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7	[[caption-width-right:300:''"Honey Flash!"'']]
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9	->''Right now you are Cutey Honey! You are a super android that has the power of humans, times seven!''
10	-->--'''Doctor Takeshi Kisaragi'''
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12	A popular superheroine from the bizarre mind of Creator/GoNagai and animated by Creator/ToeiAnimation. Notable, among other things, for being one of the first female characters to star in a {{sho\|nenDemographic}}unen series and [[Franchise/SailorMoon through inspiration]], the [[UrExample prototypical]] MagicalGirlWarrior.
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14	In the original series from the 70s (aired on Creator/TVAsahi, then known as NET), Honey Kisaragi was created as a ReplacementGoldfish for Dr. Takeshi Kisaragi's dead daughter, until the criminal organization (with ties to TheLegionsOfHell) "Panther Claw" kills the scientist while trying to steal his other AppliedPhlebotinum. Honey soon acquires a secret identity as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent while fighting Panther Claw's forces, including an especially freaky set of [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] in the service of BigBad Sister Jill and her QuirkyMinibossSquad.
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16	Honey's main power is the Phlebotinum her father was killed for -- her body contains the [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup only prototype]]. Most modern adaptations explain it with {{Nanomachines}}, but it's capable of assembling virtually any object from thin air (and disassembling them, too). Honey uses this to become a VoluntaryShapeshifter, able to switch between several forms with matching abilities, costumes, and hair -- especially her most powerful form, the sword-wielding redhead Cutey Honey.
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18	''Cutey Honey'' (also ''Cutie Honey'') has one of the strangest target histories around. It was originally conceived as a simultaneous manga and anime medium for a {{Shojo}} demographic, focused on romance and lacking any nudity or excessive violence; in fact, Honey herself owed her transformations to a smart way to sell ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}''-inspired changing dolls merchandising. However, due to a timeslot change, the unproduced anime ended up slated to debut in a {{Shonen}} hour show of all things, which led to Nagai and company to realize they had to change the tone to make it more appealing to a male audience. Thus, they added more action and much more nudity, especially but not limited to Honey's transformation sequences, and so the tone for ''Cutey Honey'' was set. The resultant anime ended up getting cancelled over its then-racy content, but it still developed a following, and ironically and to Nagai's surprise, it was tame and pretty enough to [[PeripheryDemographic attract an unexpected number]] of younger female fans as well as it had been once planned.
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20	Cutey Honey was usually described as a superhero and not a magical girl, but her spiritual descendants have essentially melded back into the genre to produce the MagicalGirlWarrior. Most anime of that ilk owe a lot to Honey: ''Anime/SailorMoon'''s very early broadcast incarnation, in particular, owes much to the visual tropes done in ''Cutey Honey'', right down to her InTheNameOfTheMoon speech and her ability to transform. (Go Nagai eventually did create a "traditional" MagicalGirl, the more kid-friendly and less successful ''Anime/MajokkoTickle'', in 1978.)
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22	Reruns in the 1980s on TV Tokyo kept the original series alive in the Japanese public consciousness, and it was also later broadcast in France under the title "Cherry Miel" ("Cherry Honey") - albeit not until 1989 (although it did air uncut). It was [[{{Revival}} revived]] several times over the years, with most of those revivals and various manga taking an even more {{Fanservice}} route.
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24	* ''Anime/NewCuteyHoney'' (''Shin Cutey Honey'', 1994-1995): A slightly DarkerAndEdgier [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]] sequel produced with Creator/StudioJunio and Creator/TransArts. It is set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, with {{Cyberpunk}} overtones and several {{Lawyer Friendly Cameo}}s by other Go Nagai characters. The transformation sequences were [[FanService lovingly]] animated. This slightly infamous version of the story is one of the few officially released outside Japan, although it is [[{{Ecchi}} admittedly faithful]] to Creator/GoNagai's work. The series was originally planned to be four episodes long, but received an extension to 12 planned episodes; however, the second set of episodes was canceled after the eighth episode.
25	* ''Anime/CutieHoneyFlash'' (1997-1998): This incarnation was directly aimed at the demographic for ''Manga/SailorMoon'' - in fact, when ''Sailor Stars'' ended, ''Cutey Honey Flash'' became the final anime series to air on Creator/TVAsahi's 7:00 p.m. timeslot every Saturday before the series moved to its 6:30 p.m. timeslot occuring on the same day for the last 15 episodes; the series shared a lot of the same production staff. Aside from obvious reasons, was tweaked to play up the MagicalGirl aspects of the character, right down to a sparkling stock footage TransformationSequence and a FrillyUpgrade. This version also introduced a now standard trope, the DarkMagicalGirl, Misty Honey.
26	* Creator/HideakiAnno and Creator/StudioGainax produced a LiveActionAdaptation movie version in 2004, titled simply ''[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cutey_honey_f.jpg Cutie Honey.]]''
27	* Gainax also released a 3-part {{OVA}}, ''Anime/ReCutieHoney'', at roughly the same time. [[BroadStrokes This series used the premises and characterizations from the 2004 movie]], but played up the LesYay between Honey and Natsuko, here revamped as an [[{{Determinator}} stern, tough as nails adult policewoman]]. Anno was also part of this series, but while he provided the overall series direction, each episode had a different director and it shows.
28	* ''Cutey Honey a Go Go!'', a brief manga series that loosely adapts the movie, taking elements like the I-System and Natsuko as a police officer and going in a different direction before being cut off.
29	* A {{Toku}} live-action series, ''[[Series/CutieHoneyTheLive Cutie Honey: THE LIVE]]'' aired in 2007. This series revolved around Honey (and [[SixthRanger two counterparts introduced later]]) fighting a radically different version of the Panther Claw. Quite possibly the most bizarre series yet as it pinballs between utterly shameless SoBadItsGood fanservice and utterly serious, [[DarkerAndEdgier dark drama]].
30	* Honey VS: A One-Shot manga that is serialized on June 6 2012 on Shueisha's [[Magazine/ShonenJump Grand Jump]] that is also a crossover with various Dynamic Productions series including Getter Robo and Dororon Enma-kun.
31	* A second live-action film, ''Cutie Honey: Tears'', was released in October 2016. ''Tears'' is completely unrelated to the previous movie, and instead features Honey in a DarkerAndEdgier {{Cyberpunk}} setting, complete with a more serious and dramatic tone. She also has a given name, Hitomi.
32	* ''Anime/CutieHoneyUniverse'' (2018): The latest animated adaptation for the heroine and the first not to involve Toei in any capacity (Creator/AshiProductions handles the series' production instead), returning to the TV series format. Released for the [[MilestoneCelebration 50th Anniversary of Go Nagai's works]] alongside ''Anime/MazingerZInfinity'' and ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby''.
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34	There have also been several different manga adaptations of the franchise.
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36	Despite its status as a legendary and influential anime in Japan, Cutie Honey is almost entirely unknown in North America, with the original not being released in the US until late 2013, when Creator/DiscotekMedia distributed the series on DVD. This series is not to be confused with another old-school anime, ''Manga/HoneyHoney'' - although coincidentally both ''Honey Honey'' and the original ''Cutey Honey'' TV series had the same head writer (Masaki Tsuji) and some of the same animation/directorial staff.
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38	!!This series provides examples of:
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43	* ActionGirl: Every anime Action Girl is just following the example Honey established way back when. She's to anime what [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]] is to video games.
44	* ActionSurvivor: In almost all adaptations, Seiji is a regular guy who gets caught in the crossfire between Honey and Panther Claw. He's generally useless against major opponents, but he can hold his own against mooks and his quick thinking saves the day a fair number of times.
