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6	[[WMG:[[center:[-''Franchise/SailorMoon'' ''' [[Characters/SailorMoon Main Character Index]] '''\
7	'''[[Characters/SailorMoonMainCast Main Cast]]''': [[Characters/SailorMoonUsagiTsukino Usagi Tsukino]] \| [[Characters/SailorMoonAmiMizuno Ami Mizuno]] \| [[Characters/SailorMoonReiHino Rei Hino]] \| '''Makoto Kino''' \| [[Characters/SailorMoonMinakoAino Minako Aino]]\
8	'''Allies''': [[Characters/SailorMoonSupportingCast Supporting Cast]] \| [[Characters/SailorMoonFamiliesOfTheSailorGuardians Families of the Sailor Guardians]] \| [[Characters/SailorMoonJuubanMunicipalJuniorHighSchool Juuban Municipal Junior High School]] \| [[Characters/SailorMoonOthers Others]]\
9	'''[[Characters/SailorMoonVillains Villains]]''': [[Characters/SailorMoonDarkKingdom Dark Kingdom]] \| [[Characters/SailorMoonBlackMoonClan Black Moon Clan]] \| [[Characters/SailorMoonDeathBusters Death Busters]] \| [[Characters/SailorMoonDeadMoonCircus Dead Moon Circus]] \| [[Characters/SailorMoonShadowGalactica Shadow Galactica]]\
10	'''Other media''': [[Characters/SailorMoonMusicalOnlyCharacters Musical-Only Characters]] \| [[Characters/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]-]]]]]
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12	This page covers Makoto Kino from ''Franchise/SailorMoon''.
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15	!!Makoto Kino/Lita -- Sailor Jupiter
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23	->'''Voiced by''': Creator/EmiShinohara (first anime), Creator/AmiKoshimizu (''Crystal'' onwards) (Japanese), Creator/SusanRoman ([=DiC=] and Cloverway), Creator/AmandaCelineMiller (Viz) (English) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]] Creator/AraceliDeLeon (first anime), Creator/MarianaOrtiz (DVD Talk Box), Adriana Olmedo (''Crystal'') (Latin American Spanish), Veronika Neugebauer (German), Mandy Huydts/Creator/LauraVlasblom (Dutch), Isabel de Sá (Brazilian Portuguese, Classic), Fernanda Bulara (Brazilian Portuguese, R - Stars), Cristina Paiva (European Portuguese), Creator/DonatellaFanfani (Italian, first anime, seasons 1-3), Creator/AlessandraKarpoff (Italian, first anime, seasons 4-5), Creator/StellaMusy (Italian, R - Movie), Creator/VeronicaPuccio (Italian, ''Crystal'') [[/labelnote]]\
24	'''Portrayed in ''PGSM'' by''': Mew Azama\
25	'''Portrayed in the musicals by''': Kanoko (Noriko Kamiyama), Marie Sada, Kiwako Kanou (Takako Inayoshi), Emika Satou, Akari Tonegawa, Chiho, Emi Kuriyama, Yuriko Hayashi, Ayano Sugimoto, Kaori Sakata, Mai Watanabe, Yu Takahashi\
26	"''Guardian of Thunder and Courage, the pretty sailor suited soldier Sailor Jupiter! I'll make you feel so much regret, it'll leave you numb!''"
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28	Despite her tall, fierce appearance and terrifying reputation, Makoto is a friendly, nurturing girl who enjoys traditionally feminine pursuits like cooking in addition to fighting and working out. Often seen pining for her old ''sempai'', who rejected her in the days before she transferred to Usagi and Ami's school. She's [[TheBigGuy the physically strongest]] of the Sailor Team, and it shows.
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32	* ActionGirl: While all of the Sailor Guardians are this, it's notable that Makoto held this status even before she first transformed, fighting off bullies at her former schools, protecting Usagi from a gang of thugs, and bruising Zoisite in a battle.
33	* AdaptationDyeJob: Makoto[=/=]Sailor Jupiter had pink/strawberry-red hair in early manga art, but in both TheNineties anime and {{recursive\|Adaptation}}ly, later manga art, it's brown. ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' takes the middle ground by giving her light auburn hair.[[invoked]]
34	* AdaptationalBadass: While she is still the strongest, largest, and most skilled in hand-to-hand combat of the Guardians in the manga, she's basically a street brawler with no formal training (as she's shown losing to Haruka in a friendly UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} match). In the '90s anime she is legitimately a practitioner of Japanese martial arts and is shown practicing katas, breaking bricks, and other exercises associated with higher belt levels and even exhibits some actual techniques from time to time including in her civilian form against Youmas.
35	* AdaptationalJobChange: Well, dub dream job change to be exact. Her dream is to own a flower and cake shop, but the original English dub changed this to wanting to open her own restaurant. Why this was changed isn't clear.
36	* AllGirlsLikePonies: Horses are listed among her likes. In many cultures, horses are a symbol of power and strength.
37	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Makoto has her unrequited love for her sempai, and she has a crush on Motoki who has a girlfriend. Not so much in the live-action; she and Motoki really do get together.
38	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Her [[HugeSchoolgirl imposing stature]] and SuperStrength, combined with her insistence on standing up to bullies, meant that people assumed she was a violent girl delinquent and avoided her out of fear.
39	* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: The original English dub focused on Sailor Jupiter's tomboy aspects rather than her domestic side. Many people thought this was an improvement, even those who thought most other Guardians (other than Mercury and Saturn, who were not altered at all) were changed for the worse. This led to Sailor Jupiter becoming a favorite among American fans.
