Magic/Personal Abilities/Non-Humans

Incubators

Kyubey

• Telepathic Communication: Kyubey communicates with potential and contracted Magical Girls through telepathy, as opposed to verbally. He is able to use himself as a medium through which non-contracted girls can communicate to each other or contracted Magical Girls.
• Vision Sharing: Kyubey can share visions of sights and sounds with potential and contracted Magical Girls.
• Elective Invisibility: Kyubey is invisible to everyone except for Magical Girls and girls with sufficient magical potential. Normal humans do not notice his presence at all, just as he does not seem able to communicate with them.
• Teleportation: Kyubey has been evidenced to cross long distances in impossibly short time spans, the method for which is yet unknown, but can be assumed to be teleportation. In episode 10, he also fades into reality above Homura, which may be the visible manifestation of him teleporting.
• Wish Granting: Kyubey can grant wishes to those with magical potential, no matter how wild and unrealistic they may be. However, this process is limited by the karmic potential of a contractee, and insufficient karmic power may result in negative or unintended side-effects, such as lack of power control or a wish that cannot be properly or completely executed. Kyubey himself has no control over how a wish is interpreted, and seems to be unable to refuse or revoke a wish once a proper one has been made. However, there have been shown to be some exceptions to what he can grant, unlimited by a girl's karmic potential, such as if a wish is for something that he does not understand (for example, wishing to visit a fictional location he isn't familiar with).
• Soul Gem Creation: Kyubey is capable of creating a small egg-shaped gemstone called a soul gem for each Magical Girl. He does this by pulling the contractee's soul out of their body and forming it into their soul gem. As such, this results in temporary pain on the contractee while the contract is made. This makes the newly formed Magical Girl capable of transforming and using magic, as well as increased agility, strength and pain threshold, at the expense of the soul being separate from the body and thus controlling it externally, akin to a puppet.
• Soul Gem Stimulation: As referenced in episode 7, Kyubey can create impulses of certain feelings on a soul gem simply by touching it. In Sayaka's case, he emulates a pike (probably mimicking Kyoko's) impaling Sayaka's stomach.
• Energy Conversion/Collection: Kyubey is able to collect emotional energy from witch transformations, and Doppel emergences. As explained in Magia Record, Kyubey does not need to be in proximity to a witch formation or the summoning of a Doppel to obtain its energy, as he collects it even while he cannot enter Kamihama City. This implies that the collection of this emotional energy is an inherent part of either process that he merely facilitates, or that this energy is naturally released into the universe when it is created. In Wraith timelines, he collects it by magical girls dropping grief cubes into a hatch-like "mouth" on his red oval on his back. How he is able to transport this energy also remains a mystery.
• Grief Seed Consumption: Said to be one of Kyubey's "many duties", he can open a hole in the teardrop-like marking on his back to consume grief seeds. This permanently destroys the grief seed, preventing the witch within it from regenerating when it accumulates enough taint from a soul gem it purifies. It is unclear if he only does this to prevent witches from reappearing, and thus keeping their population manageable, or if it is part of his process of collecting emotional energy, given he already collects it when soul gems become grief seeds.
• Replication: Kyubeys, or Incubators, are an artificially-created hive-mind/collective that span the universe, looking for people to turn into Magical Girls so as to collect emotional energy and combat entropy. Multiple individuals of his kind, referred to as "terminals", exist simultaneously, and can act, think, and talk independently of each other, but they all retain the same knowledge and memories. Typically, only one Kyubey terminal is primarily active in a given territory at any time, though several are either kept in reserve nearby or are somehow instantly deployed to replace one another if they are killed by some means. So as to save energy, they will consume the remains of their fallen selves when possible.
• Isolation Field: Kyubey's able to create an isolation field similar to a barrier, but only chooses to do so in extreme circumstances, usually to uphold, or sometimes restore the magical girl system. The isolation field can work as a method to trap others, such as when he reclaimed the Doppel System, and to isolate them from outside presences. This was also done with Homura's soul gem, which resulted in it not turning into a grief seed, breaking, or being taken by the Law of Cycles, instead creating a labyrinth within the gem. He was even able to make adjustments to let the victims which Homura invited to be absorbed in the world inside her soul gem, while not letting them leave.
• Cell Alteration: Kyubey can alter the bodies, including the brains, of beings who have incubator cells within them and make it possible for them to do things they otherwise couldn't.
• Observation and Calculations: Kyubey can keep track and measure many criteria through his observations, and can thus make attempts to follow the alternative that benefits him the most, or directly manipulate the situation. In Kyubey's own words: "If we can observe it, then we can interfere with it. And if we can interfere with it, we can control it." Because this is merely a calculation, it is not a true "sight into the future", as he's merely calculating statistics which he can keep track of. This can apply to many things, such as calculating time, speed, momentum, etc.