45	* AllLovingHero: Honey is a downplayed example, since she is capable of hating people, revenge and killing her enemies. However she has shown kindness and sympathy to some of them.
46	** However, love is still her main credit and claim to fame, and according to the incarnation hate and revenge are shown as clearly clouding her judgment, affecting her powers or causing her distress by clashing with her fundamentally good natured soul.
47	* AllMenArePerverts: An example in the manga. In a chapter Danbei and his son Junpei notice a bronze statue (of a naked woman) that was not at the park before which they sexually harass after noticing how the statue reacts to being touched. The statue was actually Honey in disguise and she eventually broke her disguise in an outburst and hid in the bushes.
48	* AnimeThemeSong: One of the most famous in anime history and covered for every subsequent production. The exception is ''Universe'', which uses a different theme.
49	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "You're under arrest on charges of robbery, destruction of property, running red lights, speeding, no helmet, and so on!" From ''New Cutey Honey''.
50	* AssKicksYou: This seems to be one of Honey's standard attacks. This appears in the live series too (albeit not in the movie).
51	* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Honey's default civilian outfit was fashionable when the manga and anime first appeared in the early 70s: a form-fitting blue and white one-piece dress with miniskirt length and a very wide collar with a plunging neckline. However, it is definitely ''out'' of fashion by the late 70s, even though all later series continue to use it. Honey makes it look good in any case.
52	* BadassAdorable: Honey certainly qualifies. She's a very sweet, loveable girl when not in full action mode.
53	* BadassBiker: Hurricane Honey, Honey's second most used form. A woman who is "cool" with her motorcycle, anytime she needs to escape. Besides motorcycles she is able to pilot any other vehicle.
54	* BarbieDollAnatomy: Even happens in the live action versions, although it's [[NippleAndDimed averted]] in ''New Cutie Honey'' [[FreezeFrameBonus (and not only with nipples)]].
55	** Sometimes averted, with hair, scraps of still-transforming clothing, or camera angles keeping her out of NC-17 turf. Sometimes you get the ''Anime/SailorMoon''-esque situation of glowiness not letting you see anything (though really, it's just a little brighter over the areas you need to not display during primetime.)
56	* BathingBeauty: Honey has a few bathing and {{Shower Scene}}s in the franchise. Both the classic series and "New Cutie Honey" feature the former. In fact, the 2004 movie starts with her bathing.
57	* BattleBoomerang: The Honey Boomerang; it is an item that she has on her left arm while in Cutey Honey form. She uses it to attack enemies from a distance, mostly to disarm them.
58	* BetweenMyLegs: Commonly shows up in nearly every version of the show, usually as a Fanservice shot, not least of which is one of these shots with Honey's bare butt in the camera in ''Re: Cutey Honey''.
59	* BigBad: Depending on the continuity, either Panther Zora or Sister Jill is the head of Panther Claw and masterminding their evil plans that Cutey Homey must fight against.
60	* BigEater: The [[TheMovie live-action movie]] and ''Re: Cutey Honey'' versions were this because of their powers; if they were too hungry, they lost vital energy and couldn't transform, and if it got too bad, their clothes would start to dissolve.
61	* BittersweetEnding:
62	** [[spoiler:Panther Claw is never completely defeated in any series.]]
63	** At the end of ''Tears'', in order to stop the poison clouds, [[spoiler:Hitomi must sacrifice herself. But even though she does sacrifice herself, it brings peace to Japan and the disaster has been averted. What's even better, her condenser can regenerate itself]].
64	* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Honey's three most common forms throughout the franchise are a civilian form (blonde), Hurricane Honey (brunette), and Cutey Honey (redhead).
65	* BraggingThemeTune: The theme song talks about how great Honey is, including her fashion sense and bouncy her boobs are. Also see Honey's spiritual descendant ''Anime/MajokkoMegchan'', whose BraggingThemeTune was sung by the same vocalist as the original ''Cutie Honey'' theme.
66	* BreakingTheFourthWall: A scene in the original TV series in which Honey is hanging on a cross (in an homage to Go Nagai's first popular manga series, HarenchiGakuen) and one side of Honey's torn sleeveless unitard-dress is drooping down, exposing her breast, but stopping JUST short of exposing the nipple. One of her tormentors remarks, "That's as far as the broadcasters let us go." However, there was at least one transformation sequence in the original series in which Honey's nipples ''were'' visible, although it's very "blink and you'll miss it."
67	** A literal example is in the 2nd opening of ''Shin Cutey Honey''.
68	* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: Honey Kisaragi frequently says "Honey ''FLASH!''" before transforming into the titular Cutey Honey.
69	** Once per episode, almost without fail (At least in New Cutey Honey - in one episode the villain interrupted her by running away and she {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d how you don't interrupt the heroine's speech), Honey would recite the following to the villain: (Laughs) Sometimes I'm (the first shape she took in the episode), sometimes I'm (second form she took in the episode), and sometimes I'm (third form she took), but the truth is...HONEY FLASH! (Cue TransformationSequence) Lovely Warrior...Cutey Honey-san!
70	** Averted in ''Tears'' where Hitomi can transform without saying anything.
71	* CallingYourAttacks: In the original series and especially in Flash.
72	* {{Camp}}: Played to the hilt. Both Re:Cutey Honey and the live-action movie could drown you in it.
73	* CatchPhrase: Honey often utters, "Kawaru wa yo!" (I'm gonna change!) whenever she transforms. It's even in the opening sequence.
74	* CharacterExaggeration: Mixed with LostInImitation. In the original manga, Honey is a girl of average intelligence who just prefers to play instead of study. She's also of normal maturity, and was mischievous and sometimes even mean to authority figures. In the first anime adaptation she's made more naive to tone down the dirty jokes, so she went from exhibitionist to a quasi InnocentFanserviceGirl. When you get to ''Re: Cutie Honey'', TheMovie, and the live action series, she's way more innocent and air-headed than her early incarnations.
75	* ChivalrousPervert:
76	** Seiji is always one, but to what degree varies depending on the version. In the original, he's more of an AccidentalPervert who nonetheless is very pleased whenever he gets to grope Honey. In Re:Cutey Honey, he's a borderline sexual predator who takes every chance he can get to ogle Honey.
77	** This is a trait of the Hayami clan across multiple versions of the franchise. In the original anime, ''New Cutey Honey'', and even ''Universe'', both [[DirtyOldMan Danbei]] and [[KidAnova Junpei]] are ready to fight or die for Honey almost as soon as they finish leering at her for the first time. In ''Shin[=/=]New'', the teenager Chokkei is somewhere between Seiji and Junpei (well behaved, but not above letting his mind wander), while Chokkei's father Akakabu rivals Danbei's perversion (despite being married) -- but both of them are TrueCompanions to the heroine, regardless.
78	* CleavageWindow: Her costume is a sleeveless unitard with a huge diamond shaped cutout that even shows off a bit of stomach. In Re: Cutey Honey she wears a halterneck crop top with a heart shaped hole over her cleavage. Note the page image.
79	* ClothingDamage: Honey's clothes are shredded off during every transformation sequence, as with her the transformation's not just for audience benefit: the device within her that can rearrange matter is actually dismantling her clothes and reforming them, leaving her naked ''for real'' in ''real space'', as opposed to the way transformations (including magical girl [[SexySilhouette naked silhouette]] ones) are sometimes shown or implied to not look to the outside world the way the TransformationSequence looks to the viewer. Re:Cutie Honey even had her clothes disintegrate whenever she got hungry. And there's plenty of combat-induced Clothing Damage, too (which can also be repaired with a "Honey Flash").
