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One of the typical "magical girl" anime characteristics that Madoka Magica stands out from is weaponry. While most such series feature weapons such as magical staffs and rods (when they show weapons at all), all heavily magic-related, weaponry in Madoka is far more mundane, with the main characters using weapons such as bows, swords and spears.

Homura Akemi is particularly notable for using real-life firearms and explosives to great effect, lacking weapons of her own.

Unfortunately, bunker busters weren't included.

Appearance

Weapons listed by order of appearance in the episode: images do no necessarily follow this order.

Episode 1

Image Name Description
Sayaka Extinguisher.png
Fire extinguisher
A standard fire extinguisher, put to good use by Sayaka.
Anthony Scissors.png
Scissors
Sharp scissors wielded by Gertrud's familiar, Anthony. Running with them in hand is ill-advised.
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Flintlock musket
Single-shot flintlock musket, Mami's primary weapon. Easily summonable in numbers, fired by hand or remotely, and also usable as a melee weapon. Expended bullets can summon strings to ensnare the foe.

Episode 2

Image Name Description
Sayaka Wooden Bat.png
Baseball bat
A classic wooden baseball bat, used by Sayaka.
Mami ribbons 1.png
Magic ribbons
Extending from her clothing or summoned out of the air, used by Mami. They can freely extend or constrict. Here seen used to save a woman, but can be used with offensive purposes, to trap an enemy.
Sayaka Enchanted Bat.png
Enchanted bat
Sayaka's bat, infused with Mami's magic. Mostly for peace of mind, but useful against familiars. Grows spikes when swung and can extend a barrier if planted into the ground.
Mami rifle ep2 1.png
Flintlock musket
Single-shot flintlock musket, Mami's primary weapon. Easily summonable in numbers, fired by hand or remotely, and also usable as a melee weapon. Expended bullets can summon strings to ensnare the foe.
Anthony Scissors 2.png
Scissors
Sharp scissors wielded by Gertrud's familiar, Anthony. Running with them in hand is ill-advised.
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Bullet strings
Strings that grow from expended bullet casings of Mami's muskets, immobilizing enemies.
Finale Cannon.png
"Finale Cannon"
An enormous flintlock cannon, produces a powerful blast. Used by Mami for her finisher, Tiro Finale.

Episode 3

Image Name Description
Finale Cannon 2.png
"Finale Cannon #2"
An alternative weapon for Mami's Tiro Finale. An oversized cannon, though smaller than the one used in the previous episode. Uses a matchlock mechanism: Mami ignites the match cord by winking her right eye.
Sayaka Bat 2.png
Baseball bat
A classic wooden baseball bat, used by Sayaka.
Mami chain ribbons.png
Magic ribbons
Extending from her clothing or summoned out of the air, used by Mami. They can freely extend or constrict. Here seen used to restrain Homura, reinforced with chains. Later used to form a protective cage around Madoka.
Mami muskets ep 3 1.png
Flintlock musket
Single-shot flintlock musket, Mami's primary weapon. Easily summonable in numbers, fired by hand or remotely, and also usable as a melee weapon. Expended bullets can summon strings to ensnare the foe.
File:Mami twin cannons.jpg
Twin cannons
A couple of large cannons, used by Mami in each hand.
Mami bullet strings 2.png
Bullet strings
Strings that grow from expended bullet casings of Mami's muskets, immobilizing enemies.
Finale Cannon 3.png
"Finale Cannon #3"
A monstrous stationary cannon, used for yet another variation of Mami's Tiro Finale.
Pipe Bomb 1.png
Pipe bomb #2
A simple, yet powerful pipe bomb, assembled by hand by Homura from blueprints found on the internet. This is a different model than the most commonly used by Homura, adding a timer to the basic design.

Episode 4

Image Name Description
Sayaka Cutlass 1.png
Cutlass
Sayaka's weapon of choice, a cutlass, a short sword with a curved blade, best used for slashing, usually associated with sailors. Summonable in numbers. Most often used for close quarters, but can also be thrown. Very sharp.

Episode 5

Image Name Description
Sayaka Cutlass 2.png
Cutlass
Sayaka's weapon of choice, a cutlass, a short sword with a curved blade, best used for slashing, usually associated with sailors. Summonable in numbers. Most often used for close quarters, but can also be thrown. Very sharp.
Kyouko Spear 1.png
Modular spear
Kyouko's trademark weapon, a modular spear. While steel hard, it is extremely flexible, and can extend or bend easily. The handle can be broken down into numerous pieces, connected by a chain, allowing her to attack or defend over a wide area. The chain runs along the handle, ending in a heavy ball at the blunt side. The ball's weight is used to easily wrap the chain around foes, restricting them.

