| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''Franchise/SailorMoon'' ''' [[Characters/SailorMoon Main Character Index]] '''\ |
| 2 | '''[[Characters/SailorMoonMainCast Main Cast]]''': [[Characters/SailorMoonUsagiTsukino Usagi Tsukino]] | [[Characters/SailorMoonAmiMizuno Ami Mizuno]] | [[Characters/SailorMoonReiHino Rei Hino]] | [[Characters/SailorMoonMakotoKino Makoto Kino]] | [[Characters/SailorMoonMinakoAino Minako Aino]]\ |
| 3 | '''Allies''': [[Characters/SailorMoonSupportingCast Supporting Cast]] | [[Characters/SailorMoonFamiliesOfTheSailorGuardians Families of the Sailor Guardians]] | [[Characters/SailorMoonJuubanMunicipalJuniorHighSchool Juuban Municipal Junior High School]] | [[Characters/SailorMoonOthers Others]]\ |
| 4 | '''[[Characters/SailorMoonVillains Villains]]''': [[Characters/SailorMoonDarkKingdom Dark Kingdom]] | [[Characters/SailorMoonBlackMoonClan Black Moon Clan]] | [[Characters/SailorMoonDeathBusters Death Busters]] | '''Dead Moon Circus''' | [[Characters/SailorMoonShadowGalactica Shadow Galactica]]\ |
| 5 | '''Other media''': [[Characters/SailorMoonMusicalOnlyCharacters Musical-Only Characters]] | [[Characters/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]-]]]]] |
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| 7 | This page covers the Dead Moon Circus, a group of villains in ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. |
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| 10 | [[header:Dead Moon Circus]] |
| 11 | The main antagonists of the fourth story arc of ''Sailor Moon.'' In the time of the Silver Millennium there existed a queen of darkness who ruled in the shadows of queen Serenity. Queen Nehellenia desired the power of queen Serenity and plotted to take over the Silver Millennium and rule as the one true queen of the moon. However Serenity put a stop to Nehellenia's plans and, as punishment, Nehellenia was sealed inside the shadow of the new moon for all time. Eventually however the Silver Millennium fell and Serenity died and Nehellenia merely bid her time until her return. Eventually, during an eclipse, Nehellenia and her servants were able to slip out of their prison and hid in plain sight as a circus. The Dead Moon Circus seeks to gain control of Earth to spite their long dead rivals and turn it into a world of shadows. In order to do this they require the Golden Crystal that the priest of Elysion, Helios, is holding in his possession. |
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| 13 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 14 | |
| 15 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 16 | * AdaptationalHeroism: As stated previously, quite a few of the villains were either softened or reformed in the first anime. The Dead Moon Circus, however, takes this trope to extremes: literally the only villain aside from the Lemures who ''doesn't'' make a HeelFaceTurn by the end of the show is Zirconia. And since she and Queen Nehellenia are one and the same, technically she did! |
| 17 | * AlienFairFolk: The Dead Moon may be extraterrestrial, but otherwise fit TheFairFolk perfectly. Appearance-wise, they all have PointyEars, an Insectoid AnimalMotif and HellishPupils; in practice, they're [[MonsterClown outwardly playful]] with a massive LackOfEmpathy and [[WouldHurtAChild tend to target teenagers and children]]. It's most obvious with Queen Nehellenia, whose characterization and actions evoke several evil fairies from classic fairytales. |
| 18 | %%* BrightIsNotGood: Hoo boy. |
| 19 | * CircusOfFear: And how. It's their gimmick to be a creepy circus. |
| 20 | * CrapsaccharineWorld: Sorta. It's a shiny, pretty, magical place that gives you lots of fun when you're attending its shows, but once you learn what's truly inside... aaaaaahhhhhhh!! |
| 21 | * DubNameChange: Known as “the forces of the Dark Moon” in the Cloverway dub. |
| 22 | * LackOfEmpathy: Amongst all the major characters. It comes from emphasizing a state of perpetual youth. |
| 23 | * MadnessMantra: "Never ever forget to remember, a child's dream is a dream forever. Never ever forget to remember, a child's dream is a dream forever. Never ever forget to remember, a child's dream is a dream forever. [[BrokenRecord Never ever forget to remember, a child's dream is a dream forever.]] [[NightmareFuel Never ever forget to remember, a child's dream is a dream forever...]]" |
| 24 | ** In the Viz dub, this becomes: "Always remember not to forget, a child's dream is a dream they should never get." |
| 25 | ** The first anime, in the original Japanese, has "Dream, dream, don't doubt it. A dream of dreams that dreaming children have." |
