with a single shot[9]. Walpurgisnacht upon merely waking up destroyed a huge portion of the city[10]. Due to her sheer strength she should be far above the fusion of Walpurgisnacht and a witch which was noted that it would destroy the entire city from the shockwave alone[11]) | At least City level (Became so much more powerful that it was noted she would be able to destroy the Earth in 10 days[12]. Noted by Kyubey that Homura Akemi doing all of those timeline resets made Madoka the strongest witch of them all[13]) | At least Planet level, likely Far Higher (Madoka at this point has the power of all of her karmic destiny combined along with a wish that changes the very laws of causality, massively amplifying her power to a state beyond any magical girl in existence[14], one-shotted her witch form which was so large it was enveloping the entire earth[15]). Would eventually become Universe level (Her soul gems power was noted to bring forth enough hope to give birth to an entire universe and enough despair to bring an end to the entire universe[16]) | Universe level (Her soul gems power was noted to bring forth enough hope to give birth to an entire universe and enough despair to bring an end to the entire universe[17]. Homura Akemi with her powers noted that if she wanted to, she could destroy the universe[18], and enveloped the entire universe after splitting Ultimate Madoka from her body[19])

Durability: Room level. Her Magical Girl Physiology makes her difficult to kill | At least City level. Her Magical Girl Physiology makes her difficult to kill At least City level. Her Witch Physiology makes her difficult to kill | | At least Planet level, likely Far Higher. Would eventually become Universe level. Her physiology apart of the Law of Cycles makes her extremely difficult to kill | Universe level. Her physiology apart of the Law of Cycles makes her extremely difficult to kill

Striking Strength: Room Class | At least City Class | At least City Class | At least Planet Class, likely Far Higher. Would eventually become Universe Class | Universe Class

Lifting Strength: Superhuman (Comparable to Mami Tomoe who can lift a giant gun cannon with ease) | At least Superhuman | At least Superhuman | At least Superhuman. Would eventually become Unknown | Unknown

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Comparable to Sayaka Miki, who is able to move so fast that she can only be seen as a blue beam or an afterimage[20]) | Superhuman | Superhuman | At least Superhuman. Would eventually become Unknown | Unknown

Combat Speed: Supersonic | Supersonic | Supersonic | FTL, Higher with Magic. Would eventually become Unknown | Unknown

Reaction Speed: Supersonic (Comparable to Sayaka Miki, who was able to block hundreds of bullets from Holy Mami[21]) | Supersonic | Supersonic | FTL, Higher with Magic (Magical Girls are able to dodge multiple lasers being shot at them at once by a group of Wraths. Sayaka was able to take on an entire hoard of these Wraiths while weakened without getting hit once). Would eventually become Unknown | Unknown

Stamina: Superhuman+ (Comparable to Sayaka Miki who can fight for weeks straight without showing much tiring[22]), Limitless as Ultimate Madoka (Noted by Mami Tomoe that she will continue fighting witches forever)

Range: Standard Melee Range, Hundreds of Meters with Bow (Her attacks can go as far as Magical Girls such as Mami Tomoe and Homura Akemi, both of whom use guns[23]), High Multiversal as Goddess Madoka (Unleashed a massive amount of arrow attacks across all timelines[24]. Can travel across the many universes to stop witches from transforming[25], which has infinite universes)

Intelligence: Average (Madoka is portrayed as an average student, though she was shown in the first timeline to be a competent enough magical girl, the main reason for her strength in later timelines is due to Homura Akemi). Cosmic as Ultimate Madoka (As Ultimate Madoka becomes one with the laws of cycles, she can now see everything that ever has or will happen, both the universes that could have been and the universes that might one day be[26])


Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Multilingualism (Magical Girls are able to understand Bebe, who speaks in only gibberish[27]), Weapon Mastery (Madoka is a skilled user of her bow, which shoots out energy projectiles[28]), Dimensional Storage (Magical Girls are able to store weapons in their soul gems or other parts of their bodies[29]), Magic (As noted by their name, Magical Girls are able to use magic, with in some cases their miracles being strong enough to form their magic as other versions of themselves that can converse with them and plan out ideas), Immortality (Type 6; Magical Girl’s bodies are stated to be like zombies or an empty shell for their souls to possess, where there body can take lethal blows without them dying[30][31]), Pain Tolerance (The bodies of a Magical Girl experience far less pain than a normal human would. This insures that they are able to fight at peak performance despite receiving fatal injuries. Kyubey also states that their are able to completely block out the pain from their body[32]), Healing (Mid; Kyubey states that if all of the organs in ones body get destroyed and every last drop of blood escapes ones body, Magical Girls are able to heal themselves to continue fighting[33]. Magical Girls are able to heal their body parts with magic[34]. Magical Girls can heal injuries on people such as when Mami healed Kyubey's injuries[35]), Extrasensory Perception (Magical Girls can see witches, who are invisibile to normal people[36]), Limited Avatar Creation (Magical Girls are able to possess fake bodies that are much stronger than their normal bodies[37][38]), Limited Telepathy (All magical girls are able to use telepathy in order to communicate with other people around them[39]), Limited Enhanced Senses (Magical Girls are able to pick up the magic trail of a witch with their soul gems[40]), Limited Wish Granting (Through forming a contract with Kyubey, one wish can be granted from him[41]), Limited Law Manipulation & Reality Warping (Magical Girls can cause miracles that overcome the laws of the world, with their desire taking form, allowing things such as Homura to remember Madoka even after she became a concept and has been conceptually erased from the entire multiverse), Transformation & Cloth Manipulation (Type 1; Magical Girls are able to create cloths to transform and can use these cloths in order to attack or restrain opponents[42]. Type 3; Magical Girls through not purifying their soul gem can become corrupted and turn into witches[43][44]), Air Manipulation (Casualy blew away all the smoke from a fire extinguisher[45]), Curse Negation (Magical Girls can negate curses placed by witches[46]), Power Bestowal (Magical Girls are able to give magical powers to regular objects, amplifying it’s normal properties[47]), Summoning (Magical Girls are able to summon multiple weapons from their bodies[48]. Madoka is able to summon Kyubey), Restoration (Magical Girls are able to use their magic in order to keep their or another person’s body from decomposing[49]), Dimensional Travel (Magical Girls are able to open up portals that send them to different locations or into labyrinths[50]), Self-Destruction (Magical Girls can overload their soulgem to self-destruct[51]), Forcefield Creation (Magical Girls are able to create forcefields to protect themselves from attacks[52]), Telekinesis (Magical Girls are able to take control of and move objects with their magic[53]), Flight (Magical Girls are able to fly[54]), Clairvoyance (Magical Girls are able to see other Magical Girls through their soul gems[55]), Dream Manipulation (Magical Girls are able to go into dreams and interact with them[56]), Spatial Manipulation (Magical Girls are able to break open an isolation field, which is created by isolation a soul gem in a separate space so that the Law of Cycles can’t enter[57]), Hair Manipulation (Magical Girls are able to change their hair style with magic[58]), Subjective Reality (Magical girls are able to create things that they want, like when everyone created a fruit that they wanted to be. Sayaka was also able to pull a violin from a piece of paper and gave it form[59]), BFR (Type 2; All magical girls are able to put objects and people inside of their soul gems and trap them there forever[60]), Purification (Magical Girls are able to create Doppels that completely purify the user’s soul gems and give them an enormous power boost[61]), Statistics Amplification (Magical Girls are able to create Doppels that completely purify the user’s soul gems and give them an enormous power boost[62]. Magical Girls are able to connect with other magical sources, in order to greatly boost