Kyubey clearly says that they can wish for “any one wish”, and “any miracle” when it the concept was first introduced. “I wish for infinite wishes :trollface:”. These wishes could be uses to solve any and all problems at any point, and only at the end does Madoka just do that to solve everything.
>But there are limits to wishes and they create negative energy or whatever. Kyubey originally said “any one wish”; retconning is an inconsistency and a plot hole.
>You assume that they're not retarded; they're teenage girls and very dumb. The plot having to conveniently assume that normal-intelligence people are in one specific case completely retarded where it's convenient for the plot is still a plot hole.
“Any one wish” is always a plot hole and the planet should be full of omnipotent magical girls that just wished for omnipotence that can realize whatever they want and can create a stone so large that they cannot shove it up their own butthole, but they still can, because they're omnipotent.
All this could have been avoided by Kyubey just saying at the start “the power of the wish is proportional to your potential as magical girls”.
I know this is bait but asking for infinite wishes from Kyubey is like asking for infinite ways to be fucked in the ass.
Camden Reed
And that is a retcon and a plot hole. Originally it was phrased as any one miracle you ask for, no strings attached, and then later on it was suddenly “it releases negative energy and the wish is tied to your magical potential”. The latter wasn't even explicitly stated, but at one point Madoka just asked Kyubey if his wish could turn Sayaka back to normal and Kyubey answers that with Madoka's magical potential that that is trivial as if it was always part of the lore that one's wish is limited to one's magical potential — that was the first time that was referenced and both acted like they always had that understanding. It's infuriating because for the first 9 episodes one's just banging one's head against the screen and asking “why aren't you using your wish to just solve all the problems you're having right now?”.
Jaxon Reyes
>Kyubey originally said “any one wish”; retconning is an inconsistency and a plot hole. Kyubey was never honest on the side effects
You can simply dismiss those issues as Kyubey lying to everyone.
That still leaves the question of why nobody considered asking for unlimited wishes/omnipotence though, and the best explanation I can come up with is that the cast didn’t do it out of respect for Kyubey. Maybe they the considered it would be rude to give him such a difficult task, idk. Either way, I think they should’ve at least cracked a joke about it.
Jeremiah Turner
I wonder how he would've worded if you actually would've asked. I kinda doubt he would just flat out spill the beans so if anything it is endlessly convenient that no one ever asked.
Angel Scott
Plot hole is why Homura can get a OP skill like time-travel
Jaxson Hall
Yes, Kyubey omits information, and not even selectively, but he never lies — he only does so because he doesn't understand what humans find important and in fact does volunteer information, even against his interests, if he does believe that the human would like to know.
But later revealing that it's not “any one wish” is not omitting information but lying, and if it be established that Kyubey lies to further his own agendum, then that opens up even more plot holes of why he wasn't lying about a great many other things — Kyubey has always been portrayed as not lying.
Levi Phillips
>You can simply dismiss those issues as Kyubey lying to everyone. If Kyubey is willing to lie, then it raises even more issues on why he's very often truthful about things against his own agendum; he has been portrayed as omitting information, but never actually lying and when asked he will answer truthfully, even if it go against his own goals.
>and the best explanation I can come up with is that the cast didn’t do it out of respect for Kyubey [...] Either way, I think they should’ve at least cracked a joke about it. Indeed, it's silly that they never raised it, because when Kyubey first explains it, Madoka does ask critical quæstions what the nature of this wish is, and Kyubey just answers that there are no limits and it can be anything. The next quæstion should immediately be “okay, so why does no one just wish for more wishes”? Because they ask a great many critical quæstions in that conversation.
But he has always done so when asked. He even admitted his entire plan to capture Madoka and end the L.o.C. to Homura when Homura asked for it; he could have just lied, but he didn't; he never lies.
Blake Peterson
>why he wasn't lying about a great many other things Like what exactly?
I was always under the impression that Kyubey doesn't lie as much simply because he doesn't need to. Appearing in front of each girl when they're vulnerable always gets him what he wants anyway.