| 26 | ** The Cloverway dub had two: |
| 27 | *** The first was "Don't dream that you're all grown up! Big dreams are best just for kids." |
| 28 | *** The second was perhaps the most disturbing out of all of them: "Never doubt the power of innocent dreamers, never doubt the dreams of innocent children, never doubt your worst nightmare. Never doubt the power of innocent dreamers, never doubt the dreams of innocent children, never doubt your worst nightmare...!" |
| 29 | *** Nehellenia did her own variant in the Cloverway dub after she succumbs to her mirror's influence: |
| 30 | ---->'''Queen Nehellenia''': I shall never doubt the power of innocent dreamers. I shall never doubt the dreams of innocent children. I shall never doubt my worst nightmare. I will ''use'' the power of innocent dreams. I will ''use'' the dreams of innocent dreamers. I will preserve my dream. ''My worst nightmare will be somebody else's!'' |
| 31 | * ObviouslyEvil: You know something isn't good when it's called "Dead Moon." And nearly everything affiliated with the circus is named "Dead Moon ________." This is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the manga, when Minako gets a flyer for talent auditions from the "Dead Moon Talent Agency" and the Guardians immediately figure out it's a trap. |
| 32 | * StrawNihilist: They like to wax poetic about the foolishness of humanity and the worthlessness of dreams. Helios calls them "the remnants of dreams discarded by people who forgot what it means to dream." |
| 33 | [[/folder]] |
| 34 | |
| 35 | !Leaders |
| 36 | [[folder:Queen Nehellenia]] |
| 37 | !!Queen Nehellenia |
| 38 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/queennehelenia_6368.jpg https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_8_07.png]] |
| 39 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/YoshikoSakakibara as an adult and Creator/WakanaYamazaki as a child (JP), Nanao Arai (Eternal) (JP), Lisa Dalbello (Cloverway), Creator/LauraPost (Viz) (EN) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]] Sylvia Garcel ([=LatAm=]), Creator/IsabelWolmar (PT) [[/labelnote]]\ |
| 40 | '''Portrayed in the musicals by''': Kaori Ishikawa |
| 41 | ---- |
| 42 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Queen Nehellenia was still evil in the anime, but only because she was misled, and she was eventually redeemed and granted a second chance at life in ''Stars''. In the manga, she was evil incarnate (a spawn of Chaos), responsible for the death of the Moon Kingdom ''and'' the current calamity, and was destroyed by Usagi and Mamoru. |
| 43 | * AllegoricalCharacter: ''[=SuperS=]'' makes her the embodiment of [[StrawNihilist childish nihilism]], though her additional backstory in ''Stars'' muddles this a bit. |
| 44 | * ArcVillain: Nehellenia acts as the main antagonist of the first six episodes of ''Stars'' after she is freed from her prison before she is replaced by Galaxia as the season's true BigBad. |
| 45 | * BeautyIsBad: Actually a major plot point in Nehellenia's case. In the 90s anime, her fear of losing her youthful looks and becoming a withered crone eventually led her to [[spoiler:consuming the dream mirrors of all her loyal subjects on her star to retain her looks and transformed them into Lemures/Remless.]] |
| 46 | * BerserkButton: Her biggest button is when she sees that people are pitying her, or rather, when she can see the look of pity in their eyes. She ''loses it'' and goes on a rampage. She especially can't stand it when Sailor Moon pities her. |
| 47 | -->'''Nehellenia''': I don't want pity or sympathy! Not from you! ''NOT FROM YOU!'' |
| 48 | * BigBad: The main antagonist of the fourth season. |
| 49 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: In ''[=SuperS=]'', Nehellenia was preyed upon by an evil mirror, which [[MoreThanMindControl used her fear of growing old and ugly]] to convince her that eating pure dreams was the only way to be eternally young forever. |
| 50 | * ClippedWingAngel: Happens in the manga when the newly powered-up Eternal Sailor Moon attacks her. [[spoiler: This causes her to wither into the [[HumanoidAbomination insect-like]] being she really is (it is clearly resembling Zirconia in Nehellenia's dress wearing a wig over her hat).]] |
| 51 | * {{Curse}}: In the manga, after being banished from the Princess's christening by Queen Serenity, she foresees and declares that Princess Serenity will never inherit the throne of the Silver Millennium. |