40	* ArtisticLicenseSpace: Jupiter is one of the outer planets and therefore part of the outer Solar System, but Sailor Jupiter isn't considered one of the Soldiers of the Outer Solar System. This is because she was created before the Outers were and before there was any need to divide the Sailor Guardians into groups.
41	* BadassBoast: Outside of her soldier identity, Makoto often combined this with a PreAssKickingOneLiner, particularly in the live-action series. In other versions, she varies between threatening people ridiculing others or giving them {{death glare}}s until they pay attention.
42	* BadassBystander: Her debut in the original anime. She initially appears to be just some random HugeSchoolgirl who held her own against one of the QuirkyMinibossSquad with just her bare hands. (To the viewers who ignored the clues: Her debut episode even mentioned Sailor Jupiter in the title.)
43	* BadLiar: As explained in CannotTellALie, '90s anime Makoto just doesn't have the temperament to lie.
44	* {{Ballet}}: Even before the events of episode 145, she'd had some training when she was younger, if her aptitude at figure skating on full display in episode 39 is anything to go by.
45	* BeamOWar: Jupiter and Petz engage in a lightning-flavored one. [[spoiler:Jupiter loses.]]
46	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Makoto tries hard to be feminine, and she is very encouraging and empathetic towards her fellow guardians, especially Usagi and Ami. She also destroyed multiple youma without Usagi's help, and attacked Nehellenia herself, while the other guardians were tag-teaming against Nehellenia's mirror images. She is also often the first guardian to attack a monster.
47	* BigBreastPride: Makoto's argument that she should play the lead in ''Snow White'' is that she has the largest breasts. [[note]]Changed to "most talent" in the original English dub but played straight in the Viz re-dub.[[/note]]
48	* BigDamnHeroes: In episode 8 of ''Crystal'', Moon, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter show up in time to aid Venus against Kunzite.
49	* BigEater: {{Downplayed\|Trope}}, though her side story in "Exam Battle Chapter: Makoto's Melancholy" shows her obsession with cooking and eating, and she ends up overeating from stress. Her debut episode in the anime shows her almost ordering a big bowl of curry, then changing her order as she did not want to seem indelicate.
50	* TheBigGirl: Jupiter stands out by being taller than everyone else, even the boys at her school. She knows martial arts and kicks ass both in and out of her uniform. In the manga, she outright destroys the bride youma before transforming and then kills Nephrite in one attack immediately after transforming.
51	* BigSisterInstinct: She's often the most protective to Usagi. When she's first introduced in the '90s anime, she [[CurbStompBattle effortlessly beats the crap out of a group of hooligans]] who threatened to mug Usagi.
52	* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: Sailor Jupiter is the first Guardian to die at the end of the first season of TheNineties anime. Like all the others, she gets better. Inverted in Stars's initial mini-arc, where she was the second-to-last Guardian to go down and be captured by Nehelenia. She's later released by Sailor Moon.
53	* BirdsOfAFeather: She and Usagi bond well after they become friends and have quite a bit in common, like a mutual love for food, some boy-crazy cloudcuckoolanderish tendencies... They even seem to be okay with the fact that they both have a crush on Motoki.
54	* BlessedWithSuck: Zig-zagged. She appreciates her height and strength when they come in handy, like when she's in battle, but in her day-to-day life, they're a hindrance to her because it makes people mistake her for a bully and a delinquent, and because NoGuyWantsAnAmazon.
55	* BlowYouAway: Sailor Jupiter can create hurricanes and cyclones in the manga.
56	* BreakThemByTalking: Nephrite almost gets Makoto with this lecture in Act 5, mocking her for being fooled by appearances and for believing in love. Unfortunately for Nephrite, Sailor Moon saves the day with a well-timed counterargument that inspires Makoto to fight back.
57	* BruiserWithASoftCenter: She is the physically strongest of the inner soldiers, with powerful lightning attacks to boot. She is also a HugeSchoolgirl with a reputation as a brawler. Despite her brashness, and her tendency to resort to intimidation/violence to deal with enemies and delinquents, she is a friendly, warm-hearted, generous girl who wouldn’t lay a finger on an innocent person.
58	* BullyHunter: The rumors that she had to leave her previous school for fighting were based on Makoto fighting off delinquents who picked on more vulnerable children. In her introduction in the '90s anime she curb-stomps three delinquents who attempt to mug Usagi; a flashback in the [=SuperS=] season shows that she had enough of a reputation at her previous school that a group of boys tormenting Tomoko scatter at the sight of Mako. In another episode, she nearly attacks some students who are making fun of Ami, stopping only because [[UngratefulBitch an ungrateful Ami]] begs her to.
59	* BumpIntoConfrontation: This is how she is introduced, by saving Usagi from one of these scenarios.
60	* BunnyEarsLawyer: To a lesser extent than Minako or Usagi. Her boy-craziness is exaggerated, but it doesn't stop her from being a great Guardian.
61	* ButtMonkey: Even though she's so strong, she often gets knocked down easily in a fight, and even though she's the one most determined to find love, [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon she's also the one that boys hardly ever pay attention to]].
62	* BuxomBeautyStandard: Makoto has breasts that range from visibly larger to twice the size or more ([[{{Fanservice}} depending on the scene]]) of her cohorts. At one point in the [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]], she tries to use her breast size (memetically [[DubText dubbed]] as "talent") as a qualification for the lead role in a play. Unfortunately, she can't get a boyfriend to save her life, [[HugeSchoolgirl because she stands taller than most of the boys at about 5'6"]] and [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon is physically strong and active and has a history of getting into fights]].