80	* CombatPragmatist: Honey will use ANY and ALL dirty tricks she can think of to come out on top (including but not limited to: distracting the enemy with a shower of diamonds and then dropping a statue on them; transforming her saliva into ''nitroglycerin'' and then spitting on the poor shmuck who had managed to pin her to a tree; ''stripping naked'' by 'flashing' to blind a flamethrower-wielding mook, and, while he was distracted, [[FlamethrowerBackfire kicking him in a fire he had just set, blowing him up]]; and so on...). She never plays by the enemy's rules.
81	* CoolBike: "Hurricane Honey" seems able to either materialize or find one at will.
82	* TheCorruption: This is how quasi-innocents become Monsters of the Week in some continuities.
83	* CutShort:
84	** ''New Cutey Honey'' was originally scheduled for twelve episodes, but it was cut short after the eighth episode was released.
85	** The 1973 series was cancelled due to its then racy content.
86	* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Tears'' takes place in a science-fiction world and is much darker than most of the series in general.
87	* DefeatByModesty... which is averted completely and utterly. Honey treats nudity more as a minor inconvenience at best.
88	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage:
89	** Idol Honey sings the anime theme song while on stage to help raise money for Miharu and Alphonne [[spoiler:to rebuild the destroyed school -- and get them away from the Panther Claw mooks about to attack.]]
90	** ''New Cutey Honey'' has Honey singing the theme song while posing as a musician in the third episode to investigate a villain. Earlier in the episode, Chokkei's father sings a few bars of the song while peeping on Honey taking a shower.
91	** ''Re:Cutie Honey'' plays with this by having a villain sing the theme song... but replacing the lyrics about how beautiful Cutie Honey is with how much she ''hates'' Cutie Honey. She even gets the ''{{mooks}}'' into the action.
92	* DirtyKid: Junpei from the manga and first series, the younger brother of Seiji and son of Danbei. He is also as perverse as his father, trying to peek as Honey in the bath and grope her.
93	* DirtyOldMan: Grandpa Danbei from the manga and ''New Cutey Honey''.
94	* DistaffCounterpart: ''Cutey Honey'' was originally created as a female version of ''Series/WarriorOfLoveRainbowman''.
95	* DistractedByTheSexy: Honey Kisaragi regularly weaponizes this. Although sometimes her transforming device worked wrong and she did it accidentally.
96	* DistressedDude: Every notable male character will always end up needing to be rescued by Honey.
97	* DumbBlonde: In the newer versions (specifically the movie, live-action show and RE), Honey Kisaragi in civilian mode.
98	* EvilLaugh: Honey provides a rare heroic example at the start of her InTheNameOfTheMoon speeches.
99	* ExpositoryThemeTune: The theme song used in every adaptation is a variation, describing not the plot but the protagonist, and fitting in quite well with the fanservicey nature of the series as a whole.
100	* {{Fanservice}}: Arguably, this show is '''the''' show that started this trope in anime.
101	* FemaleFighterMaleHandler: In all versions, it's Honey who gets in the battlefront against Panther Claw, being helped by the journalist and NonActionGuy Seiji Hayami.
102	* GeniusDitz: In the ''RE:'' reboot. In the original show, OVA, and Flash she was strictly a...
103	** GuileHero: To the point it can cause quite a whiplash for those who only know Cutie Honey from the newer iterations of the character.
104	* {{Gonk}}: A large number of characters, with one so ugly she ''fainted upon looking at herself in a mirror'' (her mother had stripped their home of all mirrors so she would never know how she looked, but she grew curious to know how a female body looked... so Honey provided her with a mirror. The first time she was only terrified into helplessness, but when she tried to make Honey pay she had another mirror...).
105	* GrandfatherClause: Honey and Seiji's signature outfits are ''very'' distinctly from the 70s, but they're a central part of the {{Camp}} charm the series is known for and aren't likely to change any time soon.
106	* GravityMaster: Although many adaptations overlook it, the 1973 anime gave Honey enough gravity manipulation abilities to WallCrawl or perform LeParkour. ''Universe'' goes back to this as an explicit power, even having Honey use a gravity-based special attack in one episode.
107	%%* GreaterScopeVillain: Panther Zora.
108	%%* TheHeartless
109	* HotBlooded: She's a Creator/GoNagai character with [HotbloodedSideburns the sideburns to match]], go figure.
110	* HotbloodedSideburns: Less applicable than on other Go Nagai characters, though, as the pic shows.
111	** Even Seiji and Junpei have them.
112	* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: Panther Claw {{Mooks}} tend to use the Luger P.08 (out of mass production from 1942 to 1991 but with a series of small production runs and using the most widely used handgun cartridge in the world) and the Nambu Type 14 (out of production since 1945 with most of the very few surviving exemplar in the hands of American UsefulNotes/WorldWarII veterans, their families and collectors, and whose ammo is extremely difficult to find).
113	%%* InnocentFanserviceGirl
114	* InTheNameOfTheMoon: The originator of this trope, to the point of [[OlderThanTheyThink being occasionally quoted]] by [[Anime/SailorMoon the Trope Namer]].
115	* InconsistentSpelling: The series title has been both "Cutey" and "Cutie" over the years. The most recent releases use "Cutie", such as 'Re:Cutie Honey", but the older series definitely spell it "Cutey".
116	* LeotardOfPower: In at least one adaptation. However, in the original TV series and ''New Cutey Honey'', it's actually more like a ''Unitard'' Of Power.
117	* LighterAndSofter: Arguably every incarnation other than the original manga, even the darker toned ''Shin Cutey Honey'' doesn't scape from this. While most subsequent adaptations focus on {{Fanservice}} and violence, the original manga is full of BlackComedy that borderlines proto-DeadBabyComedy, many characters died and it was played for laughs, many [[{{Gonk}} gonky]] girls tried to rape Honey's friend Natsuko and even the dirty jokes are far more kinky and hardcore, for example, towards the end of the manga [[spoiler:Junpei, a 10 years old boy licks Honeys crotch while she is naked and only covered in gold paint, and also [[EverybodyDiesEnding everyone dies]] but Honey, the Hajami family and [[GreaterScopeVillain Panther Zora]] ]]. Taken a step further with the 90's version, Cutey Honey flash, in this version is a magical girl series in the same line of ''Anime/SailorMoon''.
118	** The 2004 live action film and ''Re: Cutie Honey'' are also this to Creator/HideakiAnno's other works, who is infamous for usually going all-in on making things DarkerAndEdgier.
119	* TheLoad: Almost in every adaptation the majority of the male characters have at best been helpful mowing down a couple of mooks (who are also men. Notice the pattern?), but will ultimately always become the DistressedDude, leaving Cutie Honey to save the day.
120	* MagicalGirlWarrior: Helped define the trope.
121	* MasterOfDisguise: Through the "Airborne Element Fixing Device", Honey is able to manipulate the air molecules in the air to create objects and change her appearance. Honey has a large array of transformations and disguises in the series.
122	* MatterReplicator: Dr. Kisaragi's Airborne Element Fixing Device (translations vary) is able to produce nearly anything out of literal thin air. Panther Claw desires the device because it can produce unlimited quantities of gold, gems, and other shiny things. Honey's disguises frequently come with accessories and weapons like firehoses, axes, or guns.
123	* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Danbei is a short old man with a bald head.
124	* MonogenderMonsters: All of the monsters are female, without exception.