their magical powers and combine different properties to their abilities[63]), Fusionism & Statistics Boost (Magical Girls are able to do a combined attack through forming in a line and holding up their soul gems), Pocket Reality Manipulation (Magical Girls have an entire pocket reality inside of their soul gem where they can directly speak with their magic), Fate Protection & Statistics Amplification (Through Homura's constant resets, she's made it here so many threads of fate gather tightly around Madoka Kaname, making her into a powerful magical girl through Homura repeatedly turning back time, causing a side effect where multiple timelines converged together and centered them all on the existence of Madoka Kaname, where she now has threads of fate of seperate timelines linking to her current timeline self making her magical potential so impossibly huge, where all of the Karmic Destiny set spinning in all those different timelines all attached to Madoka[64]. Passive; Madoka passively gets stronger and stronger each timeline as her power gets stacked beng able to take out Walpurgisnacht in a single shot, who cannot be defeated by any other Magical Girls[65]. Magical Girls are able to create Doppels that completely purify the user’s soul gems and give them an enormous power boost[66]. Magical Girls are able to connect with other magical sources, in order to greatly boost their magical powers and combine different properties to their abilities[67]. With Range Lv 1, passively increases range damage dealt by 10%. With Aim Level 1, increases aim rate by 10%. With Latent Energy, her damage output increases when her health is low), Energy Projection (Shoots energy projectiles out of her bow created from nothing[68]), Cartoon Physics (Low Potency; With Pannier Rocket, inflates her body and attack the enemy with a body blow), Regeneration (Mid-Low; With autoheal level 1, passively recovers health and magic), Statistics Reduction (With Range Resist Levels 1 and 2, range damage inflicted on her decreases by 15% and 30%), Holy Manipulation & Restoration (With Divine Prayer, slightly purifies an ally's soul gem. With The Gospel of Reincarnation, heals an ally who has been incapacitated from battle. With purifying light, heal an ally's status effect. With Healing Light, heal an ally's health. With Magic Control level 1, magic consumumption goes down by 5%), Power Nullification (With Negate Drain, negate magic absorb and drain effects), Purification (With Purification, chance to annihilate opponents when she attacks. With White Light of Salvation, purifies the surrounding enemies, eliminating them all). Resistance to Curse Manipulation & Empathic Manipulation (Magical Girls are unaffected by a Witches curse, which is noted by Kyubey that their curse causes people to commit suicide and fall to despair[69]), Mind Manipulation (Magical Girls are unaffected by the witch’s kiss, which mind controls people to try and kill themselves[70]), Memory Manipulation (Magical Girls can still remember the magical girls killed in the world of the witches, where no one else remembers their existence[71]), Lifeforce Absorption (Magical Girls are unaffected by Witches ability to drain the life force out of the people who are in despair[72]), Soul Manipulation (They are able to survive having their souls ripped out of their bodies. They are also able to survive having their souls be apart from their bodies[73][74]), Physics Manipulation (Magical Girls are not bound by the laws of thermodynamics[75]), Body Puppetry, and Fusionism (Magical Girls are able to connect with a person’s mind, which makes them snap out of the trance and possession that they were under[76])
Personal Domain & Pocket Reality Manipulation (All witches are able to make labyrinths, in which they are able to summon familiars and is where they are the strongest[77][78]), Curtain Fire (Witches are able to shoot many various attacks within their labryinth[79][80]), Curse Manipulation & Empathic Manipulation (Witches are able to able to spread curses that cause people to commit suicide[81]), Mind Manipulation (Passive; With their curses, witches are able to brain wash people[82]), Invisibility (Witches are completely invisible to humans[83]), Life Absorption (Passive; Witches are able to drain the life force out of the people who are in despair[84]), Duplication (Witches are able to create familiars, who will eventually turn into the same witch as they broke off from[85]), BFR (Type 1; Witches are able to take people inside of their labyrinth forcibly[86]), Immersion and Deconstruction (Witches are able to tear apart a person’s body and suck them into objects like televisions[87])