63	* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Jupiter power, make up!", "Jupiter star power, make up!", Jupiter Planet Power, Make up! "Jupiter crystal power, make up!"
64	* CannotTellALie: '90s anime Makoto is so earnest it means she's ''horrible'' when it comes to subterfuge and easily the worst liar of all the inner soldiers. This is best exemplified when the girls need to protect Usagi's identity from Kaolinite, so they have Minako dress up as Sailor Moon. All Makoto can do is awkwardly, and loudly, declare that Rei's proclamation that Usagi is too much of a clumsy crybaby to ever be a Sailor Soldier is true.
65	* CaringGardener: She's a very caring girl who likes growing plants, and when she goes to high school, she decides to join the gardening club to help with her dream of owning a flower and cake shop.
66	* ChafingAgainstTheDressCode: {{Subverted\|Trope}} in the manga. The teacher briefly thinks she's a {{Japanese Delinquent\|s}} because of her hair color and the fact she's still wearing her old school's uniform. [[MistakenForDyed The hair is her natural color]] and the school didn't have any uniforms sized for [[StatuesqueStunner a girl her height]].
67	* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Even before awakening to her power as Sailor Jupiter, Makoto is strong enough to lift a youma over her head and toss around muscle-bound delinquents with ease, and her reflexes are good enough to snatch Usagi out of the path of a speeding car and land a hit on Zoisite.
68	* ChefOfIron: She joins the cooking club at school.
69	* ChekhovsGun: When she is introduced in the first season of the anime, her rose-shaped earrings sparkle with reflected light. They seem insignificant until the beginning of the fifth season, when [[spoiler: Usagi is trapped in Queen Nehelenia's illusions and loses the will to press on to save Mamoru and Chibi-Usa. When Jupiter shields Usagi with her body to block Neheleni'a lightning attacks one of Jupiter's earrings falls off and Usagi finds it later; the rose shape reminds her of her love for Mamoru, and she jolts herself out of her illusion to continue to save Mamoru.]]
70	* CloseRangeCombatant: The typical example in the series. When alone, she routinely engages the enemy in hand-to-hand, and is explicitly shown to be the physically strongest (even having SuperStrength when not transformed). [[TheWorfEffect She rarely wins]].
71	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Has her moments (though not nearly as frequently as Usagi and Minako do), one being her saying a ''dog'' reminded her of her senpai.
72	* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Her parents are dead, which is used to HandWave why she lives alone. It makes it easier to keep up her double life because she doesn't have a family to hide things from.
73	* CurbStompBattle: In her introduction episode, when she sees three delinquents trying to mug Usagi, [[BullyHunter she jumps right in and single-handedly mops the floor with all three of them]].
74	* CustomUniform: Unlike the others, her tiara comes with a built-in lightning rod. In the manga, it's always present, but in the original anime, it extends when she uses it.
75	* CuteGiant: She is the biggest and toughest of the Inner Guardians, yet is absolutely adorable.
76	* DeadSerious: In the season 1 finale, the DD Girls subvert being a QuirkyMinibossSquad by successfully killing off Sailor Jupiter. The remaining Sailor soldiers are taken out in various battles with the DD Girls ([[TakingYouWithMe successfully evening the numbers mind you]]) - all to make it more poignant that Usagi face Queen Beryl alone in the second part.
77	* DeathGlare: She's known to give these in some versions to bullies and villains. [[BewareTheNiceOnes And when she does it, she means it.]]
78	* DecompositeCharacter: Meta-example. Naoko Takeuchi created a concept character called Mamoru Chino who would have appeared in ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' had she been used. This character evolved into who became Makoto Kino, but her name was given to Tuxedo Mask.
79	* DelinquentHair: She isn't actually a delinquent, but her tall height, strength, long-skirted school uniform, and naturally curly reddish hair all make her fellow students perceive her as this.
80	* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Usually PlayedForLaughs; she accidentally knocks Mamoru out while choking him for information about Motoki's girlfriend, and sends poor Ami to the ground (complete with a red handprint) with a friendly clap on the back.
81	* DubPersonalityChange: The original English dub focused more on Makoto's tomboyish side than her feminine side. This lessened her TomboyAngst as a result.
82	* EarlyBirdCameo: Act 4 of ''Crystal'' ends with her appearing.
83	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In Jupiter's debut episode, she throws her own earrings at Zoisite as if they were just a random object to toss as a distraction. Later on, it's made a point that the earrings had belonged to her mother which is why she always wore them.
84	* EarthMother: Her manga/''Crystal'' incarnation best fits this trope with her plant powers, domesticity, wanting a family and to be more girly, and being the TeamMom of the Inners. She also acts like a surrogate mom to Chibi-Usa in one chapter in the Dream arc. Her dream to own either a bakery or a flower shop is mentioned extensively.
85	* EatingLunchAlone: Her introductory story shows her eating lunch alone after transferring to Juuban because the other students are scared of her. Fortunately, the state of affairs doesn't last long once [[BigEater Usagi]] notices her.
86	* EffortlessAmazonianLift: Her debut in the anime has her throwing a grown man around like a ragdoll. She also picks up Ami during a dance and shows no physical strain, and cheerfully lifts a skater named Misha similarly when he cannot do it for her due to her weight. In the manga, her first appearance has her saving Usagi from a speeding car by picking her up and getting her out of the way with no effort.