125	** ''New Cutey Honey'' was the only one to buck this trend, if only slightly. The majority of the monsters were female, but occasionally there were male goons and [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the]] {{Montage}}. Also the DecoyLeader before Panther Zora reappeared, Lord Dolmeck, was pretty manly.
126	* MoodWhiplash: It's hilarious and fanservicey.. and horrible things sometimes happen to characters you like.
127	%%* {{Mooks}}: The mooks are all male, though.
128	* MoreThanMindControl: Panther Zora recruits several [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] this way. In the latter half of ''New Cutey Honey'' we see this in action; a huge, muscular woman (part of a quartet of thieves) slowly becomes more psychotic as she succumbs to her rage and Zora's MindRape, and eventually she turns into an acid-spewing monster fully under Panther Zora's control and willing to kill (or try to kill) her former TrueCompanions without a thought simply ForTheEvulz.
129	* MsFanservice: Honey naturally. Her default 'hero' outfit has a CleavageWindow that borders on a NavelDeepNeckline, and in the live action her outfit is a leather one that shows off all her features just perfectly while still being mostly cartoon-accurate. And she takes the MagicalGirl TransformationSequence to a new level - the transformation mechanism actually makes her clothes disintegrate and reintegrate in a new form, leaving her quite naked for a good few seconds while in midmorph. All that being said, however, it's not a good idea to think she's just eye candy -- none of this prevents her from being an ABSOLUTE BADASS!
130	* MultiformBalance: The ''Cutie Honey'' swordswoman form is usually the most powerful, but each of her transformations tends to have its advantages.
131	* NippleAndDimed: All the versions with the exception of Flash and the live-action.
132	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Some incarnations of Honey act [[TheDitz ditzier]] than she really is. In the older versions, she was mischievous rather than dumb.
133	%%* OneWingedAngel
134	* PoliceAreUseless: Most often. Exaggerated to a ridiculous degree in the original manga and ''Re: Cutie Honey'': all generic cops are rendered as cheering, clueless children, completely useless when Sister Jill walks in to steal something they were supposed to protect.
135	** In ''Universe'', save for Inspector Genet and Seiji Hayami (an operative for the PCIS, the anti-Panter Claw police department) the rest of the police are mocked as useless laughing-stock needing Honey to fight.
136	* PragmaticHero: Honey herself is not above killing her enemies, but only for the greater good.
137	* PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: The "Honey Boomerang".
138	%%* PsychoLesbian: Several.
139	* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Best exemplified in ''Re: Cutey Honey'' where Panther Claw has a "Big Four" for Honey to fight through before she gets to Sister Jill.
140	* RefugeInAudacity: ''New Cutey Honey'' and ''Re: Cutey Honey'' don't even try to be subtle in their blatant fanservice.
141	** The characters themselves sometimes are this. For example, Sister Jill's plan to steal a gold statue in the original manga was to announce when she'd come, ''enter from the main gate after ringing the bell'', and issue a death threat on anyone who dared interfere.
142	* ReplacementGoldfish: Honey herself, created as the "replacement" for Dr. Kisaragi's dead daughter (though before dying, Daddy told her she should become her own person). In ''New Cutey Honey'', she shows signs of this towards that version of Natsuko after the original's HeroicSacrifice.
143	** Averted somewhat in ''Re: Cutie Honey'', where Honey is the original daughter's mind resurrected in an android body.
144	** A darker version is shown in ''The Live''. [[spoiler:Proffessor Kisaragi '''mortally wounded Miki and killed her family, made her into an android with his daughter's memory''', and then '''threw her away when he realized she was flawed'''. Miki came back to kill him later, though. He'd also done it to Yuki, and her memories of her life are all fake; he at least gave her what she thought was a good life after she proved flawed, though. The reason this Honey is TheDitz and ''not'' an ObfuscatingStupidity version is because he needed to make a replacement capable of loving anyone - even the monster he even saw ''himself'' as by this point.]]
145	** Fully averted in ''Universe'': Dr. Kisaragi's last words to Honey are a loving and encouraging speech about her being "more precious than a real daughter" and "forged by [his] love and soul". Honey praises her 'papa' for giving her "my life and my body" every time she reminisces about him.
146	* {{Revival}}: Several times -- ''New Cutey Honey'', ''Cutey Honey F'', TheMovie, ''Re: Cutie Honey'', and ''Cutie Honey: The Live''.
147	** SeriesFauxnale: A weird case of a revival revival: ''New Cutey Honey'' had a definite air of finality in its fourth episode, but production got renewed for four more {{OVA}}s, so Panther Zora started injecting her will into certain violent individuals to turn them into monsters.
148	* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Natsuko in the original manga and TV series. Twilight Prince/Prince Zera, Prof. Kisaragi and Seira in Cutey Honey Flash.]]
149	%%* StalkerWithACrush
150	%%* StuffBlowingUp
151	* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Every episode, before one of her Transformation Sequences, Honey will recap the forms she's taken that episode before transforming into her Red Haired Warrior form.
152	* TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter: Honey's "forms" or disguises are mostly a change of clothes, hairstyle and eye color, but she can actually change her appearance beyond that. Her clothing is made of the same material as the rest of her body and can rearrange its particles at her will.
153	* ThanksForTheMammary: Honey is groped by both male comrades and villains.
154	* TookALevelInDumbass: Post-''Flash'', Kisaragi Honey took one in each new adaptation, to the point by the time ''Cutie Honey The Live'' rolled around, outside the name she had very little to do with the original personality-wise
155	* TransformationSequence: Which is either more or less fanservicey depending on which incarnation you're watching.
156	* TransformationTrinket: Honey uses her choker to transform into different outfits, including her normal one.
157	* TransformationNameAnnouncement: "Ai no senshi, Cutey Honey sa!"
158	%%* TheTrickster: Honey herself.
159	* WhipOfDominance:
160	** Sister Jill is a {{Dominatrix}} themed-villainess with a sadistic streak and most of her incarnations have her wielding a whip as her primary weapon.
161	** Most incarnations of Miharu Tsunen have her be a SadisticTeacher who is so strict and obsessed with discipline that she literally uses a whip on students.
162	* WigDressAccent: Honey's transformations tend to work this way, although [[LatexPerfection there are exceptions]].
163	* YouKilledMyFather: Panther Claw either kills or kidnaps Dr. Kisaragi no matter what the version is, prompting Honey to go and try to kill every single member of the group.
164	* YoungerThanTheyLook: Honey passes for a 16-year old human when she's not transformed to look older or younger, but was built more recently than that.
165	[[/folder]]
166
167	[[folder:Original Manga]]
168	* FanDisservice: The manga had lots of nudity. Most of it was legitimate fanservice, but there was also the {{Gonk}} bullies at Honey's school (hairiest breasts you'll ever see. When Honey tricks them into watching themselves in a mirror for the first time in their life, they ''scream in horror''), Danbei ([[MaleFrontalNudity full-frontal even!]]), a detective whose anus won't stop bleeding, and Honey (who usually provides fanservice) getting half-naked because ''Sister Jill bit her shoulders until the arm went limp'', destroying her shirt and covering her torso in blood in the process.
169	* FromNobodyToNightmare: Sister Jill, though she wasn't exactly non-threatening [[spoiler:since she's an actual panther turned into human]].
170	** A blink-and-you-miss scene in the finale implies that Sister Jill [[spoiler:was human all along, but a literal nobody: as Cutey Honey lectures her, in her final moments, about the power of dreams, she relieves her life, ending with the image of a poor, haggard, blonde-haired girl, hinting at a past of hardships]].
