Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable/Characters

This page is only for character and character gameplay tropes that appear exclusively in Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable. See here for character tropes from the original series.

Madoka Kaname
""It's like I met her in a dream...""


 * Adaptational Badass: Of sorts; we see more of her in action than we do in the anime.
 * Chronic Hero Syndrome: Leaps to the aid of anyone in trouble, be it her friends, a new transfer student she's never met before, or Amy the cat. Prior to becoming a magical girl, however, she doesn't have the self-confidence to follow through on this all the time.
 * In Mami's route, Madoka can even wind up coming on too strong and making Homura uncomfortable with all the attention she's getting.
 * Combat Medic: She was known as The Archer, but a third of her active skills are healing techniques. She can even heal murky Soul Gems!
 * Crutch Character: Employed rather interestingly. As long as she's been properly raised, Madoka can eat Walpurgis Night and its familiars for breakfast. But because the story eventually progresses to Homura's wanting to keep her from contracting, Madoka isn't an available party member in the later routes, where the Walpurgis battle actually matters.
 * The Messiah: Retains her ability to make friends with and see the best in everyone.
 * Plucky Girl: Especially in early timelines, where she quickly bounces back from revelations of the true nature of magical girls and refuses to give in to despair.
 * Simple Staff: Her bow can turn into this.

Homura Akemi
""Fate can be changed.""


 * A Taste of Power: In Madoka's (tutorial) route that follows the anime closely, Homura is at level 25 at the start of Charlotte's fight. Compared to Mami's level 10 (and she can be considered a veteran) and Sayaka's level 1, Fridge Brilliance plays here.
 * Alternate Character Interpretation: In-Universe. Depending entirely on the player's choices, in Homura's own route she can be anything from The Paragon devoted to protecting the well-being of the whole cast to her anime characterization of only caring about Madoka.
 * Paragon Homura is taken to the point of Character Exaggeration in the bonus route, where she runs around being the other girls' extremely aggressive fairy godmother.
 * Combat Pragmatist: Unlike Kyouko, she actually follows through on the philosophy that anything less than a witch isn't worth chasing. In Madoka's route, an optional scene shows her abandoning a familiar's victim to die.
 * Despair Event Horizon:
 * Didn't Think This Through:
 * Flower Motifs: A Red Spider Lily.
 * Specifically, a Red Spider Lily means
 * Hidden Depths: We all know that this girl is more than she seems, but this game reveals more of her off-screen actions like how she  when she's shooting Kyubey in Episode 1, , or even offering Kyoko food and shelter.
 * Kleptomaniac Hero: Actual skill in-game.
 * Meaningful Rename:
 * Punny Name: The higan in higanbana (spider lily) can also be construed as a Buddhist euphemism for nirvana, which has a matching term for samsara.
 * Time Master: Not only stopping time, Homura is also capable of slowing down enemies and speeding up herself.
 * Socially Awkward Hero: From social anxiety in early timelines, and then out of apathy and Brutal Honesty in later ones.
 * Stuff Blowing Up: Of course, it's Homura we're talking about.
 * Stuff Blowing Up: Of course, it's Homura we're talking about.

Sayaka Miki
""The miracle I wished for...""


 * Always Someone Better: She realizes that she's the weakest girl in the Mitakihara group, which really does wonders to her self-esteem. Kyubey says that she spends ten times the amount of magic in her familiar hunting than Kyouko's brutal frustration-fending massacre of the same familiars.
 * And I Must Scream:
 * Butt Monkey: All the girls have at least one opportunity to become witches somewhere or other in the story, but Sayaka has more than anyone else.
 * Cat Fight: With Hitomi in the bonus route. More of a screaming match, to be precise, but Hitomi still slaps Sayaka.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl: In her own route, she's not at all pleased to have to share Madoka with Mami and Homura, especially since Madoka has to go on witch patrol and can't hang out with her as much.
 * Combat Medic
 * Counter Attack: Only if the enemies are attacking in close range.
 * Hey, You: In most routes, she refuses to call Homura anything other than "Transfer Student".
 * Musical Theme Naming: Many of her skills' names.
 * Oblivious to Love: Though she's usually the victim of this from Kyousuke, in the Tea Party ending,.
 * Power Born of Madness: Can inflict the madness status on herself with Rhapsody.
 * Throw the Dog a Bone: In the bonus route,.
 * Throw the Dog a Bone: In the bonus route,.