87	* ElementalPersonalities: GreenThumb users tend to be caring and nurturing, while ShockAndAwe users are likely to be tougher and more emotional. Makoto manages to be [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak both at the same time]].
88	* EmpoweredBadassNormal: In her anime debut, she delivered a CurbStompBattle on three brawny men, left a bruise on [[{{Bishonen}} Zoisite]]'s face, and threw the MonsterOfTheWeek over her head. All of this was ''before'' she got her guardian powers.
89	* EnergyBall: Her Sparkling Wide Pressure attack takes this form.
90	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In just her debut episode, she easily [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] three street delinquents who threatened to mug Usagi, punched [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Zoisite]] in the face while trying to protect Crane Game Jo, saved Sailor Moon when Jo transformed into a Great Youma, and ''then'' got her powers.
91	* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Has a beautiful pair of rose-shaped earrings. [[spoiler:They become a ChekhovsGun in the anime, as Makoto is injured while fighting one of Nehellenia's clones but seeing her earrings on the ground snapped Usagi out of a LotusEaterMachine she was in.]] They're even stated to smell good.
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95	* FaceOfAThug: Downplayed. Makoto (Lita) isn't ugly, but her height and stature, her curly reddish hair, and the long skirt of her {{transfer student uniform\|s}} are all designed to make her look like a female delinquent (according to Japanese culture). Her KubrickStare when she's angry or serious probably doesn't help either.
96	* {{Fainting}}: The Anemia Fainting type. She gives blood up for her injured friend in one episode, and then faints while fighting. She fights through the pain to rescue Sailor Moon and defeat the youma alone.
97	* {{Fangirl}}: In ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', she and the others are fangirls of Aino Minako, an IdolSinger who also turns out to be Sailor Venus.
98	* FeetFirstIntroduction: This happens to her in her debut episode. The first part of her body we see is her foot, before the camera cuts to the lower-half of her body to finally reveal the rest of her - including her face.
99	* FeminineWomenCanCook: She actually tries to invoke this. In one episode of the third series, she secretly confides to Usagi that she only got into cooking to compensate for her tomboyishness.
100	* FieryRedhead: Subverted in the manga (where her hair is red), while people believe her to be a violent hothead, she is demure and easygoing and only fights to defeat monsters and protect her friends and innocent people.
101	* FightsLikeANormal: She is prone to try and just beat the stuff out of her enemies, both as Makoto and Sailor Jupiter. {{Justified\|Trope}} as she tended to get into brawls before getting her powers and is a confirmed martial artist.
102	* {{Flanderization}}: Falling for someone who reminds her of her old boyfriend was just part of her introduction in the original manga, but is made into a recurring part of her character in the anime.
103	* AFriendInNeed: Whatever happens, she and her best friend Shinozaki are there for each other, even in the worst of times. When Makoto's heart is broken, he comforts her. When Shinozaki is seriously injured and needs a transfusion, Makoto donates the blood herself.
104	* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: With her CanonForeigner friend Shinozaki. He's supposed to be her best friend, but he only appears in one episode out of two hundred.
105	* GenderBlenderName: "Makoto" is a unisex name, which is fitting since she's a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak.
106	* GenericCuteness: Makoto is supposedly too unattractive (read: muscular and manly looking) to retain a boyfriend and is ostracized for her appearance. Though she is shown as taller than the rest of the Inner Guardians, she appears just as slender as any other Guardian and her face shape isn't visually any different from the more "attractive" characters.
107	* GentleGiant: She's not the bully she appears to be at all, despite being unusually tall for a girl her age.
108	* GenerationXerox: As seen in Crystal, Makoto inherited most of her looks from her deceased mother.
109	* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: In the manga, while bound by an induced EpiphanicPrison, Makoto questions whether she really wants to be a guardian. She gets slapped and told off by ''her own Crystal Soldier'', and is only given her Jupiter Crystal when she realizes that protecting Sailor Moon and her fellow guardians is her true dream.
110	* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: In ''Crystal'', Makoto is seen clutching a stuffed dog while trying to get through her cold.
111	* GirlyBruiser: It's telling how much the anime runs on this trope when the most tomboyish girl in the group is still this. Makoto loves cooking and shopping and is the most boy-crazy of all the other girls, and is easily the best figure skater out of them.
112	* GoodIsNotSoft: Makoto is a sweet girl and has a motherly demeanor, but if you try to hurt her friends, ''you better run''.
113	* GoOutWithASmile: At the end of season 1 of the anime, Sailor Jupiter gives Moon a comforting smile as she dies, telling her not to be sad.
114	* GreenMeansNatural: In the original manga, Sailor Jupiter, who is color coded green in every iteration she shows up in, has much more plant and flower iconography. This is noticeable from two of her attacks, Flower Hurricane and Jupiter Oak Evolution, the former which creates a flurry of rose petals around an enemy and the latter that combines her electric and plant powers into a single ability. This would be downplayed in later adaptations to play up the association between Sailor Jupiter and Jupiter, Roman GodOfThunder.
115	* GreenThumb: In the manga, some of her attacks revolve around plants, e.g. Coconut Cyclone. Also, Jupiter Oak Evolution is an attack mostly involving oak leaves.
116	* GroundPunch: In the video game for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, she has this as a special move. It sends all enemies around her flying.
117	* HandBehindHead: Makoto did this a lot, usually when she felt uncomfortable or embarrassed. This was often the reaction after being caught out of a white lie.
118	* HeartwarmingOrphan: Once she meets the other Sailor Guardians, she makes their lives a little better by joining their TrueCompanions and becoming a TeamMom to them. And in the manga and ''Crystal'', when she opens up to Asanuma about what happened to her parents, it strengthens the bond between them and [[ShipTease implies that a romantic relationship might come of it]].
