In Homura's final epiphany, Madoka steps on their twin chairs and takes the position of Christ in the cross (i.e. the god that made the ultimate selfsacrifice of taking the burden of everyone's faults), only to fall comically and dissolve into nothing as a symbol of the uselessness of it all. At the sight of this, Homura fully realizes her own failure as her guardian, curses herself and falls into despair.