The witch of oblivion, with a vengeful nature. A witch who is said to have originally been a magical girl who came from the end of the galaxy. She has shown herself now in order to forget about all the magical girls from this universe.
Itzli
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"She has shown herself now in order to forget about all the magical girls from this universe." ~ Witch Card
Itzli (ITZLI) is an original witch that appears in Madoka Magica Portable.
Witch
Itzli
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ITZLI Itzli | |
| Type | Oblivion Witch |
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| Nature | Vengeance |
| Appearances | Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable |
忘却の魔女。その性質は復讐。元は銀河の先よりやって来た魔法少女だったといわれる魔女。この宇宙から全ての魔法少女たちを忘れ去るために今、姿を現す。 | |
History
Games
Madoka Magica Portable
Itzli makes her debut in Madoka Magica Portable. She is the final boss of the Oblivious barrier on floor 50. She doesn't have her own familiars and uses the shadow magical girls of Walpurgisnacht. Her barrier is a grassy landscape just like Quitterie's but has the addition of film reels and a deep hole that she emerges from.
Pachinko and Pachislot
SLOT Puella Magi Madoka Magica 2
Itzli makes a reappearance in SLOT Puella Magi Madoka Magica 2 as a boss Homura can fight. In this game, Itzli's labyrinth looks like a movie theatre yet the area where she is battled is the same as its appearance in Portable. The heads of magical girls such as Mami can be seen in the seats when Homura walks through but they never move and Homura never interacts with them. When the battle with Itzli begins, a screen at the back of her labyrinth will rapidly scroll past pictures of various traumatic moments in Homura's life, before settling on the image of Itzli, pulsating in wait. Instead of using Walpurgisnacht's familiars, in this game she uses Adelbert, Gotz, Sebastian and Mathieu. She can even summon both Charlotte and Izabel to block attacks for her. Homura can either kill Itzli with a strong attack or the other magical girls will arrive to help finish Itzli off.
Observations
- Because of the Witch's information, it is suspected that Itzli was a Magical Girl from another planet, an alien Magical Girl.
- Her use of other Witches' Familiars, reels of characters' memories within her barrier, her desire to forget all Magical Girls, and her identity as the Witch of Oblivion ("the fact or condition of not remembering or not being remembered") may indicate that Itzli, and even her Magical Girl form, possesses memory-related powers.
- When Itzli summons Witches and Familiars in SLOT, they have a distorted and washed-out film grain effect to them. When she summons proper Witches, the yellow bulbs poking out of her brain will glow, potentially implying that such a thing takes more energy for the Witch to do.
- Itzli also has the ability to grow large hands from the gelatinous substance surrounding her brain, and she uses them both to backhand her opponents and crush them as attacks.
- In addition, her death animation from Portable is reused as a proper attack as well. Her surrounding mass turns into an arrow and launches far into the sky, before coming down to crush Homura with her brain.
- In SLOT Puella Magi Madoka Magica 2, Kyubey has several lines relating to Itzli:
- Itzli's magic is different from that of any other Witch on Earth. Thanks to this, she was never found before Homura entered her Barrier.
- She is able to watch people through all the clovers in the world (which explains the clovers in her design and Witch's Kiss)
- She has been gathering power while observing Magical Girls from all places and eras.
- She can summon other Witches and Familiars from memories. In SLOT they're shown to look slightly blurry, unlike in Portable.
- Kyubey believes that the reason Itzli has become so strong is thanks to Homura. The exact meaning of this is unclear, though it may be speculated that she has the ability to retain memories/information across Homura's time loops, or was able to extract that information from Homura herself. If so, Itzli would then have been able to repeatedly observe the same events across multiple timelines, as well as gain new information from any differences she otherwise would have never witnessed.
- Homura remarks that Kyubey seems to know a lot about a Witch that's supposedly never been found before. She also comments that though Itzli may keep watch on the outside world, "at least she never meddles with it."
- In Scene 0 Mabayu Aki was introduced, bearing many similarities to Itzli, leading to speculation that she is Itzli's Magical Girl form.
- Mabayu is a cinephile, and she watches movies and goes to the theatre frequently. The entrance to Itzli's Labyrinth is a grand theatre.
- Mabayu's magic and the visuals for Scene 0 heavily feature film reels with characters' memories. Itzli has two film reels in her Labyrinth, replaying Homura's memories.
- In Film 2 Mabayu only observes the Holy Quintet, not intervening until Film 3. Itzli is said to observe people through all the clovers in the world, but never meddles with the outside world.
