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Originally Posted by recover
STRONG OVERANALYZING of overly emotional mami
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Although it is interesting how it's possible to do a reasonable analysis of Mami's behavior in that scene, the reasons Mami was the one to have a breakdown were quite straightforward from a storywriting point of view:
With Sayaka disposed of, and Madoka and Homura reserved for Walpurgis Night, only Mami and Kyoko were "expendable" characters. Yet, why choose Mami as the trigger man (er, girl) instead of Kyoko? Because Mami had binds and a ranged attack. If Kyoko attacked Mami first, she may or may not have succeeded, but she definitely could have been stopped without killing her. Both characters had to be removed before Walpurgis Night, and this was the clearest way to do it.
Yet, as I said at the start, they justified the killings by letting us know so much about the characters that we can accept that they would act this way in that situation. Rather than, "there was no other way to do it" that you find in other stories with similiar situations.