Timelines/Original/Final

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The timeline in which Madoka saves all Magical Girls and creates a new universe.[1] It is depicted in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, its retellings and supplemental material.

Events

  • Homura successfully manages to prevent Kyubey from making any contact with Madoka and Sayaka before she starts attending school.
  • Day 10 - Thursday, the 25th: Madoka has a dream where she saw one of the previous timelines in which Homura was fighting alone against Walpurgisnacht. Homura enrolls in school and while Madoka shows her around, cryptically warns Madoka against leaving her old life behind.
    • After school, Madoka hears Kyubey's plight as he's hunted by Homura at the mall and goes to help him. Homura appears but Sayaka attacks her with a fire extinguisher and they run away. They're attacked separately by Gertrud and her Anthony Familiars but Madoka and Sayaka are saved by Mami. Mami threatens Homura and then takes Madoka and Sayaka to her apartment where she and Kyubey explain Magical Girls to them.
  • Day 11 - Friday, the 26th: Mami takes Madoka and Sayaka along to show off the life of a Magical Girl and kills Gertrud. Mami offers the Grief Seed to Homura, who was spying on them, but she refuses.
    • The following days, Madoka and Sayaka accompany Mami on her patrols.
  • Day 14 - Monday, the 29th: Sayaka visits Kyosuke in the hospital and shares a CD disk with him.
    • That night, Mami encounters an Ulla Familiar while patrolling the city with Madoka and Sayaka. Sayaka asks Mami about wishing for someone else and Mami advises her to be clear on her real intention were she to make such a wish.
  • Day 15 - Tuesday, the 30th: After failing to visit Kyosuke, Madoka and Sayaka discover a Grief Seed at the hospital. Madoka runs to fetch Mami while Sayaka waits to watch the Grief Seed. It hatches before Madoka and Mami get there and Sayaka and Kyubey get taken inside the Labyrinth. Mami and Madoka enter and are followed by Homura. Mami restrains Homura and proceeds to the Witch with Madoka. On the way, Madoka tells Mami she's decided to become a Magical Girl, and Mami confesses her own loneliness over the life of a Magical Girl.
    • When they reach Charlotte, Mami fights carelessly and dies in battle against her, but Homura arrives and kills the Witch herself.
  • Day 16 - Wednesday, the 31st: Kyosuke is grief-stricken due to his injured hand and Sayaka makes a wish with Kyubey to heal his arm. Hitomi is kissed by H.N. Elly and Madoka saves her and several others from killing themselves with chlorine gas. Sayaka arrives and saves them, but then is chastised by Homura, who arrived late.
  • Day 17 - Thursday, the 1st: Madoka accompanies Sayaka while she patrols the city for Witches and Familiars. Sayaka gets in a fight with Kyoko over an Anja Familiar, but Homura arrives and breaks it up. Later, Homura finds Kyoko and makes a deal with her to leave Sayaka alone and to prepare for Walpurgisnacht.
    • That night however, Sayaka is challenged by Kyoko to a duel and Kyubey informs Madoka of it. Madoka and Homura arrive separately to the battle and Madoka throws Sayaka's Soul Gem off the bridge. The girls realize that Soul Gems have the girls' souls in them but Homura retrieves the Soul Gem and revives Sayaka.
    • Sayaka confronts Kyubey and he informs her that she can suppress all the pain in her body.
  • Day 21 - Monday, the 5th: Sayaka doesn't attend school due to her feelings with her new body. Kyoko takes Sayaka to her family's church in an attempt to get her to understand her point of view. Kyoko explains how her wish and family came to ruin, but Sayaka rejects her ideals again.
  • Day 22 - Tuesday, the 6th: Hitomi informs Sayaka that she too likes Kyosuke and prompts her to confess to him in the next 24 hours, or else Hitomi will. With Madoka following her, Sayaka fights Elsa Maria. Kyoko tries to help, but Sayaka rejects her and turns off her pain to kill the Witch herself. Sayaka refuses to use the Grief Seed for herself and yells at Madoka, accusing her of being a terrible friend before running away. As Homura and Kyoko make plans for Walpurgisnacht, Kyubey appears and informs them that Sayaka is in a bad condition.