| 52 | * DemotedToExtra: Zigzagged. On one hand, she actually reappears physically in ''Sailor Stars'' and serves as the ArcVillain of the first six episodes whereas her manga counterpart disappeared after her defeat at the end of the Dream arc. On the other hand, her connection to [[GreaterScopeVillain Chaos]], as well as her actions in the destruction of the Silver Millennium, are removed in the '90s anime, which makes her a little more irrelevant to the overall MythArc of the series. |
| 53 | * DisproportionateRetribution: When she returns in ''Sailor Stars'', Nehellenia wants to destroy Usagi's life, kidnap her friends and lover, and erase Usagi's child out of existence just because Usagi's life is better than hers, even though everything wrong with Nehellenia's existence is her own fault and possibly that of her mirror's corruptive influence. |
| 54 | -->'''Nehellenia''': I will guide everything you love to destruction. |
| 55 | * DontYouDarePityMe: In the '90s anime, every time someone looks at her in pity, [[BerserkButton it sends her into a screaming fit of insanity]]. |
| 56 | --> '''Nehellenia''': ''Why do you continue to look at me with sympathy in your eyes? You should hate me! '''Go on! I know you want to'''!'' |
| 57 | %%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette |
| 58 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Even as she seeks to punish Sailor Moon by taking away her loved ones, the strength of [[ThePowerOfLove their]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship bonds]] is completely beyond her. Best put after Sailor Moon jumps after Chibi Moon. |
| 59 | -->'''Nehellenia:''' The fool. She's thrown away her dreams and her future for someone that she loves. |
| 60 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 61 | ** She and her kingdom of the Dead Moon are the shadow selves of Queen Serenity and the Silver Millennium. The fan theory that she is Queen Serenity's sister is, however, explicitly ''not'' true, in both the anime and the manga. |
| 62 | ** The '90s anime however makes her serve as a dark mirror for Usagi herself. Much like Usagi Nehellenia can be childish and selfish and, as shown during ''[=SuperS=]'', both have a desire to hold on to their youth and shirk off their responsibilities. However the major distinction is shown at the end of the season wherein [[spoiler:Nehellenia chooses to return to her isolation inside her mirror in order to stay young and youthful forever whereas Usagi chooses to plunge into an unknown future in order to stay with her friends and family.]] |
| 63 | * EvilIsPetty: Is she ''ever''. All of her actions stemmed from her desperate attempt to stop herself from getting older, and when Sailor Moon put a stop to those plans Nehellenia has resorted to attempting to murder Chibi-Usa as payback. |
| 64 | -->'''Nehellenia''': You people took away from me the thing I cherished most of all. Well, now I'm going to return the favor by taking away what you cherish most. |
| 65 | * EvilLaugh: In both the original Japanese version and the English dubs. It's particularly unhinged in the Cloverway dub, especially when she breaks free of her mirror. |
| 66 | * {{Expy}}: WordOfGod compares the Manga Nehellenia to the evil fairies/witches of old fairy tales who curse the main protagonist. One example would be Maleficent from ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''. With her magic mirror and vanity, the comparison to the Evil Queen from ''Literature/SnowWhite'' is also obvious. Her arc in the ''Stars'' season of the anime is based on ''Literature/TheSnowQueen''. |
| 67 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She'll steal the dreams of her subjects and others just so that she can stay young forever. Although her subjects being all shades of crazy after the transformation may have the opposite reaction. |
| 68 | * GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: In the anime, after the MagicMirror shows her that she won't retain her beauty and everyone will abandon her.]] |
| 69 | * GreenEyedMonster: She wants to do everything she can to make Sailor Moon hurt because she's ''deeply'' envious of the happiness Usagi has with her friends. |
| 70 | * HellishPupils: Her pupils turned into golden slits after she started eating the dreams of her people. In some instances they glow red. |
| 71 | * HumanoidAbomination: What she really is in the manga. |
| 72 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Stars'' Eternal Sailor Moon uses her power to make Nehellenia remember her true dream from when she was a child before it was corrupted by her intense desire to stay young and youthful, a desire to find people out there who could care about her and not put her on a pedestal.]] |