All previous powers and abilities to a far greater extent, Curtain Fire (Unleashed a massive amount of arrow attacks across all timelines[88]), Law Manipulation (Notes that she will rewrite and destroy all laws[89]. The universe reorders itself based on Madoka's new laws[90]. Homura notes during the Wraith Arc that Madoka has changed the law of the world to where Magical Girls take on the duty of defeating the Wraiths that infest the world), Reality Warping (Was noted to be re-writing the entire universe[91]), Dimensional Travel (Can travel across the many universes to stop witches from transforming[92]), Life Absorption & Empathic Manipulation (Can absorb the magical lifeforce and despair from a witch[93]), Explosion Manipulation & Unlimited Ammo (With Shooting Star, shoot infinite arrows foward, causing a massive explosion). Resistance to Fate Manipulation (Through making her wish, she broke the karmic destiny of fate itself[94]), Law Manipulation (Notes that she will go against any of the laws[95])

All previous powers and abilities to a far greater extent, Enhanced Extrasensory Perception (Sayaka and Madoka are able to see things that other Magical Girls can’t, such as Akuma Homura's existence[96]), Cosmic Intelligence & Cosmic Awareness (As Ultimate Madoka becomes one with the laws of cycles, she can now see everything that ever has or will happen, both the universes that could have been and the universes that might one day be[97]), Transcendence, Singular Existence, & Acausality (Type 5; Madoka's life no longer has a beginning or end, ceasing being a member of the universe, no longer having any proof that she exists, her existence shfiting into a higher plane and becoming nothing more then a concept, where no one can perceive her any longer and likewise she can't interact with anyone else[98]. Through constantly fighting witches forever, she has lost all traces of her individuality[99]), Abstract Existence (Type 1; Madoka's existence shfiting into a higher plane and becoming nothing more then a concept, where no one can perceive her any longer and likewise she can't interact with anyone else[100]. Noted that she continues merely as a concept, a principle that destroys witches[101]), Immortality (Type 2; [https://imgur.com/a/mP5MrQz After destroying her witch, her life has ceased to have either a beginning or end[102]), Omnipresence (In her abstract form; Type 3; Madoka has both the past and future within her, being everywhere and anywhere within the universe[103]), Immutable Will (Has been noted she will keep her hope and it will never change even after she loses all traces of her individuality[104]), Wish Granting Negation (Madoka can negate all wishes made[105]), Existence Erasure (Type 3; Noted that when a magical girls soul gets corrupted, its erased from existence as they become apart of the laws of cycles). Resistance to Power Nullification (Sayaka and Madoka are able to still use their Magical Girl powers despite magical girls not existing in the new universe[106]), Memory Manipulation (Sayaka and Madoka were able to remember past events when nobody else was able to. Even when Homura tried to erase their memories, they were still able to remember some events from the past[107])


Standard Equipment

  • Bow: With her bow, she can fire arrows of energy to attack with and even fire several at once to attack several enemies.
  • Ultimate Madoka's Bow: A far more powerful bow created from her Ultimate Madoka form.

Notable Techniques

*Wish: Throughout the entire series, revealed by various pieces of story. Madoka has made various wishes throughout the timelines:

    • Her original wish, was to save a black cat named Amy from dying.
    • In The Different Story, she wished to save Sayaka Miki.
    • In one of her routes in Portable, she wishes: "If I make a contract with you, can Sayaka's body return to normal?"
    • Her final wish: "I want to erase all witches before they are even born. I will erase every single witch in every universe, past and future with my own hands... I don't care what you call it. All those Magical Girls who held onto their hopes and fought against witches I don't want to see them cry. I want them to stay smiling until the end. If any rule or law stands in my way, I will destroy it. I will rewrite it. That is my prayer. That is my wish. Now grant it, Incubator!"
  • Energy Bow: With her bow, she can fire arrows of energy to attack with and even fire several at once to attack several enemies.
  • Corruption Removal: As both Ultimate Madoka and regular Madoka she can remove the corruptions of Soul Gems either by touching them [Ultimate Madoka] or through transforming into a Magical Girl, the impurities from her Soul Gem magically disappear [regular Madoka].
  • Tiro Duet: A dual attack Madoka performs with Mami in The Rebellion Story. It is a variant of Mami's Tiro Finale.
  • Connect: A technique used by Magical Girls in Magia Record. By joining hands, they are able to fuse their weapons and make a strong variant based on them.

*Magical Staff: Strikes the enemy with her magical staaff.

  • Super Magical Staff: Deals moderate damage to the enemy with her magical staff.
  • Twinkle Staff: Mows down the three squares in front with her magical staff.

*Magical Arrow: Pierce attack one line in front with a magical arrow.

  • Spread Arrow: Shoot forth magical arrows across a vast range.
  • Twinkle Arrow: Deal a moderate amount of piercing damage on line foward with a magical arrow.
  • Starlight Arrow: Deal a huge amount of piercing damage one line foward with a magical arrow.
  • Magical Squall: Send forth a rain of magical arrows down from the heavens.
  • Shooting Star: Shoot inifnite arrows foward, causing a huge explosion.

