Quote Originally Posted by Rater202 View Post
And as for Rebellion... Jokes aside it took the surprisingly happy ending of the very dark orignal series and ruined it because Hamura would rather watch the world burn than not be with Madoka.
Which is a very valid route for the story to go, particularly with the original series having the selfishness of wishes as a theme. It also helps a lot that it's clearly not intended as the end, and Homura may very well be ruined by her relatively honest selfishness as much as those who were dishonest about it were.

It's also entirely consistent with her character,
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when you've fled to the past a hundred times to save one girl what's dooming one more timeline to you? It doesn't hurt that her powers seem to let her keep her memory whenever anybody hits the reset button, and those powers are also established to be ripple-effect proof...