| 73 | * IRejectYourReality: In the manga, Nehellenia claims to be the rightful ruler of earth and the proper owner of the Ginzuishou, and her invasion is ostensibly to claim her rights. [[InsaneTrollLogic No meaningful debate exists regarding the legitimacy of the Serenity dynasty and the Ginzuishou is their family's collective soul]]. |
| 74 | ** Exaggerated during the season finale. [[spoiler: Nehellenia desperately insists that she will take the hand of Prince Endymion and rule the Solar System... [[AlmostDeadGuy as she's dissolving into nothing]] following Eternal Sailor Moon's new FinishingMove]]. |
| 75 | * KnightOfCerebus: In the anime, while the season she's in is mostly comedic, she's the only villain that is played completely seriously with no comedic quirks, and the fifth season is initially more serious because of her involvement. |
| 76 | * LadyOfBlackMagic: She's regal as Queen of the Dead Moon, and can cast energy waves of darkness. |
| 77 | * LonelyRichKid: The ''Stars'' anime shows her as one of these, before she became a VainSorceress. |
| 78 | * MadnessMantra: "Always remember, and never forget. A child's dream is a dream they should never get." Stated by Zirconia first, but then she starts to repeat it just before she slaughtered all of her subjects. |
| 79 | * MagicMirror: One of the uber examples. |
| 80 | * MotiveDecay: When Nehellenia is introduced in ''[=SuperS=]'' she is shown to want to create a world of darkness and take over planet Earth, both to spite the fallen Silver Millennium, and also to eventually take over the universe. After her defeat at the end of ''[=SuperS=]'' and her return in ''Stars'' her entire motivation revolves around making Usagi suffer and destroy everything she loves. |
| 81 | * MultipleChoicePast: Was she corrupted by her mirror? Or were her actions her own? Who sealed her away, Queen or Princess Serenity? Chances are we'll never know. |
| 82 | * OmnicidalManiac: |
| 83 | ** The anime version is fairly close, as her dream-stealing turns people into [[EmptyShell living dead]], and she intends to implement it everywhere. |
| 84 | ** Is also this in the manga given her power corrupting the Earth would likely kill everything on it. |
| 85 | * PsychopathicManChild: All her motivations (fear of aging, revenge on Helios for not being able to have him, murderous jealousy of Sailor Moon for having what she doesn't have) stem from her stunted maturity. |
| 86 | -->"[[MadnessMantra Always remember not to forget, a child's dream is a dream they should never get]]. Fine then! I will continue to live alone! All alone! But I will be young and beautiful forever!" (''[[LaughingMad laughs]] as she's sealed away into her prison'') |
| 87 | * RedemptionEarnsLife: [[spoiler: In the 90s anime, Sailor Moon returns her to her childhood when Nehellenia gives up and asks her if she can "Do it over again", effectively giving her another chance in life and making her a prospective High Queen who will likely rule over her planet wisely.]] |
| 88 | * {{Sadist}}: The flip side to her hatred of people looking at her in pity is seeing them look at her with anger and hatred in their eyes. After Chibi-Usa fades out of existence in Usagi's arms, Nehellenia savors with absolute glee the look of rage in Usagi's eyes. |
| 89 | -->'''Usagi''': What did Chibi-Usa ever do to you? SHE DIDN'T DESERVE ANY OF THIS! |
| 90 | -->'''Nehellenia''': Look at those eyes! Do you despise me? |
| 91 | * SchrodingersCast: Perhaps the biggest case of it in the series. Her backstory and nature is completely different in the anime than it was in the manga, where she's explicitly tied with the Moon Kingdom, the original BigBad (her curse on the Moon Kingdom resulted in Metalia destroying it later) ''and'' the series' GreaterScopeVillain. |
| 92 | * SealedEvilInACan: The "can" in this case being a MagicMirror. |
