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Originally Posted by rantuyetmai
- What Madoka refused to trade:
- Her life => Mami's life: someone she barely knew, sacrifice is unreasonable.
- What she accepted to trade: - A wish => a cat's life: couldn't bear to see a life snatched in front of her eyes. (TL1)
- Her life => many lives in the city: fought WN to death (TL1, TL2, TL3)
- A wish => Homura's life: couldn't bear to see a person being killed (TL4)
- Her life => Sayaka's life: her best friend
- Her existence => many lives in the city, happiness of all MGs: super beneficial
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But the two parts that I bold contradicts each other doesn't it? If she refused to save Mami's life because she was a stranger, why would she want to protect an entire city filled with people she barely knew?
Either she refused to safe Mami for another reason (like perhaps confidence issue), or she saved the city not for the entire inhabitant but for select few that she does know (which makes her not as selfless as we think she was). Or both.
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Confidence, self-identity and growth were never the point this anime wanted to make, rather they're just a side note.
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No, they are also main points imo. Because to go from "refusing to help a stranger" to "saving the entire MG" requires growth, confidence, and self-identity.