History Main / SailorSenshiSendUp

Note that this is specifically for characters themed around the senshi -- for other references to the franchise, go to [[ReferencedBy/SailorMoon ReferencedBy.Sailor Moon]]. For another commonly-parodied anime franchise, see {{Phonymon}}.

* ''ComicBook/GhostRider'' villain Skin-Bender [[http://static.squarespace.com/static/52922ecfe4b07735ce1a0386/5298c073e4b008c3d67dc0a3/5298c07be4b008c3d67dc10b/1385742459964/main.php?format=original is visually]] modeled after Sailor Venus. However, thanks to the comic's more realistic art style, her proportions are. . . [[UncannyValley unsettling]], to say the least.

* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Supergirl]]. Since she predates Sailor Moon (not to mention the entire magical girl genre itself), she’s more of an [[UrExample Ur-Example]] of this trope. She’s also more qualified to be a SupermanSubstitute due to being Superman’s DistaffCounterpart, but she also shares a lot more in common with Sailor Moon than most people realize. For starters, they’re both blue-eyed blondes and they both have outfits with a red/blue color palette and a MinidressOfPower. They both have animal sidekicks (although Supergirl’s animal sidekicks Streaky and Comet are more obscure and aren’t seen as often as Sailor Moon’s companions). They’re both portrayed (in most media) as teenage girls who have to deal with normal things that every teenage girl has to face in their life at one point or another, like school or romance, [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld while also struggling with their double lives as superheroines at the same time]]. Supergirl also has some [[CosmicMotifs space themes]] too because she’s an alien who gets her power from stars like our sun, not to mention that a lot of her villains have origins connected to space too. And lastly, the house of El is sometimes portrayed as being the Kryptonian equivalent of royalty or nobility, which would also make Supergirl royalty/nobility too, so she’s also got the "past involving royalty" part covered.

* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Supergirl]]. Since she predates Sailor Moon (not to mention the entire magical girl genre itself) by a few decades, she’s more of an [[UrExample Ur-Example]] of this trope. She’s also more qualified to be a SupermanSubstitute due to being Superman’s DistaffCounterpart, but she also shares a lot more in common with Sailor Moon than most people realize. For starters, they’re both blue-eyed blondes and they both have outfits with a red/blue color palette and a MinidressOfPower. They both have animal sidekicks (although Supergirl’s animal sidekicks Streaky and Comet are more obscure and aren’t seen as often as Sailor Moon’s companions). They’re both portrayed (in most media) as teenage girls who have to deal with normal things that every teenage girl has to face in their life at one point or another, like school or romance, [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld while also struggling with their double lives as superheroines at the same time]]. Supergirl also has some [[CosmicMotifs space themes]] too because she’s an alien who gets her power from stars like our sun, not to mention that a lot of her villains have origins connected to space too. And lastly, the house of El is sometimes portrayed as being the Kryptonian equivalent of royalty or nobility, which would also make Supergirl royalty/nobility too, so she’s also got the "past involving royalty" part covered.

* ''Podcast/KakosIndustries'': Episode 9, "Kawaii", features a HumungousMecha melee as part of the Celebration of Technology. Among the robots included is the "Giant-Ass Schoolgirl That's Kawaii as Fuck, Yo", created by the company Giant-Ass Robots to Kick in Your Face, and which is described as looking "a lot like a gigantic Japanese schoolgirl wearing what [Corin] can only imagine is a somewhat smaller than regulation uniform." It goes up against a robot tentacle monster, the "Ocotobot Plus Two", and ultimately wins the battle by undergoing a transformation sequence that replaces the initial uniform with a new one and summons a "Giant-Ass Sword of Sorrows".

* ''Floating Girl Miyuki'' from ''VideoGame/SuperKnockoffVS'' is [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Sakura Kinomoto]] with elements of Franchise/SailorMoon and a dash of [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Cirno]].

* WesternAnimation/WinxClub is heavily derivative of the Sailor Senshi in its original five girl line-up:

* While the rest of the [[{{Mons}} F.R.I.E.N.D.s]] in ''Jellyfish Eyes'' are generic cute monsters, Miss [=KO2=] is based on a [[https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/contemporary-art-evening-n10149/lot.46.html Sailor Moon inspired sculpture]] that director, Takashi Murakami made in 1996.

