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In the original universe covered in the anime and the movies, in Episode 3 /
Movie 1, Mami is killed by the dessert witch Charlotte.

In the Rebellion movie, Charlotte is in Homura's labyrinth as Mami's partner
called Bebe, and we find out that Bebe is actually a magical girl whose
attacks seemed like they are based on Charlotte's attacks.

Is Bebe the magical girl who gave birth to the witch Charlotte?


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Is Bebe the magical girl that gave birth to Charlotte?


Basically, Bebe, Charlotte, and Nagisa Momoe are three different names for the
same entity. Nagisa Momoe was her name in life; Charlotte is her name as a
witch; and Bebe is what the characters call her in Rebellion because they
don't know that her witch-name is Charlotte.

Here's the thing: the only reason we (the viewers) know the names of the
witches (e.g. Charlotte, Oktavia, Kriemhild Gretchen) is because their names
show up in the runes. As far as we know, though, the characters in the show
don't see the runes, and even if they do, they presumably can't read them. So
even though _we_ know that the witch that kills Mami in episode 3 is named
Charlotte, the characters _don't_.

So when Charlotte shows up in Rebellion, the characters need to call her
_something_. In keeping with Mami's fondness for Italian, she seems to have
picked the name "Bebe" (which, with some accents in the right place, means
"baby"). Of course, they eventually find out that when she was a human, her
name was Nagisa Momoe.


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