Juubey

• Grief Seed Consumption: As Kyubey consumes used grief seeds through the hatch on his back, Juubey does the same through the circle on his forehead. While Kyubey’s acts like a simple receptacle, Juubey’s is more akin to an actual mouth as it can be seen clenching just like one’s mouth does while eating and munching sounds can be heard. When his body was destroyed, remnants of consumed grief seeds were found within his body, implying that Incubators transport energy by directly consuming and releasing it.
• Soul Gem Purification: Unlike Kyubey, Juubey has the ability to clean and remove the grief from soul gems, allowing the girls relief from having to compete with others for grief seeds. In chapter 21, it was revealed that Juubey was imperfect in this ability and that cleaning the gems would only be effective if he had consumed a grief seed beforehand. Instead, he was only able to polish the surface of the gem so it appeared to be clean while the grief accumulated inside.
• Telepathic Communication, Invisibility, and Teleportation: It is assumed that Juubey had these abilities as well due to being an Incubator. However, unlike Kyubey or witches, Juubey is visible in photos.
• Emotions: Unlike other Incubators, Juubey has the capacity to feel emotions and even sees the Pleiades Saints as his friends.

Lil' Kyubey

• Teleportation: Lil' Kyubey's only remaining power is teleportation, though it's not often seen outside of Kamihama. The method of teleportation has varied, sometimes fading in from shadows, liquifying into water, or even through a flash of energy.
• Soul and Concept Container: His body was a viable container for Ui's soul and kept it from falling apart after Touka transformed it, or after Nemu's Uwasa transferred it. However, this soul transplant caused all traces and memories of her to be wiped from reality for everyone except Ui and Nemu, the person who made the transplant. In the occasion where Nemu's Uwasa completed the transfer instead, nobody but Ui herself remembered her own existence. It was able to bring back some of the memories of Ui to Iroha after making direct contact with her and in the anime, Nemu's also able to trap Iroha and her body inside of the Little Kyubey without erasing her. Ui was able to set her free afterwards, however this action caused it to suffer damages, as it had a ghostly form and started to fall apart.
• Conduit: Lil' Kyubey's able to replace Ui as the core of Embryo Eve and the Doppel Barrier, as well as be a conduit for Iroha, Ui and the Kimochi stones to gain access to it and fuse into Infinite Iroha.

Law of Cycles Kyuubey

• Telepathic Communication, Invisibility, and Teleportation: The Pink Kyubey has all of the normal powers of the Incubators, such as only being visible to Magical Girls, telepathy, and teleporting from one place to another.
• Interdimensional Terminal: The purpose of the Pink Kyubey is to work as a monitor, or communication terminal, between the Law of Cycles and her emissaries. Anomalous timelines, or barriers can halt, or make communication difficult between them.

A-Q

• TBD

Other Entities

Homo magica

• Asexual Reproduction: Similar to Greek myths, the Homo magica can create new Homo magica by building with clay from planets.
• Cuteness: Theorized by Kyubey, the Homo magica derive their power from their cuteness. By being cuter, they become more powerful and their cuteness causes some people to become overwhelmed to the point where they pass out.
• Magic: The Homo magica can use various forms of magic.
• Strength: The Homo magica are shown to have superhuman strength.

Name

• Transformation: Name can transform into other magical girls and travel through their memories.

Nighthawk

• Understanding: Despite being unable to speak human language, Nighthawk can understand it.

See Also

• Kazumi
• Kanna Hijiri