119	* HeightAngst: She knows that boys don't usually go for tall girls, much to her chagrin.
120	* HeroicBSOD: Makoto tends to fall into this when her heart is broken. Her sempai broke her heart in the past, and in ''Crystal'', when she feels it's happened again with Motoki, after Nephrite's BreakingSpeech that mocks her for believing in love, she emotionally collapses and stops fighting. Sailor Moon snaps her out of it with a ShutUpHannibal.
121	* HoistHeroOverHead: Does this a few times in the anime, including once before she even learns that she's Sailor Jupiter.
122	* HugeSchoolgirl: Maybe one of the most famous examples in the whole shoujo genre. At fourteen years old, Makoto stands 168cm or about 5'6", almost equal to the average height of an adult Japanese ''man''. Her height is intimidating to most Japanese people; the manga and Crystal show that she's tall enough to loom over one of her school's male teachers.
123	* HumanHammerThrow: In the video game for Sega Genesis, Sailor Jupiter has a move where she grabs an enemy by the legs, spins it around a few times to mow down anyone nearby, then throws it a considerable distance. It's one of the most damaging moves in the game if she can get enough spins done before throwing, and it's rather hilarious to see this done by a teenage girl.
124	* IconicItem: Makoto always wears her pink rose-shaped earrings, even after transforming into Sailor Jupiter. Sometimes she uses them as projectile weapons, and more than once the sight of them has snapped Usagi back into remembering.
125	* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Like Ami, she was lonely before she met her TrueCompanions because everyone thought she was a delinquent.
126	* IKnowMortalKombat: Inverted. Makoto is shown cleaning up at the Sailor V game despite never having played it before, and explains that it's "just like a real fight."
127	* ImplausibleHairColor: She has auburn hair. It specifically gets noted as unusual and makes people worry that she's a JapaneseDelinquent.
128	* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Kind-hearted, loving and selfless, Makoto is one of the most honorable and purehearted girls among the main cast, and you can always expect her to do what's right. Of course, [[GoodIsNotSoft that doesn't mean that she's a pushover]].
129	* ImprobableWeaponUser: She uses a wreath of oak leaves to perform her Jupiter Oak Evolution attack.
130	* InLoveWithLove: Aside from her flower and cake shop, Makoto's other dream is to be a bride someday. But she's so obsessed with the idea of being in love that she immediately lets herself get taken with every cute boy she sees. Only in the live-action does she actually get into a relationship that she takes seriously.
131	* InSeriesNickname: Her friends rarely call her Makoto, usually shortening it to Mako.
132	* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Subverted in that she never got an introduction speech. Reverted in the live-action, where she does get one: "Soldier of Thunder and Courage, Sailor Jupiter! In the name of Jupiter, I'll punish you!" Also subverted in Crystal. “I’ll fill you with regret, and leave you feeling numb”.
133	* JapaneseDelinquents: Her overall looks (very long school skirt, jewelry, wavy hair) and her bad reputation at school comes from the concept of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukeban Sukeban]] or female school rebels. Makoto was intended to be a delinquent leader who smoked, drank, and had a motorcycle gang in tow, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen but the idea was scrapped out]] and only her looks and bad rep stayed, though she's shown buying a beer from a vending machine in the manga. [[invoked]]
134	* KubrickStare: Sports a pretty intense one whenever she goes into battle in the '90s anime.
135	* KungFuWizard: Along with her [[ShockAndAwe lightning based powers]], she practices kung fu and relies a fair bit on physically attacking the enemy, and makes use of FullContactMagic.
136	* LargeHam: Creator/SusanRoman, her English voice actress, sometimes voiced her this way, especially when CallingYourAttacks.
137	* LonerTurnedFriend: Like all of the inner soldiers, she had no friends and was ostracized by her peers until she became Usagi's friend and fellow soldier.
138	* LoveAtFirstPunch: Subverted. Makoto's horrid luck with love persisted despite [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon her ability to wail on any and all bullies]]. She fared better in the [[Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon live-action adaptation]], but this trope was irrelevant in the relationship.
139	* LoveBubbles: In Act 17 of ''Crystal'', there's a romantic scene between Makoto and Asanuma where she kisses him and bubbles and sparkles are all around them.
140	* LovingAShadow: She says every guy she likes reminds her of her senpai, but considering she falls for ''every'' handsome guy she sees, one wonders whether it's true.
141	* LuminescentBlush: Sailor Mercury is knocked over in a tight alleyway to the point in which her behind is sticking up in the air. Sailor Jupiter behind her glances up her skirt notably for a long while, whilst blushing and biting her hand.
142	* LyingOnAHillside: She and Minako [[http://sailorlum.tripod.com/Smmovr04.jpg do this in the R movie.]]
143	* MadeOfIron: While protecting Usagi, she survives a barrage of black lightning blasts from the real Nehellenia, leaving Nehellenia exhausted.
144	* MamaBear: She is the Sailor Soldier of Protection, and, as such, ''will'' fight back if her friends are in danger. One of the biggest examples is in ''R'', where she snaps after seeing Sailor Moon pinned to the ground by a Cardian and defeats it singlehandedly -- despite being weak from donating blood to her friend Shinozaki (Ken in the old dub) after he was injured by the same Cardian earlier in the episode.
145	* MartialPacifist: Contrary to her reputation, she doesn't actually enjoy fighting, but if she's pushed to that point, rarely expect her to hold back.
