

In _Puella Magi Madoka Magica_ , if someone wishes something to Kyubey, they
will become a magical girl (and in the end, a witch), but the wish can be
anything like money, power, godlike powers. However, what would happen if they
wish to **_not** become a magical girl_ instead? (Perhaps only Madoka knows)

I was thinking if Kyubey would explode or refuse the wish, but what if he
didn't refuse?


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What if someone wishes to not become a magical girl in Madoka Magica?


Kyubey gets these girls to sign a _contract_. This contract includes the
provision that they become magical girls and fight witches (with the hidden
eventuality that they will become witches themselves). Granting the wish is
Kyubey's part of the contract. If someone does not agree to the contract in
full, including the part about becoming a magical girl, why would Kyubey grant
them a wish? In other words, not agreeing to become a magical girl in any way
constitutes not agreeing to the terms, refusing the contract.

You must also remember that Kyubey intentionally offers the contract at
specific moments when his target is most likely not to refuse. This is
exemplified in Mami's case, explained in the [Puella Magi
Wiki](https://wiki.puella-magi.net/Mami_Tomoe#Mami_in_Farewell_Story):

> Mami made her wish after she was in a car accident with her parents. She was
> most likely very badly wounded, as her parents died on the scene, and Mami
> only survived due to making a wish with Kyubey, who appeared at just that
> moment, leaving Mami little time to consider her wish.

It's unlikely that Kuybey would approach someone at a time when they would
either refuse to sign the contract, or who would in any other way _not_ use
the opportunity to wish for something important to them.


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**Kyubey is incapable of refusing a wish*** , so if someone wishes to not
become a magical girl then they won't. They'd deem this a waste of a perfectly
good wish and would attempt to dissuade people from using it, since it would
basically do nothing -- including not progressing the fight against entropy --
but if someone managed to wish "I want to not become a magical girl," then
they would not become a magical girl and nothing would happen.

That said, the act of granting the wish seems to be what creates the Soul Gem
(note Kyubey's wording: "What is the wish that will make your Soul Gem shine,"
(as the gem is forming) "Your wish has prevailed against entropy"). Therefore,
it is possible that this wish could be used to create a "blank" gem, with no
one inside it.

* _This isn't actually stated anywhere, but there's no other explanation, seeing as three distinct times across the franchise a wish has been granted that is, or seemed at the time to be, actively detrimental to Kyubey's goals (Madoka Kaname, Isabeau de Baviere, and Touka Satomi/Nemu Hiiragi/Ui Tamaki)._


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