171	* HeroicSacrifice: During the manga version of [[spoiler:the attack on Honey's school, Honey creates a fake rock shell around Natsuko to help her hide from the Panther Claw minions hunting down survivors. But since Honey wasn't in top condition herself, Natsuko [[BodyDouble breaks out from the shell when a group of Quirky Minibosses nears them, loudly pretending to be Honey]], and tries to lure them away from the real Honey. She doesn't make it far before she's burned to death.]]
172	* PhlebotinumBreakdown: Later in the manga, Honey's powers became more and more unreliable.
173	* TheStarscream: When Sister Jill chastised Dragon Panther, her subordinate openly rebelled, declaring Jill was too weak to order her around, and she would kill her and fill her position. It did not work how she expected it to.
174	* ThisIsUnforgivable: Being a HotBlooded ActionGirl, Honey is bound to utter the sentence several times. One example happened shortly after one of Panther Claw minions [[spoiler:charred her best friend to ashes:]]
175	-->'''Honey:''' Not only They did kill my papa... And blow up my school and kill my friends... My best friend.. They killed Nacchan too! I won't forgive you, Panther Claw! No matter what happens to my body, I will kill each and every member of Panther Claw!
176	* ThisPageWillSelfDestruct: Dr. Kisaragi's robot recording and house do this after delivering his posthumous exposition. Honey is about ''this'' close to leaving Seiji to die so he can't tell anyone.
177	* TheUnfought: Panther Zora in the original manga.
178	** Also in the ''Universe'' anime: [[spoiler:where Honey simply reaches into her dimension, returning with enough power to defeat Sister Jill and empower the Honey Army]]
179	[[/folder]]
180
181	[[folder:1973 Anime]]
182	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Alphonne lusts after Honey repeatedly, and in the very first episode she's shown fantasizing about Honey and tries to make out with her when they're alone. Thankfully it was a dummy made of a wig and some janitor equipment Honey left behind.
183	* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The Panther Claw actually tracks Honey back to her school and destroys it.
184	* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The 1989 French dub, ''Cherry Miel'', has a totally different theme song from the original, which makes it sound more like a kiddie show even though the series aired uncut in France.
185	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Seiji gets brainwashed by Panther Claw in one episode.
186	* BreakingTheFourthWall: While she is hanging on the cross, one of the torn sleeves of Honey's leotard-dress droops down and exposes literally all of her breast ''except'' the nipple - one tiny sliver of fabric is all that keeps the nipple from being exposed. One of her tormentors remarks, "This is as far as the writers let us go."
187	* ClingyJealousGirl: Junpei's girlfriend, Mami, is insanely jealous of his attraction to Honey.
188	* CollapsingLair: Any base belonging to a Panther Claw member will self-destruct upon its owner's death, [[spoiler:including Sister Jill's chateau in the last episode]].
189	* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: Honey often carries her sword this way when she needs her hands free, including the time she used a pirate disguise.
190	* DeathByMaterialism: Panther Claw's main goal in obtaining Honey's elemental manipulation device is to create unlimited numbers of diamonds, rubies, and other shiny things. [[spoiler:In the last episode, Honey pours out gemstones to distract Sister Jill long enough to bring a statue down on her head.]]
191	* GlamourFailure: In Episode 3, Honey and Seiji wonder why the owner of a new jewelry store refuses to let reporters take photos of her. Turns out she's a Panther Claw minion in disguise, and the camera shows her true form.
192	%%* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Natsuko's final scene.]]
193	* HostageForMacGuffin: The baddies try this a lot, usually using Seiji, Junpei, and/or Danbei as the hostage.
194	* HotForStudent: Alphonne-sensei has a crush on Honey.
195	* JunglePrincess: One of Honey's transformations in Episode 20.
196	* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Natsuko is generally friendly and supportive of Honey. She gave her life to save her during Panther Claw's attack on St. Chapel Academy]].
197	* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the original manga, Panther Claw's attack on Honey's school was a bloodbath, killing everyone except Honey (including Alphonne and Miharu, whose deaths were PlayedForLaughs). In the anime version, the only casualty was [[spoiler:Natsuko]].
198	* SwordBeam: One of Honey's less frequently used powers.
199	* ThemeNaming: Panther Claw's minions all have either "panther" or "claw" in their names.
200	* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: When Sister Jill discovers she's been photographed by a reporter, Jill is so outraged she goes from ordering the film destroyed to hunting down the reporter, destroying the film, killing the reporter, and then burning down the newspaper's building and kill everyone inside.
201	* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Honey has great aim with that sword.
202	* TwoTeacherSchool: Alphonne and Miharu/"Histler" are the only teachers in Honey's school.
203	* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Episode 14, where Natsuko dies and the school blows up. Then the Hayami house burns down in the next episode along with Seiji's workplace.]]
204	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Dr. Kisaragi brings this up in the first episode with his "What is a human? What is a robot?" speech, the gist of which is that even though Honey is an android, he still loves her like a daughter.
205	[[/folder]]
206
207	[[folder:''New Cutey Honey'']]
208	* ActionMom: Daiko Hayami. At one point, she's able to HulkOut of wires that even Honey and Danbei couldn't break.
209	* AlasPoorVillain: Gold Digger's the only one of the transformed villains who briefly turns back into her human form, done long enough for her to realize her body's been torn apart by the destroyed transporter. As Gold Digger lets out a final scream just before she's obliterated Honey, who found her actions loathsome, can only turn away in sadness as she bids her enemy good luck in the next life.
210	* AmbiguouslyBrown: Jewel Princess has dark skin.
211	* AmnesiaDanger: In the first episode, Honey spends a long while running from the Mooks of the apparent BigBad until she gets her memories back and remembers she can kick their sorry butts easily.
212	* AmusementParkOfDoom: Yasha and the horde of JidaiGeki mannequins she controlled and sent on a rampage came from "Samurai Park", an old theme park that closed years ago.
213	* AntiVillain: Natsuko's former friends Gene, Pokey, and Jan stole a bomb with plans to hold it for ransom, and then use the money to start over somewhere else. The bomb heist was going to be their last heist, before Gene got [[HijackedByGanon Hijacked by Panther Zora]] and killed Pokey and Jan.
214	* BackFromTheDead: Black Maiden is really Panther Zora.
215	* BigBad: Dolmeck is the main antagonist of the series. [[spoiler:Or the DiscOneFinalBoss, at least.]]
216	* BlasphemousBoast: Gold Digger finds the idea of becoming a god laughable.
217	-->'''Gold Digger''': Become both a god, ''and'' a master of evil? I don't think so. There is no God, in ''my'' world.
218	* TheConstant: In the [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture ambiguous future]] of ''New Cutey Honey'', a cyborged Danbei is the only living reminder of Honey's past.
219	%%* DarkerAndEdgier
220	* DepravedHomosexual: Virtual Hacker, a CampGay MasterOfIllusion.
221	* DistractedByTheSexy: Gold Digger has two blinding lights on the inside of her breast plates she uses to stun her enemies (after flipping the bra cups open to get their attention.)
222	* DoAnythingRobot: In this version, Grandpa Danbei's become a Do Anything [[HollywoodCyborg Cyborg]], with most of ''Anime/{{Mazinger Z}}'''s attacks. (This is {{Lampshaded}} in the eighth episode.)
223	* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Danbei now is a {{Cyborg}} and he has a few great attacks which are a great help.
224	* ForTheEvulz: Scorpion, the battle mistress.
225	-->"You want my motivation? [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Fuck. You.]] ''That's'' my motivation. I [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath make gang members fight to the death]] and I got [[GoGoEnslavement scantily clad women to serve me drinks while I watch]]. Why ''wouldn't'' I be doing this?"