146	* MeaningfulName: The "Ki" in "Kino" means "wood" or "tree". Her given name is written in hiragana, but sounds like the word for "sincerity"; her full name sounds the same as the Japanese phrase "sincerity of wood". She got her Canadian dub name "Lita" because it is similar to "lightning", her other elemental power. It also sounds like a variation of "Leda", which is one of the moons of Jupiter, and the mother of Helen of Troy by Zeus.
147	* MeditatingUnderAWaterfall: In an episode of '' S'', Makoto goes to train in a Buddhist temple led by a famous BareFistedMonk named Kakuzuin. At some point she catches him training like this and attempts to imitate him, but she can barely withstand few seconds under the icy water. Then Kakuzuin gets out... and sneezes, as he only managed to do it due to being ''very'' focused.
148	* MinorLivingAlone: At age fourteen, she's an orphan with her own place. How and why isn't explained.
149	* MirrorMonologue: In '' [=SuperS=]'' Sailor Jupiter's mind is increasingly befuddled in Nehellenia's lair, and she finds herself [[http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=g-7_dsPwrS4&feature=related having a conversation]] with her reflection. Her "reflection" convinces her to give up, since it controlled by the BigBad.
150	* MistakenForDyed: In early manga, when her hair was red, there were people who assumed it to be dyed red.
151	* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold:
152	** She gets unfairly painted as a {{Delinquent}}. She's also notorious for fighting at her old school, yet she only fights if someone is in danger and to fend off bullies, rather than picking fights out of belligerence or for fun.
153	** In the manga, it was explained that she transferred schools after being rejected by her senpai; her being expelled for fighting was just gossip. She also mentions feeling guided to Juban by the wind, as though she was needed there.
154	* MusclesAreMeaningless: Even though she's taller than the other guardians, she borders on CharlesAtlasSuperPower given she's not any more muscular than the other characters and can easily lift things bigger than her. On the other hand, in the Materials she is described as being "meatier than normal" (in comparison to Usagi's "a little chubby" or Rei's "slender").
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158	* NeatFreak: In the manga version. At one point, she spends ''two days'' cleaning her apartment.
159	* NewTransferStudent: Introduced this way in all versions of the series. She keeps her {{transfer student uniform\|s}} because the school doesn't have a fuku that fits her.
160	* NiceGirl: Despite her [[FaceOfAThug surly appearance]] and genuinely becoming hot-tempered when protecting her loved ones, Makoto is one of the kindest characters in the series, being a caring, encouraging mother/big sister figure to the Sailor Team, and would never hurt somebody unprovoked. An episode in the [=SuperS=] season shows her refusing to give up on an old friend's dream to write a novel.
161	* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Poor Makoto. At least the PeripheryDemographic strongly disagrees. [[invoked]]
162	* OverTheShoulderCarry: When she first appears, she saves Usagi from being hit by a car by picking her up and carrying her over her shoulder to safety.
163	* ParentalAbandonment: Her parents are dead from a plane crash. Mostly in the manga.
164	* PersonalityPowers: She has powers over both lightning and plants, fitting her dual nature as a strong fighter and a nurturing TeamMom.
165	* PetalPower: One of her manga/''Crystal'' attacks is the "Flower Hurricane".
166	* PimpedOutDress: She once wore a long, black dress, that had a large, red rose embroidered on the skirt.
167	* PinkMeansFeminine: Pink is her secondary color to show that she's a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak.
168	* PlatonicLifePartners: With the one-shot anime character Shinozaki, her former schoolmate. When Usagi asks if he is her boyfriend, she denies it; their relationship is greater than that.
169	* PowerIncontinence: While sick because of Petz's virus, Mako's body gives off static electricity, which shocks Asanuma.
170	* PreAssKickingOneLiner: In her ''Crystal'' debut, she gets one on top of her InTheNameOfTheMoon speech, throwing Nephrite's own words back in his face:
171	-->'''Sailor Jupiter:''' "Believe in love and ruin yourself? ''Bring it on!''"
172	* PrecisionFStrike: In Makoto's manga debut, when a ghost bride possessed Motoki to trick her into falling in love with him, she lets one out and hoists the ghost over her head before transforming for the first time. She also does this twice in the live action. She also says "Kuso!" (a common Japanese swear word) at least twice in the ''Sailor Moon R'' movie.
173	* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Had this happen to her while brainwashed once courtesy of Minako's kick.
174	* RaceLift: Black in the ''WesternAnimation/ToonMakersSailorMoon'' pilot.
175	* ReallyGetsAround: Every boy seems to remind her of her old crush.
176	* RedGreenContrast: With Rei. Rei is a rude, bitter, short-tempered JerkWithAHeartOfGold who controls fire, and she wears red, while Makoto is a kind, sweet, calm NiceGirl who controls thunder, and she wears green. Doubles as TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity.
177	* RedOniBlueOni: She can be either depending on who she is paired with. She is a more hot-blooded and boisterous red to Ami's calm and patient blue. Zigzagged with Usagi, Rei and Minako who are girly girls, she is the red oni out of all despite her laid back nature.
178	* RedheadInGreen: A variation. She's not a redhead in all versions or all artwork, but in ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' her hair is definitely pink and her outfit is green.
179	* RelationshipSabotage: In the first anime, Makoto is jealous that her crush, Motoki, has a girlfriend. Upon finding out that his girlfriend is tempted to accept a job abroad which would separate them for a long period of time, Makoto nicely sits down and has a talk with her, trying to convince her to take the job. She ends the talk with the suggestion that Motoki and the girlfriend could very well pick up where they left off, before lampshading to herself how terrible she is at sabotaging relationships.