*Healing Light: Heal an ally's health.

  • Purifying Light: Heal an ally's status effect.
  • The Gospel of Reincarnation: Heal an ally who has been incapacitated from battle.
  • Divine Prayer: Slightly purify an ally's Soul Gem.
  • White Light of Salvation: Purify the surrounding enemies, eliminating them.

*Range Resist Lv 1: Range damage inflicted to her goes down by 15%.

  • Range Resist Lv 2: Range damage inflicted to her goes down by 30%.
  • Range Lv 1: Range damage dealt by her goes up by 10%.
  • Aim Lv 1: Aim Rate goes up by 10%.
  • Autoheal Lv 1: Health and magic auto-recovery increases by 1.5 times.
  • MP Control Lv 1: Magic consumption goes down by 5%.
  • EXP Up: Slight boost to experience gain when she defeats an enemy.
  • Latent Energy: Her damage output increases when her health is low.
  • Negate Drain: Negate magic absorb and drain effects.
  • Purification: Chance to annihilate the opponent when she attacks.


Other

Standard Tactics: Madoka will use strategies of dodging and shooting her energy arrows. | Ultimate Madoka has not been directly shown to fight asides from the one time when she destroyed her own witch, along with going throughout space-time to stop other witches, thus she is a wildcard.

Weaknesses: Magical Girls lose control of their avatars if their soul gems are 100 meters away from their bodies[109]. If a Magical Girl blocks out the pain, their reaction time gets slowed by a bit[110]. The more a magical girl uses magic, the more their soul gem becomes packed with impurities, making them unable to exert the full magic power[111]. If the Magical Girls abuse their Doppels too much, they will fuse to them and become corrupted[112]. Madoka's kindness is both her greatest strength and weakness, refusing to accept the idea of magical girls fighting other magical girls no matter what actions they did, leading to her causing problems such as throwing Sayaka Miki's soul gem on a truck, nearly killing Sayaka if Homura Akemi didn't go to retrieve it. | As Ultimate Madoka, none of these weaknesses truly apply to her anymore, however if her memory is erased she will lose her powers as Ultimate Madoka, reverting back to her regular self[113]. Ultimate Madoka also cannot interact with reality, only being able to enter it when a magical girl becomes a witch to stop them from turning into one[114].

Note: Despite how it may seem, Ultimate Madoka did not erase Madoka from every single universe, only the universe of the anime, as Madoka's still exist in other universes.

Note 2: Madoka never erased the concept of witches, this is a misunderstanding of the scene, what Madoka did was go through every point in space-time and purify Magical Girls before they became witches, bringing them to the law of cycles. Madoka also did not rewrite the entire multiverse, as shown in the previous note, other Madoka's still exist and she only directly affected her universe.

Trivia

  • Madoka owns many stuffed animals in her room.
    • One of Madoka's stuffed animals resembles Lady from Disney's movie "Lady and the Tramp".
  • Madoka loves cats like Homura.
  • According with Urobuchi, he made Junko a strong woman so Madoka would want to emulate her strength and courage.
  • Madoka's last form is known as Ultimate Madoka. Prior to this information, fans called her form "MadoKami", Godoka, or Goddess Madoka.
    • In one of the original artwork designs, it is noted that Madoka is holding a shinai sword or a bow.
  • Wehihihi ♥ "ウェヒヒヒヒ" is an onomatopoeia for Madoka's trademark laughter. You can hear it here. (Or here.)
  • Gen Urobuchi tweeted that he chose October 3 as Madoka's birthday, because that was the day when the ‘Mahou Shoujo Apocalypse Madoka☆Magica Project’ document was created[1].
    • The project was developed under the working title "Mahō Shōjo Mokushiroku Madoka☆Magica", ("Magical Girl Revelation Madoka☆Magica" or "Maho Shojo Apocalypse Madoka☆Magica"), a reference to the Bible.
  • There is a petition to change the official name of the NGC 6357 nebula to the "Madokami nebula".
  • As an adult, she looks similar to her Ultimate Madoka form, though without the pigtails.

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