  • Day 23 - Wednesday, the 7th: Hitomi presumedly confesses to Kyosuke while Sayaka spies on them. She fights more Familiars and Homura finds her and offers her a Grief Seed. Sayaka refuses Homura's help and Homura threatens Sayaka to not make Madoka suffer. They're interrupted by Kyoko who restrains Homura long enough for Sayaka to run away. Homura escapes from Kyoko's grasp but Sayaka has already entered the train where she overhears two sexist men talking bad about their girlfriends. She confronts them and transforms, potentially killing them.
    • Meanwhile, Madoka searches for Sayaka and Kyubey approaches her. As Madoka is about to make a contract for Sayaka to turn back to normal, Homura kills Kyubey and pleads with Madoka. Madoka runs away and another Kyubey shows up to talk to Homura. Kyubey figures out that Homura is from a different timeline and she tells him that she knows what his plans are. Kyoko finally finds Sayaka on the train station and Sayaka laments her decisions and turns into a Witch.
    • Kyoko retrieves Sayaka's body and Homura appears to help her out. They meet Madoka on the railway and reveal that Sayaka turned into a Witch. Homura leaves Kyoko to take care of Sayaka's body and leaves.
    • Madoka is approached by Kyubey in her room, who explains that the sacrifices of Magical Girls are necessary to thwart off entropy. Madoka rejects his comparison of humans to livestock and chastises him for tricking Magical Girls, though Kyubey explains he doesn't understand the concept of tricking and takes his leave.
    • Kyoko takes Sayaka's body to a hotel and uses her own magic to keep it fresh. She questions Kyubey on whether it'd be possible to save Sayaka and he dodges the question, saying that such an achievement wouldn't surprise him.
  • Day 24 - Thursday, the 8th: While Madoka and Hitomi go to school, Kyoko calls to Madoka telepathically to go and save Sayaka. Kyoko explains she plans to have Madoka call out to Oktavia to bring out Sayaka. As the two of them chase down Oktavia's Labyrinth, Homura notices Madoka's absent from school and leaves to find her. Kyoko informs Madoka of Walpurgisnacht's arrival and they enter the Labyrinth but fail to have Sayaka come back. Homura arrives to save and take Madoka outside of the Labyrinth and Kyoko makes her own Soul Gem explode, killing both Oktavia and herself.
    • Homura has a conversation with Kyubey in her room, where he reveals that he's figured out why Madoka's potential to become a Magical Girl is so great. He explains that Homura's time loops all for the sake of Madoka have lead to her carrying the karmic destiny of all those different timelines.
  • Some days later, Sayaka's body is found and a funeral procession is held for her. Madoka confronts Kyubey about his dismissive mindset, and he reveals that his kind lack emotions, so they couldn't utilize magic to thwart off entropy and that if Incubators hadn't come to Earth, humans would likely still be living in the stone age.
  • Madoka goes to Homura's apartment and asks her about Walpurgisnacht. Homura breaks down and tells Madoka that she's from another timeline and that she's repeated the month many times trying to save Madoka.
  • Day 32 - Friday, the 16th: A storm is formed by Walpurgisnacht's approach and everyone in Mitakihara evacuates. Homura fights Walpurgisnacht alone and fails again, this time deciding not to rewind time as she'd only attach more karmic destiny to Madoka.
    • Meanwhile, Madoka worries about Homura and after asking Kyubey, and gaining her mother's approval, goes to find her.
    • Madoka finds and comforts her. She finally makes a contract with Kyubey and wishes to save all Witches in the past and future everywhere. Madoka becomes a Magical Girl and rewrites the universe, creating the Law of Cycles Universe and saving all Magical Girls.

After Madoka made her wish to end Magical Girls' suffering, her Soul Gem was so big that it resembled a shooting star. After the Madoka of the original universe took on enough of the other girls' curses, she became a Witch herself and Kriemhild Gretchen became so powerful that her weight would eventually destroy the entire universe.

Homura was able to witness this destruction due to her time powers, with Kyubey explaining what was happening to her as the universe was being rewritten. Ultimate Madoka, due to her wish encompassing both past and future, as well as her karmic potential, was able to destroy this version of her. Afterwards, the universe was rewritten to a universe where Madoka is erased from existence and she becomes the Law of Cycles.[2] Homura's wish kept a connection to the old universe through her shield, where Madoka is constantly fighting Kriemhild Gretchen.[3]

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