He had never dreamed there was this much pain in the universe.



Physical pain he could have handled even without his Jedi mental skills; he'd always been tough. At four years old he'd been able to take the worst beating Watto would deliver without so much as making a sound.



Nothing had prepared him for this.



He wanted to rip open his chest with his bare hands and claw out his heart.



"What have I done?" The question started as a low moan but grew to a howl he could no longer lock behind his teeth. "What have I done?"



He knew the answer: he had done his duty.



And now he couldn't imagine why. When I die, Palpatine had said, so calmly, so warmly, so reasonably, my knowledge dies with me...



Everywhere he looked, he saw only the face of the woman he loved beyond love: the woman for whom he channeled through his body all the love that had ever existed in the galaxy. In the universe.



He didn't care what she had done. He didn't care about conspiracies or cabals or secret pacts. Treason meant nothing to him now. She was everything that had ever been loved by anyone and he was watching her die. -Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover

Anakin falls to the Dark Side because he believes the power will save Padmé from death because he can't live without her.

Homura discovers that she's the one who created the labyrinth, and after killing Kyubey multiple times, much to this author's personal glee (the subtitles are in the captions of the YouTube Video), she discovers the incubators have forcibly turned her into a Witch to try to control Madoka.

Madoka, Mami, Sayaka, Bebe, and Kyoko, break into Homura's Labyrinth and try to rescue her Witch form, Homulilly. Madoka manages to reach her.

"I"m sorry! I'm so weak! I JUST WANTED YOU BACK WITH ME!" Homura sobs, "I didn't care what I had to do. I'd commit the worst sins for one more chance...EVEN IF IT TURNED ME INTO A MONSTER! It wouldn't matter, as long as I could have you back."

Together Madoka and Homura use their bows to shoot the glorious oblivion out of all the incubators and blow them to lovely smithereens. But because Homura's Soul Gem was cracked, she has to go to be with Madoka forever as part of the Law of Cycles that Madoka established that instead of turning into Witches they go to be with her.

But then Homura decides, "I'Ve had it I deserve to have Madoka here with me, physically, after everything I've done for her. And then Homura proceeds to steal Madoka's Goddess powers away from her, rewriting the universe and becoming a demon. Because she can't live without Madoka.

Many fans weren't expecting this. Gen Urobuchi actually wanted a happy ending, but the series director, Akiyuki Shinbo wanted the last minute twist.

Homura Akemi gets everything she wanted, she steals Madoka's Goddess powers, gets to keep her best friend with her and she bends Kyubey over her knee and spanks him, figuratively, as now he works for her.

Unfortunately for Anakin Skywalker, his fall from grace ended badly for him, he was too selfish and blamed others for all his mistakes.

You killed her because, finally, when you could have saved her, when you could have gone away with her, when you could have been thinking about her, you were thinking about yourself...

It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith—

Because now your self is all you will ever have. -Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover

And while Darth Vader was able to redeem himself and become Anakin Skywalker again before he died. I don't know if Homura Akemi will redeem herself anytime soon, mainly because Studio Shaft and Gen Urobuchi haven't (as of this article) written a sequel to Madoka Magica Rebellion.

I can only hope for Homura to be redeemed and once more become the selfless Homura Akemi who was willing to suffer the fate of Sisyphus to save her best friend because she loved her.

But not before some mind-blowing action sequences that make my head explode with how awesome and amazing they look.