- The selection page of Scene 0 story and battle modes showed two film reels that have the form of clovers. Additionally, the original Scene 0 in Magia Record was played through light bulbs, and Sayaka's Scene 0 transformation features a movie theatre much like Itzli's.
- Mabayu, because of her wish, retains memories throughout Homura's time loops and is also unaffected by her time stop. While Itzli is affected by Homura's time stop, Kyubey believes that Itzli became so strong because of Homura.
- In Magia Exedra's opening as well as the second Magia attack animations of the Scene 0 units that feature her, Mabayu seems to have the power to summon Magical Girls from the past. Itzli herself summons Witches and Familiars to fight for or defend her.
Trivia
- Itztli means obsidian or an obsidian knife in Classical Nahuatl, the Aztec language. There are several Aztec gods related to obsidian, most of them related to sacrifice and death.
- In Aztec mythology, Itztli (or Itzli) was a god of stone, particularly in the shape of a sacrificial knife. He served the god of night Tezcatlipoca as the god of the Second Hour of the Night. He is also considered one of the variants of Tezcatlipoca, and associated with the goddess of lakes and rivers Chalchiuhtlicue and the goddess of lust and sex Tlazolteotl. Itztli was therefore the god of human sacrifice and stone knives.
- In Aztec mythology, Ītzpāpālōtl or Itzpapálotl ("Obsidian Butterfly") was an Aztec warrior goddess of human sacrifice, rebirth, regeneration, the Earth and the Moon who ruled over Tamoanchan, the paradise of dead children and infants, which is also considered the land where humans were first created and was the leader of the Tzitzimitl (The Angry Ones) star goddesses, protectresses of the feminine and progenitresses of mankind. According to the myth, she came to land with an invisible cape to kill the Mixcoas but died in battle against the primordial god of war Iztac Mixcoatl or Iztac-Mixcóatl (Snake in the White Cloud) and was turned into one of the stars of the Milky Way after her death. Source.
- In Aztec mythology, Itztlacoliuhqui ("Curved Obsidian Blade") was the god of cold, frost, snow, obsidian, justice, sacrifice, sin, chastisement, misery and natural disasters who ruled over Itztepetl (The Obsidian Mountain), the 3rd of the nine levels of Mictlān or Mictlán, the Aztec underworld. He once used to be the god of dawn Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli (Lord of the Dawn), but he was killed and turned into Itztlacoliuhqui by the Sun god Tonatiuh. Tonatiuh, as the 5th sun, demanded obedience and sacrifice from the other gods before he would move. Enraged at his arrogance, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli shot him an obsidian arrow, but Tonatiuh evaded the arrow and threw it back at him, piercing the Lord of Dawn through the head, killing him and turning him into Itztlacoliuhqui.
- Obsidian was a valuable material prior to the use of iron; like flint, it could be fractured to produce sharp blades or arrowheads. Like all glass and some other types of naturally occurring rocks, obsidian breaks with a characteristic conchoidal fracture. It was also polished to create early mirrors such as the ones used in Aztec shamanic rituals.
- In Madoka Magica Portable, Itzli uses shadow magical girls as familiars, identical to those used by Walpurgisnacht. She also uses the Red-nose and Blue-nose familiars of Walpurgisnacht.
- In the Pachinko Slot Madoka Magica 2, it's shown that Itzli has the ability to summon familiars and even witches fought by Homura in the anime.
- Upon her death, she launches into the sky like a rocket and explodes.
Gallery
Madoka Magica Portable
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Itzli's name in Runes from Madoka Magica Portable -
Itzli's roots digging into a hole in the ground -
Itzli's membrane expanding as she summons Walpurgisnacht's familiars -
Itzli charging a special attack. Can either be a fireball or poison rain -
Portable profile -
Itzli's witch kiss from Madoka Magica Portable -
Itzli's Witch's Kiss -
Art from the Inukare gallery
Slot Madoka Magica 2
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Itzli from SLOT Puella Magi Madoka Magica 2 -
Itzli appearing before Homura -
Homura takes down summoned versions of Roberta's familiars in Itzli's labyrinth -
Itzli's rocket attack successfully damaging Homura -
Itzli being defeated -
Itzli summoning Izabel to block gunfire for her. Note the illuminated nodes on Itzli's brain -
Itzli crushing Homura with her giant hand -
Itzli summoning Charlotte to eat a grenade -
After failing to defeat Itzli herself, Homura is aided by the rest of the quintet -
Itzli's name in Runes -
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Itzli from the Magica Quest mode -
Itzli backhands Kyoko Sakura in Magica Quest -
Itzli nearly crushes Sayaka with her palm -
Sayaka attacking Itzli and being thrown out of her labyrinth for it