226	* ForgotTheCall: Honey begins the series in AmnesiaDanger as the SexySecretary to the first episode's DecoyProtagonist.
227	%%* GigglingVillain: Peeping Spider.
228	* GoGoEnslavement: Scorpion subjects the women captured by her Thug Hunter squads who catch her eye to this. Most of the others are implied to be left to her men. [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe Daiko is offended that she's left with the male delinquents being forced to fight to the death.]]
229	* GreaterScopeVillain: Panther Zora. It turns out Dolmeck was really [[TheDragon just attempting]] to revive Panther Zora to her former glory.
230	* {{Greed}}: Gold Digger's motivation is her lust for gold, to the point she even bathes in gold pieces and speaks to a pile of gold bars as if it was her baby.
231	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Peeping Spider, almost. It was in the eighth episode, which was the last one made.]]
232	* HijackedByGanon: Panther Zora showing up after three episodes of Dolmeck as the BigBad.
233	* HotterAndSexier: Of all the Cutey Honey adaptations, ''New Cutey Honey'' has the largest amount of {{Fanservice}} and nudity, especially with the numerous {{Transformation Sequence}}s.
234	* {{Hypocrite}}: Jewel Princess loathes Virtual Hacker and refers to him as the "Virtual Pervert." This coming from a woman whose lair is ''literally'' made up of the petrified corpses of beautiful women she fondles at any given moment.
235	* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Honey looks a few years older in ''New Cutey Honey'', possibly due to having used her transformation abilities to age just out of puberty.
236	* LadyLooksLikeADude: Gene is the most masculine looking female in the series, for being huge, muscular, and having a masculine haircut.
237	* LampshadeHanging: Quite a bit in Volume 2, though often it's straight [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall breaking]] - like when Honey says she's contractually obligated to wear a bulletproof bra because the fans would be devastated if anything happened to her breasts.
238	* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Several — Honey wears the [[Manga/CatsEye Kisugi sisters' unitard]] in episode 2, she turns into "Chinese Warrior Honey" or "[[{{Woolseyism}} Kung Fu Honey]]"[[note]][[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] with a ''green'' UsefulNotes/{{qipao}}[[/note]] in episode 3, into "Sukeban Honey"[[note]][[{{Delinquents}} Saki Asamiya]] from ''Manga/SukebanDeka''[[/note]] as well as [[Wrestling/JushinThunderLiger Liger Mask]] [[note]] appropriate since Go Nagai created the Jushin Liger character in the first place [[/note]] in ep. 7, and into [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn a stripper who looks a lot like]] [[Manga/MagicKnightRayearth Hououji Fuu]] in ep. 8. The series also has guest appearances by many Go Nagai characters such as [[Manga/{{Devilman}} Akira Fudo]], [[Anime/MazingerZ Professor Kabuto]], and an unnamed cameo by the [[Anime/MazingerZ Gamia sisters]] as a group of ''[[{{Ninja}} Kunoichi]]''.
239	* MamaBear: Daiko is protective of her family, fighting off anyone who would threaten them.
240	* TheManBehindTheMan: Panther Zora [[spoiler:was the force behind Dolmeck in the first four episodes]], but in the latter half she extends her influence to villains with no connection to her, empowering and corrupting them so they'll become the new Panther Claw.
241	* OlderThanTheyLook: Honey looks a few years older than she did in the original series, but not the over one hundred years she actually is by then.
242	* OutlawCouple: Daiko and Akakabu, Chokkei's parents.
243	* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Chokkei's parents Akakabu and Daiko rob banks for a living, but we only see this once during the intro, and they fail spectacularly as everyone in the bank lobby is armed and gunning for them as soon as they fire a warning shot. The prologue to the second episode establishes that Danbei turned them into {{Boxed Crook}}s.
244	* PlotRelevantAgeUp; The "Black Maiden" (a nude girl in a bottle on top of a suit of armor) turns out to really be Panther Zora's reincarnated form; when Dolmeck's armor is cracked open, evil power courses out and ages her back to her adult form.
245	* PrecociousCrush: Chokkei carried a torch for Honey from before the start of the series.
246	%%* {{Premiseville}}: Cosplay City.
247	* PsychoLesbian: Jewel Princess, a lesbian who likes to seduce her female victims before killing them.
248	* PsychoSerum: The capsules used in the first few episodes, which induce OneWingedAngel in the user. The fifth episode establishes that they're SoLastSeason when Gene casually stomps a rival villain who monstered out this way.
249	* ReplacementGoldfish: Honey treats Natsuko as one for the deceased Nacchan, due to them having the same name and even giving her the other Natsuko's traditional nickname "Nacchan".
250	* RoboticReveal: ''New Cutey Honey'' doesn't mention that Honey is an android until the third episode, when Peeping Spider discovers the secret after Honey no-sells one of the PsychoSerum capsules. Chokkei finds out at the same time, and is freaked out for about half of the next episode.
251	* SeriesFauxnale: The fourth episode seems to end everything with a bang. Then four more episodes got made.
252	* {{Shorttank}}: Natsuko, the plucky young WrenchWench who joins Honey's team after the fifth episode.
253	* ShoutOut: This version has numerous nods to Go Nagai's other works.
254	** One of the guest characters in the show is [[Manga/{{Devilman}} Akira Fudoh]].
255	** Danbei is a walking Go Nagai SuperRobot tribute. His cyborg body is loaded with weapons from Dynamic Publishing's most famous robots, including ''Anime/MazingerZ'', ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' and ''Manga/GetterRobo''. [[LampshadeHanging He was transformed in a cyborg by]] [[Anime/MazingerZ Professor Kabuto]] himself.
256	** According to Go Nagai, Cosplay City was inspired by Franchise/{{Batman}}'s Gotham City.
257	** Honey turns into Wrestling/JushinThunderLiger in episode 7, she also does the iconic pose from the 60's ''Manga/TigerMask'' anime's opening when she enters the ring.
258	*** In the same episode when Honey is imprisoned she has [[Anime/MazingerZ Koji Kabuto]]'s hairstyle and the person whipping her resembles Count Brocken.
259	* ShowerScene: Honey in episode 3, which is accidentally interrupted by Danbei and Chokkei.
260	* SpyCatsuit: Invoked — Chokkei and [[DirtyOldMan Grandpa Danbei]] wear these while on a spying mission with Honey, and Danbei persuades her that she really needs to change into one, too. Danbei is disappointed when his grandson keeps him from peeping on the TransformationSequence.
261	* StoneWall: Akakabu's "fighting style" (if you can call it that) is simply to absorb more punishment than the opponent can dish out until he can find an opening. Daiko fell in love with this determination back when they were rival [[JapaneseDelinquents Delinquents]](because she was unable to defeat him, no matter how many times he got the crap kicked out of him).
262	* TeleportGun: Professor Kabuto's big project instead of Mazinger in this universe is the "Isrum". He declares that it could also make its user into a "god or a demon" before Gold Digger steals it. She then declares that "there's no god in her world" before embarking on a crime spree.
263	* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler:After a long, difficult battle, Honey eventually manages to skewer the BigBad Dolmeck -- just like he wanted. It turns out that he's SealedEvilInACan, and Honey [[NiceJobBreakingItHero opened a portal to Hell]] so the souls of the foes she's defeated can awaken Dolmeck's Dragon to take her true form -- [[HijackedByGanon Panther Zora herself]].]]
264	* [[TooHotForTV Too Hot For Home Video]]: It was originally going to have 12 episodes, but the production company left it at eight due to the costs of censoring some scenes.