180	* RescueIntroduction: Makoto is introduced saving Usagi from either getting hit by a car ([[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] and ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'') or from JapaneseDelinquents ([[Anime/SailorMoon 1990s anime]]) depending on the version.
181	* RulesOfOrphanEconomics: She seems to live without any visible means of support. {{Fanon}} often presumes a parental trust fund, but there was no mention of same in the anime or manga.
182	* RunningGag: In the 90s anime, whenever she meets a boy, she will say he reminds her of her senpai (Japanese[=/=]old boyfriend (English). Including a dog, once.
183	* SerialRomeo: She will fall for every handsome guy she sees.
184	* ShipTease: She'll crush just about any boy she sees, but a few stand out. The manga hints at a relationship between the Inners and the Shitennou, including Makoto/Nephrite. Of all her crushes, Motoki is the most common, but only in PGSM where Reika is AdaptedOut do they become an official couple. She kisses Asanuma on the forehead at one point and, though she insists that she and Shinozaki are only PlatonicLifePartners, they're ''really'' affectionate ones. She and Ami are also very close and even share a romantic-looking dance at one point. [[invoked]]
185	* ShockAndAwe: Given that Jupiter is the Roman god of lightning, this shouldn't be surprising. The anime actually exaggerated her thunder powers to the point they were the only powers she had, whereas in the manga, her powers were more often linked to [[GreenThumb plants]].
186	* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Her hair is auburn or pink (the original anime and the live-action made her a brunette, though), her eyes are green and she turns out to be one of the Sailor Guardians.
187	* SmackOnTheBack: Did this to Ami in one episode.
188	* SmittenTeenageGirl: Well known for falling in love at the drop of a hat with any reasonably good-looking guy who crosses her path. Every time, she claims that her latest crush reminders her of the senpai who broke her heart at her previous school.
189	* SomethingAboutARose: Roses are a prominent motif for Makoto. In addition to her rose earrings, they appear on her umbrella, on the bag in which she carries her lunchbox, and on her gloves, and Sailor Jupiter's Flower Hurricane attack is made up of a barrage of rose petals.
190	* SpectacularSpinning: Her Jupiter Oak Evolution attack.
191	* StatuesqueStunner: Makoto is tall for a Japanese girl, with her height being easily equal to that of many adult men and is also very beautiful and busty. Unfortunately, most people are more likely to be intimidated by her height than attracted.
192	* StepfordSmiler: She's got a remarkably positive attitude for someone who lost her parents when she was little and didn't even have friends to support her through it all.
193	* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: While she apparently has ridiculous amounts of strength in civilian form, it doesn't really show as much as it should in how fights are choreographed, and she [[TheWorfEffect tends to get taken down too easily]] when she ''does'' use it in battle.
194	* StrongFamilyResemblance: To her late mother. When a photograph of Makoto's parents appears in the manga and ''Crystal'', her mother looks like an older version of her.
195	* SuperStrength: In civilian form, has [[https://pa1.narvii.com/6298/94680a558edc10eb9ae5dc260c46f7d01729e413_hq.gif picked up and thrown man-sized enemies]] without much strain. She's the physically strongest (appropriate, given the god she's named after).
196	* SupremeChef: She's easily the best cook and baker of the main characters; Usagi immediately notices how tasty her school lunches look, and the other Inner Guardians love her cooking. She aspires to one day own her very own bakery.
197	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: She and Ami once assured Rei that they were ''not'' late to battle because Usagi was playing video games.
198	* SweetBaker: She is a kind, nurturing TeamMom who enjoys baking sweets for her friends and dreams of one day having her own bakery.
199	* TakenForGranite: In the princess training episode, Ami and Makoto pass the princess test with flying colors, but the person behind it revealed herself to be a youma who turns them and the other passing students into wax statues.
200	* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Sailor Jupiter jumps at Petz, and then does her InTheNameOfTheMoon speech... complete with gestures.
201	* TeamChef: Cooks for the other guardians on various occasions.
202	* TeamMom: Shares the role with Ami. Makoto is the one who takes care more of the cooking and housekeeping stuff and generally looks after the girls in day-to-day life.
203	* TeensLoveShopping: Shopping is one of her hobbies, and she's good at finding bargains. This aspect carries over into the live-action, although in that version, she doesn't shop for girly stuff.
204	* TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity: Doubles as a RedGreenContrast. Makoto Kino, who was painted as a delinquent due to her frightening nature, turns out to be a NiceGirl who would love to make friends and had a tragic past due to being expelled and dealing with the passing of her parents. She is even the most patient and motherly of the Inner Guardians. Rei Hino is (or was) rude, vain, snooty and snarky towards Usagi, even poking insults at he. Nonetheless, she still has a golden heart inside of her and went on better terms with her, too.
205	* ThinkNothingOfIt: Makoto does not see her kindness, or her skill, as anything worth bragging about.
206	* ThroughHisStomach:
207	** Makoto first befriends Usagi when she shares her food with her.
208	** This is how Makoto tries to impress Motoki. Unfortunately, her meal preparations are interrupted when Zoisite attacks his girlfriend Reika.
209	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Makoto is the tomboy to Ami's girly girl. It's downplayed in the manga and anime, as while they are generally close friends and foils, both are usually too much of a mix of boyish and girly traits to fit. In the live-action, though, Makoto is an outright tomboy who plays basketball and eschews girly things and Ami gets a Girliness Upgrade, complete with more feminine hair, and is now shyer than ever.