Episode 6

Image Name Description
Sayaka Cutlass 3.png
Cutlass
Sayaka's weapon of choice, a cutlass, a short sword with a curved blade, best used for slashing, usually associated with sailors. Summonable in numbers. Most often used for close quarters, but can also be thrown. Very sharp.
Kyouko Spear 2.png
Modular spear
Kyouko's trademark weapon, a modular spear. While steel hard, it is extremely flexible, and can extend or bend easily. The handle can be broken down into numerous pieces, connected by a chain, allowing her to attack or defend over a wide area. The chain runs along the handle, ending in a heavy ball at the blunt side. The ball's weight is used to easily wrap the chain around foes, restricting them.

Episode 7

Image Name Description
Kyouko Spear 3.png
Modular spear
Kyouko's trademark weapon, a modular spear. While steel hard, it is extremely flexible, and can extend or bend easily. The handle can be broken down into numerous pieces, connected by a chain, allowing her to attack or defend over a wide area. The chain runs along the handle, ending in a heavy ball at the blunt side. The ball's weight is used to easily wrap the chain around foes, restricting them.
Sayaka Cutlass 4.png
Cutlass
Sayaka's weapon of choice, a cutlass, a short sword with a curved blade, best used for slashing, usually associated with sailors. Summonable in numbers. Most often used for close quarters, but can also be thrown. Very sharp.

Episode 8

Image Name Description
Kyouko Spear 4.png
Modular spear
Kyouko's trademark weapon, a modular spear. While steel hard, it is extremely flexible, and can extend or bend easily. The handle can be broken down into numerous pieces, connected by a chain, allowing her to attack or defend over a wide area. The chain runs along the handle, ending in a heavy ball at the blunt side. The ball's weight is used to easily wrap the chain around foes, restricting them.
Sayaka Cutlass 5.png
Cutlass
Sayaka's weapon of choice, a cutlass, a short sword with a curved blade, best used for slashing, usually associated with sailors. Summonable in numbers. Most often used for close quarters, but can also be thrown. Very sharp.
Kyouko impulse spear.png
"Impulse" spear
A spear summoned by Kyouko directly from her Soul Gem, without the need to transform. Very quick to summon, and therefore useful in emergencies. Flexible like her regular spear, but other properties are unknown.
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M26 grenade
A post-WW2 American fragmentation grenade, affectionately known as the "lemon grenade", due to its shape. However, the one used by Homura is apparently a flashbang. Likely stolen from a US base in Japan.
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Beretta 92FS
A 9mm, single shot pistol from the famous Italian manufacturer, Beretta. Designed for sporting and law enforcement, it is light and accurate, making it a popular handgun worldwide.

With it, Homura is pinpoint accurate: she connected exactly fifteen shots, a standard full magazine of the Beretta M9, a US military variant. As she empties the magazine, it lead to speculation that it might have been stolen from a US base in Japan.

Episode 9

Image Name Description
Kyouko Spear 5.png
Modular spear
Kyouko's trademark weapon, a modular spear. While steel hard, it is extremely flexible, and can extend or bend easily. The handle can be broken down into numerous pieces, connected by a chain, allowing her to attack or defend over a wide area. The chain runs along the handle, ending in a heavy ball at the blunt side. The ball's weight is used to easily wrap the chain around foes, restricting them.
Stun Grenade.png
M84 stun grenade
A non-lethal grenade, the current standard issue of the US Army. Upon detonation, it emits an intensely loud "bang" over 170dB and blinding flash of more than one million candela and within 1.5 meters, sufficient to cause immediate (but temporary) flash blindness, deafness, tinnitus, and inner ear disturbance. The one used by Homura apparently functions as an offensive explosive as opposed to a stunning weapon.
Oktavia Sword 1.png
Oktavia's cutlass
A very large sword wielded by Oktavia von Seckendorff. The blade is similar to Sayaka's cutlass, but the handle has a much different design, without the handguard.
Oktavia ornamental swords.png
Ornamental swords
Four swords of classical design, attached to Oktavia's back, with her coat of arms hanging from them. Mostly for ornamental purposes.
Oktavia Wheels 1.png
Wheels of fate
Large wooden carriage wheels, summoned in large numbers by Oktavia von Seckendorff. Capable of fast movement, they carry sufficient force to send a person flying away.
Kyouko Anaconda Spear.png
"Scorpion spear"
A gigantic, scorpion tail-like spear summoned by Kyouko as a last resort. Appears to possess the same properties as her regular spear, but the amount of effort needed to summon it is life-threatening.

