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A third of the way through the Rebellion film. Homura appears to shoot herself
in the head after being unable to persuade Mami about what's going on. After
the event, it seems that we see the exiting bullet, and we also see blood
around the left side of Homura's face.

If this is the case, why is Homura still alive afterwards? Or did she not
actually manage to shoot herself, or did she (or Mami) perhaps manage to heal
herself afterwards?


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Why is Homura still alive after shooting herself?


It suddenly occurred to me that I probably just wasn't paying enough attention
to the film and that it had been too long since I'd seen the anime. There are
two slightly similar possibilities.

  1. From the anime, we know that as long as the Soul Gem is intact, the magical girl won't die. It's thus possible that Homura only shot herself in the head (without touching her Soul Gem) when she did so, which would have led to her not dying. (Such an interpretation makes sense given that as Shinobu pointed out, Homura was doing this to distract Mami.)

  2. The second possibility is as follows: a bit later than halfway through the film, Homura decides to test whether or not the 100 metre restriction for her Soul Gem still works, after she becomes suspicious of herself. She leaves her Soul Gem at a location and boards a bus that later bursts into flames, but emerges unscathed despite to fact that this was some distance from where the bus was. Given this detail and the fact that she has become a witch at some point, it's possible that this has also affected the destructability of her body.

I'm not sure if I interpreted the events of the second bit correctly, so
please comment if I have gotten something wrong.


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I can only think that the bullet didn't actually hit her head, but only
scratch her. She point the gun on her head not to kill her self, but to
distract Mami. Mami, who is Homura's friend, didn't want Homura to die, tried
to save her. She pull the ribbon when Homura shot her gun and this makes her
miss the shot. I believe she did it on purpose, because after this, Homura
able to cut Mami's ribbon and able to stop time again. Which is of course,
that's what she want to do from the beginning.

> ![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fiQBd.gif)

Before the battle begin, we can see that Homura tried to shoot Mami's ribbon,
but failed to do so, but after she tries to shoot herself in the head. Mami
get distracted and Homura finally able to free herself

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BXrCe.jpg)


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Magical girls in MadoMagi universe are like zombies. It doesn't matter if her
brain gets destroyed as long as her Soul Gem is intact. Homura knows this
fact, but Mami does not and that's why she panics.

As Mami at this point is already a ghost, although she should have known that
things like this would not hurt magical girl, she was brainwashed like the
rest of people inside the barrier and forgot. As for why Mami was killed by
Bebe in earlier scene, it was not because her brain was destroyed, but because
she wore her Soul Gem on her hat and it was eaten along with her head.

So yes, Homura was safe all along.


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