** As another blonde supergirl destined to save humanity, Buffy gets compared to Usagi quite a bit. Buffy actually resembles Minako as the tragic CoolLoser forced to lose her friends and is even destined, in some sense, to kill the man she loves, all thanks to her duty.
** Willow intially resembles Usagi's friend Naru before becoming more like Ami. Even before becoming a witch, Willow used her hacking skills to help Buffy, similar to Ami being a technopath. And thanks to the live-action Sailor Moon series, both Ami and Willow have taken turns as a DarkMagicalGirl. There's also some irony in that both Naru and Ami are expies of the same character, Minako's friend Hikaru.
** Cordelia, as the token mean girl who gradually befriends the main group, usually gets compared to Rei Hino. Considering she's a character based on the original main character, Buffy, representing her former life, and even gets to be the heroine of the spin-off, one could argue she has a lot in common with ''Usagi'' of all people.
** Tara and Makoto are both friendless outcasts who go on to become the TeamMom of the group.

* Franchise/BuffyTheVampireSlayer: The original director of the 1992 film, Fran Rubel Kuzui, was a fan of the anime and wanted Buffy to be an Usagi-like heroine. While never directly confirmed, there seems to be a strong influence of the series on the spin-off show.

* ''Floating Girl Miyuki'' from ''VideoGame/SuperKnockoffVS is [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Sakura Kinomoto]] with elements of Franchise/SailorMoon and a dash of [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Cirno]].

** ''An Anime Among Us!'' had AmbiguouslyGay Smothers in drag as a ''Sailor Moon'' parody called The Sugar Plum Fairy.

* ''Literature/WearingTheCape'': Not much attention is drawn to it, but Japan's premiere female hero team appears to be based on ''Sailor Moon'', with {{Sailor Fuku}}s and ThemeNaming, and they spend a significant amount of their time posing for the cameras. However, they are in fact extremely professional government superheroes who are rather high-ranked in the JSDF. An agent Hope speaks to also implies that this archetype is quite common in Japan, often complete with a TalkingAnimal sidekick. And of course the running joke of the book is that Hope and her friends have stumbled headfirst in a lot of SailorSenshi and MagicalGirl tropes, including the TalkingAnimal sidekick.

* A TransformationSequence.

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' has an alternate universe called the Luna Zone where Sally and Amy's counterparts dress like Sailor Scouts and there's a version of Knuckles who dresses like Tuxedo Mask.

* One issue of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'' had Mr Sparkle erasing a manga artist's work including a moose woman called ''Sailor Moose''.

* Princess Cassie of ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor''. She's a princess with moon powers who fights for "love and justice and happiness and the future of the Moon Kingdom!". Her creator, Cassie, is mentioned to like Japanese cartoons, making her a fairly obvious send-up.

* ''ComicBook/GhostRider'' villain Skin-Bender [[http://static.squarespace.com/static/52922ecfe4b07735ce1a0386/5298c073e4b008c3d67dc0a3/5298c07be4b008c3d67dc10b/1385742459964/main.php?format=original is visually]] modeled after Sailor Venus. Not only does she have long blonde hair with a red bow and dressed in a sailor-like outfit, but her slender figure and BigAnimeEyes make her look creepy in the comic book world (mostly because she's drawn with the texture and skin folds that anime/manga never bother with).

* While the rest of the [[{{Mons}} F.R.I.E.N.D.s]] in ''Jellyfish Eyes'' are generic cute monster, Miss [=KO2=] is based on a [[https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/contemporary-art-evening-n10149/lot.46.html Sailor Moon inspired sculpture]] that director, Takashi Murakami made in 1996.

* While the rest of the [[{{Mons}} F.R.I.E.N.D.s]] ''Jellyfish Eyes'' are generic cute monster, Miss [=KO2=] is based on a [[https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/contemporary-art-evening-n10149/lot.46.html Sailor Moon inspired sculpture]] that director, Takashi Murakami made in 1996.

* While the rest of the [[{{Mons}} F.R.I.E.N.D.s]] ''Jellyfish Eyes'' are generic cute monster, Miss KO2 is based on a [[https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/contemporary-art-evening-n10149/lot.46.html Sailor Moon inspired sculpture]] that director, Takashi Murakami made in 1996.