265	* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The story takes place a century after the original series in a futuristic Tokyo-like metropolis called Cosplay City.
266	* TragicVillain: Yasha of the sixth episode is mourned at the very end, after everyone realizes she was a relic of a bygone era left to rot in the darkness alongside all the other mannequins from Samurai Park. Honey even sheds a tear, admitting her enemy could've been her sister due to their similarities if not for her corruption by Panther Zora.
267	* UglyGuyHotWife: Akakabu is an overweight man, while Daiko is an attractive young woman.
268	* VillainSong: "Burning Up", by punk rocker Saline.
269	* WaxMuseumMorgue: The Jewel Princess, who kidnaps young women and turns them into crystal statues for her lair.
270	* WhamLine: In the fourth episode, after Black Maiden mocks the idea of Honey believing she's human. What sells it is that Honey recognizes Black Maiden's voice has suddenly become familiar.
271	-->'''Black Maiden:''' It's been a long time, Honey. ''You have no idea how long I waited til I could see you again.''\
272	'''Cutey Honey:''' [[spoiler:Panther Zora!]]
273	* WhipOfDominance: In the second episode, Honey uses her powers to turn into a {{Dominatrix}} themed character, complete with a [[HellBentForLeather red leather outfit]] and a whip, which she uses to briefly subdue the Jewel Princess. ("If you're a princess, then call me ''Queen''!") Ironically, the Jewel Princess actually becomes [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer more attracted to Honey after this transformation, even after getting whipped and tied up by her]].
274	* WrenchWench: Natsuko; she's able to safely disassemble a city-destroying bomb in the episode when she's introduced.
275	* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Honey poses as a stripper to lure a [[BoxedCrook crook she needs boxed]] out of hiding.
276	[[/folder]]
277
278
279	[[folder:Live Action Adaptations]]
280	* AdaptationalBadass: Natsuko is a police inspector instead of a civilian and damsel in distress in ''Cutie Honey''.
281	* AnimatedCreditsOpening: The first live-action film has an animated opening sequence.
282	* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Hitomi Kisaragi, a.k.a. Honey herself]], dies at the end of ''Tears''. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that her condenser is still alive]].
283	* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Sister Yuki]] in ''The Live''.
284	* TheHeroDies: Hitomi dies at the end of ''Tears'' [[spoiler:when she commits her HeroicSacrifice]].
285	* HeroicRROD: In ''Tears'', [[spoiler:Hitomi uses up all of her powers to stop the poison clouds from destroying Tokyo, knowing that it would lead to her death]].
286	* HeroicSacrifice: Towards the end of ''Tears'', Honey decides to sacrifice herself to [[spoiler:stop Jill's poisonous clouds]].
287	* LargeHam: Everyone as per usual, but special mention goes to Seiji in the movie, whose every movement is ridiculously dramatic and drawn out.
288	* LaserGuidedBroadcast: In the Live Action movie adaptation, Panther Claw broadcasts a similar message in both the TV and the Laptop directly aimed towards the three protagonists (Honey, Natsuko and Seiji). Probably the message is only watchable from Seiji's apartment.
289	* LiveActionAdaptation: Three: TheMovie, ''Cutie Honey: The Live'' and ''Cutey Honey: Tears''.
290	* NamedByTheAdaptation: In ''Tears'', Honey is the codename of Hitomi Kisaragi.
291	* PhlebotinumBreakdown: Taken to an extreme with Sister Miki and Sister Yuki in "The Live".
292	* ReplicantSnatching: Cobalt Claw does this to the AlphaBitch in TheMovie.
293	* ShootingGallery: Used in TheMovie to showcase Nat-chan's ImprobableAimingSkills (she unloads a magazine but leaves barely more than one hole).
294	* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Honey, Natsuko and Seiji form one in the live action movie. By the end they run a detective agency together.
295	[[/folder]]
296
297	[[folder:''Cutie Honey Universe'']]
298	* AdaptationalHeroism: Naoko isn't nearly as rapey as in the original manga, often acts as a protector of her fellow students, and actually tries to fight against Badfly Claw when Natsuko is threatened. She fails miserably, but points for effort. [[spoiler:Her YouShallNotPass moment tanking a {{Reality Warp\|er}}ing bomb to save Natsuko and Honey is more successful. It also turns out that Naoko survived her attempted HeroicSacrifice and [[BackForTheFinale returns during the final battle]] to help out Honey against Panther Claw.]]
299	** Tarantula Panther, who was a straight-up villain in other Cutey Honey works, is not evil at all here and is pretty much only a villain because she's on Panther Claw's side but against her own will. She, [[spoiler:or rather her good half, pulls a HeelFaceTurn in episode 10 and atones for her role in Natsuko's death by killing her other half at the cost of her own life.]]
300	** Dragon Panther. She doesn't kill [[spoiler:Natsuko]] like she does in the manga, and she has a PetTheDog moment where she expresses concern for Tarantula Panther when she notices she's feeling troubled. And in episode 10 she [[spoiler:pulls a HeelFaceTurn]]. She also [[spoiler:helps Honey out during the final battle at the cost of her own life]].
301	* AllYourPowersCombined: In the finale [[spoiler:after an IAmSpartacus moment Honey shares part of her powers with the PCIS and her friends. They return, one by one, the powers Honey gave them, amplified and strengthened by their love for her, in time to beat up Sister Jill for good]].
302	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Naoko and her gang. They're definitely not as hairy as they are in the manga (that could be because of the amount of time it would take to animate it all), and their designs lean more towards UglyCute than straight up {{Gonk}}.
303	* AdaptationalUgliness: Fire Claw. In the manga she was quite average-looking, but here, she looks almost like a genderbent of ComicBook/TheJoker.
304	** Histora looks even more haggard, if that was even possible.
305	** Jill to a lesser extent. She looks pretty much the same as she always did, but at the same time she now has a more masculine facial build.
306	* BadBoss: Sister Jill rarely gets many points for good leadership, but stands out here considering her plans for Honey frequently involve sending her subordinates into fights she knows they'll be killed in.
307	* BarrierWarrior: Honey is able to use her self-propelled [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang Honey Boomerangs]] to generate DeflectorShields.
308	* BittersweetEnding: Yes, the good guys win and evil is vanquished, [[spoiler:despite her suffering Honey didn't lose herself or her all-loving heart, Panther Claw is destroyed, the college will be rebuilt and Naoko has a new, even if smaller, Sukeban gang and still loves Honey. But Honey can't still stop herself from weeping, as she reminds herself of everything Sister Jill took from her]].
309	* BreakingOldTrends: Notably the only installment in the series that doesn't utilize "Cutie Honey" as an opening or ending theme; this turn around, the honors go to AOP's "Ai ga Nakucha Isaenai" and Luz' "SISTER", though the traditional theme does show up in the last episode.
310	* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:The entire reason that Sister Jill plays both sides of the fight with Panther Claw over Honey, while forbidding her minions to attack without permission; she wants to make Honey [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy suffer and be enraged]] to the point where she'll ''willingly'' [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil surrender her father's legacy to Jill]].]]
311	* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Naoko, who is still a [[HugeSchoolgirl hulking schoolgirl]], {{Gonk}}y, and threatening, but longs for a nice girl to date and is quite the hopeless romantic.
312	* ButtMonkey: Poor Kogoro...
313	* CreatorCameo: Go Nagai appears in both live-action offerings; In the movie, Honey smashes into his car's windshield, giving him a nice PantyShot, while in the TV series, he appears in the DVD-only 26th episode.