Episode 10

Image Name Description
Mami musket ep 10.png
Flintlock musket
Single-shot flintlock musket, Mami's primary weapon. Easily summonable in numbers, fired by hand or remotely, and also usable as a melee weapon. Expended bullets can summon strings to ensnare the foe.
Rose bow 2.png
Rose branch bow
A bow resembling a rose branch (detail of the design), Madoka's trusted weapon. Fires magical arrows that home in on the foe, and is also capable of firing multiple arrows in one shot, as seen in the picture.
Mami bullet strings 3.png
Bullet strings
Strings that grow from expended bullet casings of Mami's muskets, immobilizing enemies.
Golf club.png
Golf driver
A driver, also known as wood (though not necessarily made of wood), a golf club for long distance shots, used to move the ball closer to the green. Given it's size, it's most likely a 1-wood, the club with the largest range in any golfer's bag, generally with a 460cc head. This is the largest head size for a golf club, thus making it the most adequate for literal clubbing.
Ice skates.png
Ice skates
Ice skates worn by Patricia's familiar, Mathieu. The blades are quite sharp, making them very dangerous.
Mami ribbons ep 10.png
Magic ribbons
Extending from her clothing or summoned out of the air, used by Mami. They can freely extend or constrict.
Pipe bomb 2.png
Pipe bomb
A simple, yet powerful pipe bomb, assembled by hand by Homura from blueprints found on the internet. Activated by a large button at the top.
Locker room katana cropped.png
Katana
A katana found at a Shafuto Industries. Suspected to be a message from the producers, Studio Shaft, to possible licensers outside of Japan: a fellow animation studio, Studio Ghibli, is known to, when Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein suggested editing Princess Mononoke to make it more marketable, have sent him an authentic katana with a simple message: "No cuts".
Homura desert eagle.png
Desert Eagle Mark XIX
A very large caliber handgun, chambered for .50AE. Risen to fame by it's use in roughly 500 motion pictures and TV films, most notably as The Agents' weapon in the Matrix triology. It is very powerful, on par with most magnum revolvers, but possesses little value on the battlefield: it is very unwieldy, being exceedingly large and heavy, inaccurate, and it's magazine hold only seven rounds, due to their large size. Furthermore, it produces a monstrous recoil, making it very difficult to control. Homura's switch from to the Beretta 92 can be seen as a sign of maturity and weapon expertise.
Stolen from Shafuto Industries.
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Remington Model 870
A popular pump-action shotgun. Introduced in 1955 as a modern, streamlined, rugged, reliable, and relatively inexpensive shotgun, it has sold over ten million pieces by 2009, making it the best-selling shotgun in history. It's popularity is proven by it's use in military and law enforcement in a dozen countries.
Stolen from Shafuto Industries.
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9mm ammunition
A box of 9x19mm Parabellum ammo, containing 50 bullets. The NATO standard for handguns and submachine guns, it is probably the most common ammunition in the world.
Stolen from Shafuto Industries. Note that fact that neither weapon stolen from the locker is chambered for this round: the only weapon in the series that uses it is the Beretta 92, which Homura likely did not possess yet.
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Oktavia's cutlass
A very large sword wielded by Oktavia von Seckendorff. The blade is similar to Sayaka's cutlass, but the handle has a much different design, without the handguard. Dual wielded by Oktavia, in this timeline.
Oktavia swords 3 crop 3.png
Ornamental swords
Four swords of classical design, attached to Oktavia's back, with her coat of arms hanging from them. Mostly for ornamental purposes.
Oktavia wheels 2.png
Wheels of fate
Large wooden carriage wheels, summoned in large numbers by Oktavia von Seckendorff. Capable of fast movement, they carry sufficient force to send a person flying away.
Kyouko spear 6.png
Modular spear
Kyouko's trademark weapon, a modular spear. While steel hard, it is extremely flexible, and can extend or bend easily. The handle can be broken down into numerous pieces, connected by a chain, allowing her to attack or defend over a wide area. The chain runs along the handle, ending in a heavy ball at the blunt side. The ball's weight is used to easily wrap the chain around foes, restricting them.
Homura armory.png
Howa Type 89
A Japanese assault rifle, chambered for 5.56x45mm NATO, the most common assault rifle ammo. Introduced in 1989 as the standard-issue rifle of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, it is solely used by Japan due to its strict anti-military hardware export laws. It's known affectively as "Buddy".
Stolen from a JSDF base.
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FN Minimi
A Belgium 5.56mm light machine gun developed by the venerable manufacturer FN Herstal. Best known by the designation for it's American variety, the M249 light machine gun (previously known as Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW)), it is in widespread use across the western world, and has been present in nearly every conflict since it's inception. It provides infantry squads with the heavy volume of fire of a machine gun combined with accuracy and portability approaching that of a rifle, while also useful as a mounted weapon both in structures and in vehicles. Homura's particular weapon appears to be a paratrooper version with a 200 round drum.
Stolen from a JSDF base.
Homura M26 2.png
M26 grenade
A post-WW2 American fragmentation grenade, affectionately known as the "lemon grenade", due to its shape. However, the one used by Homura against Roberta appears to be a high explosive (HE) version, due to it's large blast. Likely stolen from a US base in Japan.

Interestingly, the homonymous Roberta from Black Lagoon is known to use exactly this model, being able to deploy several of them from her skirt.

Episode 11

Image Name Description
RPG-7
85-mm, portable, shoulder-launched, anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
AT-4
84-mm unguided, portable, single-shot recoilless smoothbore weapon.

Episode 12

Image Name Description

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