210	* TomboyAngst: Makoto is very well aware that she's not very feminine, so she tries to make up for it in other ways. She eventually gets over this.
211	* TomboyishBaseballCap: One of her outfits in the nineties anime had her wearing a baseball cap. Fittingly, she's the TomboyWithAGirlyStreak of the Inner Guardians.
212	* TomboyishPonytail: She always wears her hair in a ponytail, and she's one of the most tomboyish of the Sailor Guardians [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak despite also having a feminine side]], being the physically strongest of the group and the designated brawler. It's seen untied only once, at the beginning of the "Nurse Minako" episode.
213	* TomboyishVoice: She has a raspy, vaguely deep voice, but is largely downplayed since Makoto is both a tomboy and a girly girl in the same package.
214	* TomboyPrincess: Tall, strong, independent, good at martial arts and other sports, and the princess of her planet.
215	* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's physically the strongest of the Sailor Guardians (aside from perhaps Sailor Uranus), can beat up grown men, and was expelled from a previous school for fighting, but she's also the best cook, seamstress, and housekeeper of them, a very talented ice skater, and an aspiring florist and baker (in the English version, she wants to own her own restaurant and cook there).
216	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Meat loaf and cherry pie (though she does love ''all'' foods).
217	* TragicKeepsake: Her earrings. They belong to her mother, who was killed in a plane crash. Makoto never goes anywhere without them to remember her by.
218	* TransferStudentUniforms: {{Justified\|Trope}}; she keeps her previous one since Usagi's school does not have a big enough uniform for her. Thankfully, when they reach high school, the school has sizes that can catch up to her.
219	* TroubledButCute: Mostly in the [[Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon live-action]], where her [[OrphansOrdeal abandonment issues]] are actually a plot point and a turning point in her CharacterDevelopment.
220	* TsurimeEyes: An [[ZigZaggingTrope on-and-off]] example in the '90s anime; while her eyes normally have the same innocent rounded shape as Usagi's, when she's angry or especially determined they shift to the narrower, sharper tsurime shape to emphasize the fierceness of her expression. Notably, she's the only character who does this, while everyone else's eye shapes remain consistent, highlighting the duality of her personality.
221	* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: A purely platonic one. When Makoto's senpai rejects her on a rainy day and she runs away, Shinozaki shares his umbrella with her as he comforts her through the heartbreak.
222	* UnskilledButStrong: She's physically the strongest of the group, but also one of the easiest to take down in battle just because she doesn't have Minako's expertise as a warrior.
223	* UnusualEuphemism: One episode had Makoto argue that she was best suited for the main role in a school play, [[BuxomBeautyStandard because she had the largest breasts]]. When [=DiC=] translated it for American broadcasting, she instead claimed to have the greatest talent. However, [[DubText there was no way for them to remove the rather unambiguous gesture that accompanied the line and its original meaning]]. Since then, SM fans enjoy using the word "talent" or "being talented" for... well, having large breasts.
224	* VasquezAlwaysDies: In the original anime adaptation, Sailor Jupiter, the tomboyish Big Girl, is the first to die when they storm the Dark Kingdom towards the end of the first season. Also to be noted that all in all, the girls die out in order of usefulness. Jupiter was the strongest, so she died first. Mercury's analysis capabilities were too useful when the enemy was unknown, so she died second. Venus was the most experienced and competent so she died third. Mars was ostensibly the least suited to the situation, so she died last. And Sailor Moon was the most feminine (sort of, or at least the least competent) so she survived (again, sort of).
225	* WaifFu: While Makoto is a HugeSchoolgirl who towers over the rest of the Inners, she still counts because she's faced several enemies even taller than her. She can take down grown men when provoked and is explicitly shown studying martial arts.
226	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's afraid of flying (her parents died in a plane crash), although apparently the writers forgot about it when they put her on a plane in an episode of the final season. It was only mentioned in the manga.
227	* WindIsGreen: Green is her color, and in the manga she had a joint power of creating hurricanes, typhoons and tornadoes of flower petals and such.
228	* WorfEffect: Her great strength is one of her most defining attributes and the main asset that Sailor Jupiter brings to battle... so whenever the story needs to sell a new character as being impressively strong, it's usually done by having them beat up Makoto. She's frequently the first to be defeated by new villains, and in several instances she's reduced to jobbing for other guardians; Minako takes her out with one kick when she's brainwashed by Dark Endymion during the manga/Crystal version of the Dark Kingdom arc, and Haruka gets a one-move takedown of her early in the Infinity arc.
229	* WorfHadTheFlu: Jupiter was suffering from the virus Petz had spread throughout Tokyo in the ''Crystal'' episode where she was captured.
230	* YellowLightningBlueLightning: She is seen usually with blue lightning, but DependingOnTheArtist, it also can be seen as green lightning.
231	* YoungerThanTheyLook: At one's first glance, they may see Makoto as either the oldest of the inner guardians or maybe older than Usagi mainly because of her deep voice or being the tallest of them. However, when you look at their birthdays alogether. She is actually the youngest of the inners with Hotaru (and to an extent, Chibiusa) right in front of her being the overall youngest.
232	* YoureNotMyType: She's been on the receiving end of this several times. In her introductory episode in the 1990s anime adaptation, crush ''du jour'' Game Machine Joe states that [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon he's not into tall, strong girls like her]]; Makoto admits that the senpai who broke her heart said the same thing, and it's shown to be a recurring source of pain for her in this and later episodes.
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