314	* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Natsuko]]'s final words to Honey moments before [[spoiler:she]] dies has the character declaring their love for Honey.
315	* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Inspector Genet is really Sister Jill. We know this already, but Honey doesn't, at-least not until the final episode.]]
316	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler:Sister Jill is hardly scared by Honey's powers, and she's also defiant to the entire PCIS getting on her track. She's utterly terrified by having Honey forgive her in her final moments, screaming at the top of her lungs as Honey plainly and calmly tells that she thinks even Sister Jill has a beating, loving heart somewhere]].
317	* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: In episode 6, [[spoiler:during the attack on Honey's school, Panther Claw uses special bombs that convert nearby materials into gigantic red rose blooms, while [[RealityWarper destabilizing reality]] enough to leave [[TeleFrag bodies partially phased into nearby objects]], instead of conventional explosives like the original manga. Even the henchmen are using weapons that look, and act, like flamethrowers -- except that they fire red rose petals mixed with particle effects.]]
318	* FatBastard: Octopanther is the fattest member of Panther Claw, and the most selfish.
319	* {{Flanderization}}: Danbei and Junpei Hayami unfortunately both fall under this to the point of [[TheScrappy scrappy levels]][[invoked]]. In previous installments they were still both quite perverted, but they at least managed to have their more positive traits shine through and were often either supportive or helpful to Honey. In this series however, their perverted sides are cranked up, constantly sexually harassing Honey in almost every scene they appear in. They start off incredibly annoying, but border on being creepy, since they now like cross-dressing...
320	* FlowerMotifs: Roses are everywhere in this series. [[spoiler:Sister Jill uses white roses to turn women into her minions, they turn red when their transformation is complete.]]
321	* GenderBender: In the final episode [[spoiler: all of Cutie Honey's allies turn into Cutie Honey -- including the men. The transformation progressively weakens, and some of the men are briefly shown as female, red-haired versions of themselves.]]
322	* {{Gonk}}: Naoko and her friends are all these or UglyCute.
323	* HateSink: Sister Jill has always been a vile character, but in this series she's even more of an irredeemable scumbag than before, taking sadistic pleasure in Honey's suffering and pretending to be her friend (under her Genet disguise) only to stab her in the back. She doesn't even care about her own subordinates, seeing them as little more than pawns to be used and disposed of (Tarantula Panther and Dragon Panther even turn against her and join Honey's side because of this attitude). Needless to say, Jill is very clearly meant to be written as loathsome as possible for this installment.
324	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:During Panther Claw's assault on Saint Chapel, Naoko, in revenge for the death of her entire gang and in order to protect Honey, intercepts a deadly attack by Snake Panther and covers Honey and Natsuko's escape at the cost of her own life. [[SubvertedTrope Except she turns out to have survived]] since [[BackForTheFinale she's one of the participants during the final battle against Sister Jill]], complete with her saying that she climbed her way out of Hell just to have her revenge against Jill for the destruction of the school.]]
325	* HeroicSecondWind: Seeing every single one of her friends rushing to her help, [[spoiler:causes the battered, broken, defeated Honey to spring back to action]]
326	* LightIsNotGood / DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:At the climax of Episode 9, Tarantula Panther splits into two separate individuals. The one dressed in white promptly murders Natsuko while the one dressed in black tries to stop her.]]
327	* LikesOlderWomen: Junpei, who is a pre-teen, has a crush on Inspector Genet, who appears to be at least 20 years older than him, on top of his crush on Honey.
328	* MeaningfulEcho: Counteracting [[spoiler:Sister Jill's IronicEcho]], every single character coming to help [[spoiler:Honey in the final battle, recites a modified version of the ''Sometimes I'm ...., however my real identity is Cutey Honey!", replacing the first part with their real name]].
329	* NotHisSled: ''Universe'' is strongly inspired by the original manga -- see the statue scene. However, [[spoiler:when Honey disguises Natsuko while escaping from the attack on St. Chapel, and then Natsuko attempts to distract the Panther Claw[[note]]see the Heroic Sacrifice entry in the Manga section[[/note]], Naoko suddenly appears in time to protect Natsuko and Honey, allowing both of them to escape alive. This continues on with Tarantula Panther having a LiteralSplitPersonality crisis when she was conflicted about having to kill Natsuki, half of Tarantula Panther and Dragon Panther pulling a HeelFaceTurn, and Naoko turning out to have survived her attempted HeroicSacrifice six episodes prior to the finale.]]
330	* IAmSpartacus: At the climax of the last confrontation with Sister Jill, [[spoiler:Honey is left a [[HeroicBSOD catatonic, crying shell of her former self]], waiting for release. The entire PCIS, along with Tarantula, Naoko, Danbei and Junpei, shows up, with every single agent, even male ones, dressed as Honey and loudly claiming to Sister Jill to be her and begging Honey to find the will to live and fight again. She does]].
331	* IronicEcho: When Genet feels ready [[spoiler:to utter break Honey's heart revealing herself as Sister Jill, the mastermind behind her lifetime of suffering and the loss of her friends and family, she outright mocks Honey with her own catchphrase:]]
332	-->[[spoiler:"[[BigBadFriend Sometimes]] I'm Honey's friend, PCIS Special Inspector Genet. However, my real identity is Sister Jill!]]
333	* PhantomZone: Honey's Atmospheric Element Condenser Device allows her to enter {{Pocket Dimension}}s where she can fight Panther Claw's monsters with no risk of property damage. Panther Claw and its minions are also able to enter and exit the dimension at will, and are able to use it for teleportation and as a weapon.
334	* RemakeCameo: Katsuji Mori, who played Seiji Hayami from the 1973 TV series, voices Takeshi Kisaragi this time around.
335	* SadistTeacher: Miharu 'Histora' Tsuneni, as usual. She whips Natsuko so much, she's become numb to it.
336	* SecretKeeper: Natsuko is this for Honey. This often gets her in trouble with Histora[=/=]Miharu.
337	* ShownTheirWork: The ultimate form of the Silver Fleuret is a copy of the ''Seven Branched Sword'', an ancient japanese sword.
338	* SmallNameBigEgo: Octopanther claims herself to be Sister Jill's secret, powerful weapon, yet when she dies, Jill doesn't remember her at all.
339	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Sister Jill's disguise as Inspector Genet is initially effective, but by Episode 3 her contradictory behavior and apparent abandonment of Natsuko during a crisis begin to make her appear suspicious to the heroes.]]
340	* TamerAndChaster: In the live-action film adaptation Honey's main outfit looks more like an armor than the skin tight [[LeotardOfPower unitard of power]] that she wears in the original manga, and the few portions of visible skin are covered with a flesh-colored undershirt. It makes no sense considering that the original suit wasn't that revealing (Only her shoulders and [[CleavageWindow cleavage]] are exposed) and the actress playing her, Eriko Sato is a swimsuit model and even appears in some parts of the film wearing only underwear. This looks more blatant when compared to the animated opening a la Re: Cutie Honey, where drawn Honey wears a suit that barely covered her.
341	* ThoseTwoGuys: Akebi Tetora and Momomi Wareme from the PCIS. They seem to exist simply to laugh at Kogoro and Seiji, though they are at least good at their jobs enough to avoid getting fired.
342	* WhamEpisode:
343	** Episode 6 involves [[spoiler:the destruction of St. Chapel Academy and the deaths of every schoolgirl there, with the only survivors being Honey and Natsuko.]]
344	** Episode 9 has [[spoiler:the death of Natsuko.]]
345	[[/folder]]

Context Anime / CuteyHoney