Mami Tomoe
""If you'll be by my side...""


 * Barrier Warrior
 * Butt Monkey:.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl / Green-Eyed Monster: In her own route, she becomes insecure in her friendship with Madoka and resentful towards Homura when the latter enters the picture. Depending on the player, Mami can either discuss her feelings with Madoka or.
 * Driven to Suicide:
 * Taking the Bullet:
 * Idol Singer: Bonus route.
 * Meaningful Rename:
 * Survivor Guilt: She really takes the fact that she could have saved her parents along with herself, but didn't, hard. When she runs away and lets a child get eaten by Gisela, the guilt becomes twofold.
 * Team Mom: Particularly in Sayaka's route, where she has to temporarily play peacekeeper between Sayaka and Madoka, then between Sayaka and Kyouko.
 * Whip It Good: Mami's weapon is actually her ribbons, used in this manner. But until her encounter with Gisela, she decides that she can't fight in close range, making her muskets from the ribbons as her primary weapon.
 * Whip It Good: Mami's weapon is actually her ribbons, used in this manner. But until her encounter with Gisela, she decides that she can't fight in close range, making her muskets from the ribbons as her primary weapon.

Kyouko Sakura
""She's the only hope I had left.""


 * Barrier Warrior
 * Due to the Dead:  It's very simple, but the effect is powerful.
 * Fire-Forged Friends: With Sayaka in Sayaka's route, eventually,.
 * Friend to All Children: Surprisingly, or unsurprisingly.
 * Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: To the point of When All You Have Is a Hammer.
 * Kleptomaniac Hero: Just like Homura, an actual skill in-game.
 * Knight in Sour Armor: Beats up bullies, gives Tatsuya candy, rescues other magical girls, and grumbles about it the entire time.
 * Master of Illusion
 * Meaningful Rename:
 * Pater Familicide: And this time we'll witness it from Kyoko's eyes.
 * Pooled Funds: There's a scene of her sitting on top of countless Grief Seeds in her church like some kind of mafia boss.
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
 * Walking the Earth:
 * Walking the Earth:

Kyubey

 * Blue and Orange Morality
 * Manipulative Bastard: A main game mechanic of the Visual Novel part of the game is for Kyubey to manipulate the girls' emotion depending on his choices.
 * Hoist by His Own Petard: All of Kyubey's actions are geared towards his energy collection goals, but because he doesn't understand how emotions work, his dialogue choices can serve to calm the girls down instead and.

Witches

 * All There in the Manual: Albertine, a witch first mentioned on the anime's website, is revealed in the game. Gisela might also count, given that she is only seen for about two seconds in the anime during a flashback sequence.
 * Canon Foreigner: The game has several original witches, such as Candeloro and Ophelia  There's a also a witch that has Kyubey's head and uses giant stuffed Kyubeys as familiars, and
 * Creepy Doll: Albertine. Candeloro's familiars  may also count.
 * Doppleganger Attack: Ophelia.
 * Flaming Hair: Of sorts -- Ophelia's head is literally a lit candle.
 * Fun Size: Candeloro is the tiniest witch yet, even smaller than Charlotte--she's little enough to fit into.
 * Visual Pun: That's small enough to be
 * Headless Horseman: Ophelia evokes this.
 * Meaningful Name: Ophelia is a reference to Hamlet. Candeloro is apparently named after Candlemas, which may be a Stealth Pun - it's on Groundhog Day.
 * Mook Maker: The Witches in general are this, but special mention to Charlotte's first form that has no other attack except for spawning unlimited Pyotr until her lifebar is drained.
 * Transforming Mecha: Gisela can transform into a motorcycle-like form.
 * Youkai: Ophelia's familiars are based on the rokurokubi.