| 93 | * SelfServingMemory: [[spoiler:Nehellenia's past has been explored four times in the anime, and each time was from her memories. The first time showed her looking more like Queen Serenity, saying that Serenity sealed her away in the darkness for trying to steal the Golden Crystal and take over the moon. The second time showed Nehellenia before her mirror showed a future where she was old and alone in a kingdom of dust and cobwebs, leading into her planet's genocide to keep her young. The third and fourth times are where the contradictions come in, as Sailor Moon's pity makes her remember "the last time" Usagi looked at her like that, and we're then treated to a flash of Princess Serenity with wings and the Golden Crystal. The fourth time is when Nehellenia remembers herself as a young girl when her mirror first started to corrupt her. Due to Nehellenia's rants about how the White Moon Princess locked her in darkness, the contradictions between whether it was Queen or Princess Serenity who sealed her away, her Serenity-like gown, it's hard to tell whether or not Nehellenia was corrupted by her mirror. Chances are she's so old she probably doesn't truly remember and is projecting her feelings now into her memories to convince herself she is the injured party, when all this time she's lashing out at Sailor Moon because she's jealous of everything she has and wants to destroy her. The moon cats barely even remember Nehellenia and only heard of her in passing back during the Silver Millennium, so it seems Nehellenia's power grab may have been a good while before Queen Serenity had her daughter.]] |
| 94 | ** [[spoiler: There's a more blatant moment of this in episode 172. Nehellenia begins screaming about how Sailor Moon sealed her away into the new moon, and we're suddenly given a scene of a terrified Nehellenia inside the mirror being sucked into the new moon. That doesn't sync up at all with episode 166, where she gladly went back into her mirror prison and laughed all the way. The Viz dub of 172 has her directly state she was sealed away by the White Moon Queen, though.]] |
| 95 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: In the 90s anime. Potentially. [[spoiler:It's not clear if the ending indicates the past was changed when her mirror was destroyed, Nehellenia and her kingdom were reborn thanks to the combined power of the Guardians and the Silver Crystal, or Nehellenia died and her heaven is based on her childhood.]] In the manga and ''Eternal'', [[spoiler:she is turned to dust along with her mirror]]. |
| 96 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Nehellenia? Neherenia? Nephrenia? Nephelina? The first and last are likely candidates, since there's a mineral called Nepheline, which would fit with Sailor Moon's usual villain naming, but there's also [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalennia an ancient goddess named Nehalennia]], which is how the credits and subtitles of Eternal spell her name. The most common spelling for her name, including the manga, is Nehelenia. |
| 97 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: Her eyes used to be blue, but after turning evil they became cat-like and golden. |
| 98 | * ThemeNaming: Nepheline is a kind of feldspar. |
| 99 | * ThisWasHisTrueForm: At the end of the Dead Moon Arc in the manga and Crystal, [[spoiler: Eternal Sailor Moon's attack fatally injures Nehellenia. As she disentigrates, her [[{{Glamour}} illusory]] HotWitch form withers away, showing that she really looks exactly like [[InsectoidAliens Zirconia]]. So much for the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman...]] |
| 100 | * UnreliableExpositor: Nehellenia's past gets muddled the more that is revealed about it causing a variety of contradictions to be present. For instance, in ''[=SuperS=]'' she insists that Queen Serenity was the one that sealed her within the New Moon, but come ''Stars'' she now says that it was Princess Serenity who did so. This is likely because, apart from being insane, Nehellenia has a complete inability to [[NeverMyFault admit to her faults]] and is constantly shifting blame on who she thinks wronged her at the time. The Viz dub attempts to make this easier to understand when it has Nehellenia say the White Moon ''Queen'' sealed her away in 172. |
| 101 | * VainSorceress: What caused her to become evil in the first place in the anime. [[spoiler: Borderline deconstructed in that her obsession with staying beautiful has actively ruined her life, and seems to be the keystone to her self-worth. In the end of the fourth season, she explicitly admits she'd prefer [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere eternal isolation]] if it means she'll never be ugly.]] |
| 102 | * VillainousGlutton: In a sense, her anime counterpart is this. When she learned the secret to maintaining her beauty involved using the dreams of her people, the translations vary between her having used the energy from those dreams or her having ''eaten'' their dreams. In any case, she took the dreams of every living thing on her planet. |
