History SailorMoon / TropesOne

* CrossOver: See {{Rule 34}}. Cross with DragonBall Z.

* DistressedDude: Poor, poor Tuxedo Mask. Does not help, that female [[BigBad BigBads]] [[spoiler: except anime Galaxia]] seem to be fixated on turning him into their lapdog. [[spoiler: Manga Galaxia forces him to kiss her boots, then kills him again. Just to mess with Usagi.]]

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Looms as a threat every damn arc/season. Actually happens a few times. The last season involved this for the ''entire Milky Way galaxy''. After the final battle, only Sailor Moon is left alive in both versions. (In the anime, the Starlights and Galaxia also survive; in the manga, Chibimoon and the Sailor Quartetto come from the future and also live.) [[IGotBetter The entire galaxy gets better, though.]]

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:The cats]] in the manga, [[spoiler:Sailor Venus]] in the anime. [[IGotBetter They get better]].

** [[TeamPet Team Pets]]: Luna, then also Artemis, then also Diana
*** The series arguably subverts this. Venus is TheAce and is initially thought to be TheHero, but then SailorMoon is revealed to be both TheChick and the main hero, as well as TheMessiah.

* ScienceMarchesOn: Sailor Pluto's [[ByThePowerOfGreySkull transformation call]] sounds pretty silly these days.
* SealedEvilInACan: Multiple examples

* AGodAmI: Happens a lot, at least once in every season. Beryl, Metalia, Wiseman, Mistress 9, Nehellenia, and Galaxia all increase their power to god status. Of course, they each get defeated by the Sailor Senshi. Subverted in that (in the anime) Esmeraude ''tried'' to become a godlike queen, using a crown that Wiseman gave her. Had she realized Wiseman deceitfully rendered the crown to turn the wearer into a mighty dragon, she probably wouldn't have taken it.

* GrandFinale: Notably, the conclusion of the 1st arc was supposed to be this as the latter four seasons/arcs were not initially intended. The anime for example ends Season 1 with a [[spoiler:KillEmAll ending. Obviously everyone [[IGotBetter got better]] for Season 2.]]

* HoYay[=/=]LesYay: Has [[HoYay/SailorMoon its own page]].

* IJustWantToHaveFriends - Type A. See the page for details.

* IGotBetter: [[spoiler:Done as a reset button. End of the first story arc, everyone dies, but Sailor Moon revives everyone, including herself. In the manga she's the only survivor, and revives everyone and repairs the damage. Earth is ravaged at the end of 2nd arc, she just fixes it again. Everybody but her dies in the last arc, and she revives them again.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends Usagi is a Type A, while Ami and Makoto are Type B.
** Also that Usagi/Super Sailor Moon is TheMessiah, though that may not count.

* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: In the manga, we know for certain that [[spoiler: the [[TheManBehindTheMan The Evil Behind All Evils]] is not destroyed and one day will return with unimaginable power]] (although there is still hope, thanks to modern-day Usagi). The anime has a more upbeat ending, but [[spoiler: the final BigBad will exist AsLongAsThereIsEvil, so there is always risk of the old nightmare starting anew]].

* GenreLaunch: Set off the MagicalGirlWarrior genre, though CuteyHoney and DevilHunterYohko [[OlderThanTheyThink predate it]]. Remains the TropeCodifier.

* ActionGirl: Most all of the Sailor Senshi, really. This is actually one of the main points of the series.

* SpiritBomb: "Sailor Teleport", "Sailor Planet Attack"

** {{YMMV}} Shingo might get better grades but he's also doing less difficult schoolwork regarding his age, so intelligence cannot be measured fairly between the two. He feels rather irresponsible in season 1, for it is Usagi who scolds him for being insensitive to his girlfriend by breaking her doll.

The tropes found in both the anime and manga versions of ''SailorMoon''.

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* [=~Everything's Better With Princesses~=]: There's Princess Serenity, and in the manga and English dub, the inner senshi are all princesses as well. The Outers are also Princesses in the manga. Technically speaking, every series of senshi throughout the galaxy has a ''true'' princess they protect.

** DangerouslySHortSkirt: Each of the {{Action Girl}}s have one.

** Probably the more notable instance of this trope is that everyone of the bigbads in each story arc threatens to [[EndoftheWorldasWeKnowit destroy all live on earth]]. [[Spoiler: In the anime, Galaxia actually succeeds, [[ItGotBetter though everyone gets revived later]].

*** Ironically, In the anime, Makoto/Sailor Jupiter views Haruka and Michiru as this when they got upset at Usagi.

* StoryArc

* ThemeNaming: several places, including most villains being named after gems; creator Naoko Takeuchi's hometown Kofu, Yamanashi is famous for its gem industry. Also, the Inner Senshi's surnames relate to their planets and/or powers:

*** Justified, in the manga, the Dark Kingdom says that they have looked all over the world for the Silver Crystal ''except'' in Japan.

* SealedEvilInACan: multiple examples

* ShooOutTheClowns: both straight and inverted.

** They [[CharacterDevelopment get]] better in the manga though. Uranus and Neptune not so much in the anime though, as seen in ''Stars''.

** They [[CharacterDevelopment get]] better, though.

* ItGetsWorse: [[spoiler:The 2nd story arc is mostly this in the manga, all of the Senshi get captured but Sailor Moon, and even she gets captured when she goes to the future, but they manage to get free. The final story arc is this in the manga and anime, though mostly towards the end in the latter. To start with, Mamoru is killed by Sailor Galaxia, the rest of the Sailor Senshi are killed by her and her henchmen, the talking cats dies, the allies introduced in the story arc die (except for Chibichibi), and Chibiusa and her senshi come back from the future to die. [[ItGotBetter Sailor Moon revives them all later though.]]

** Or did they? [[spoiler:the cats are never seen again after their death scene in the manga.]]

* DiscOneFinalBoss

* CrystalPrison: Jadeite's fate.

** In the live-action he's a more faithful adaptation of this trope, as he spends most of his time playing video games and largely treats Usagi like an idiot.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Yes, [[ValuesDissonance the anime is intended for children in Japan, as it was in America. Just somewhat older children.]] And despite the violence of the manga, it was running in a magazine aimed at 9-13 year old girls. Granted, there was some [[AudienceShift growing with the audience]] going on, which resulted in the DarkerAndEdgier later seasons.

** [[OrWasIt Or did they?]] [[spoiler:the cats are never seen again after their death scene in the manga.]]

* EvilIsSexy: The bulk of the villains embody this, unless they're an EldrichAmbomination, and are either attractive woman in fairly revealing clothes or pretty boys.