| 103 | * WantsToBeHated: She despises when people look upon her with pity, so she would rather be hated instead thus inspiring many of her villainous actions. |
| 104 | * WeakenedByTheLight: In the anime due to her being imprisioned in her Mirror for so long Queen Nehellenia has lost her ability to withstand the light of the world (cause her horrible pain)as such she can only reside in places that are in complete darkness or on her home world. |
| 105 | * WomanScorned: She desired Helios, and when he turned her down imprisoned his body in crystal and searched the world for his soul. |
| 106 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: What Anime Nehellenia is revealed to be at the end of the [=SuperS=] season. Under her archetypal wicked queen exterior, there's an extremely miserable and angry old woman who is desperately clinging to a dying dream of staying beautiful so she'll be loved and admired, and lashing out in her pain and bitterness at those whose happiness she is jealous of and wants for herself. In ''Stars'', it reveals she was a LonelyRichKid who learned to love herself and her own beauty more than anything else due to the MagicMirror, which is why she cannot stand the thought of losing her youthful beauty.]] |
| 107 | * WouldHurtAChild: In episode 166, she throws an unconscious Chibi Moon off the floating pedestal with her mirror just to make Sailor Moon suffer. |
| 108 | -->'''Nehellenia''': How does it feel losing someone you love? Losing your happy future? Now you know the despair I felt. |
| 109 | [[/folder]] |
| 110 | |
| 111 | [[folder:Zirconia]] |
| 112 | !!Zirconia |
| 113 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Zirconia_340.gif https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_zirconia.png]] |
| 114 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/HisakoKyoda (first anime), Naomi Watanabe (Eternal) (JP), Robert Bockstael (Cloverway), Creator/BarbaraGoodson (credited as Janis Carol) (Viz) (EN) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]] Guadalupe Noel ([=LatAm=]), António Semedo (PT) [[/labelnote]]\ |
| 115 | '''Portrayed in the musicals by''': Keiko Iseki |
| 116 | ---- |
| 117 | * AnimalMotifs: Zirconia's helmet resembles' a snail, and what little we see of her arms and neck suggests she has some chitinous plating. |
| 118 | * BadBoss: She essentially has the Amazon Trio and Amazoness Quartet do all the work for her and is constantly berating them for failing. In the Cloverway dub, Nehelenia makes it clear she's tired of Zirconia dumping all the blame on their minions and essentially destroys Zirconia when Nehelenia has to get the Golden Crystal herself. |
| 119 | -->'''Nehelenia''': So tell me something Zirconia. What is your greatest pleasure? Huh? |
| 120 | -->'''Zirconia''': That's easy your majesty. My greatest pleasure is seeing your presence before me in this mirror every day. |
| 121 | -->'''Nehelenia''': And seeing me every day you must've noticed that until now, I was not a happy queen. |
| 122 | -->'''Zirconia''': I-[[OhCrap huh?]] |
| 123 | -->'''Nehelenia''': And the main cause of that unhappiness was not once were you good at ''DOING YOUR JOB!'' |
| 124 | -->'''Zirconia''': It, ah, was just a slump! |
| 125 | -->'''Nehelenia''': A ''permanent'' slump, Zirconia! I'd say it's been a pleasure, but a queen's got an image. You're fired! FOREVER! |
| 126 | * BreathWeapon: See that face-shaped pattern on the front of her robe? In the anime, it serves as a medium for Nehellenia to talk through, but in the manga it has a far more sinister purpose, [[spoiler: since she locks the Guardians in a nightmare in which the "face" fires lasers that seemingly kills Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask]]. The sequence that follows probably contains some of the most [[BodyHorror gruesome]] imagery in the Sailor Moon saga. |
| 127 | * ChildHater: She despises the Amazoness Quartet. When Nehellenia finally decides to pull a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on them, Zirconia is gleeful at the chance to finally be rid of them. |
| 128 | * ComicBookFantasyCasting: The old dub went for [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]], the new dub went for [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Rita Repulsa]]. |
| 129 | * TheDragon: To Nehellenia, [[MindScrew despite them apparently being the same person.]] |
| 130 | * EldritchAbomination: By all means, she should not exist, yet does. |
| 131 | * EvilOldFolks: She looks like a crone who's so old she's insect-like. |
| 132 | * {{Gonk}}: Behold, the one unattractive character in all of Sailor Moon! |
| 133 | * HateSink: She is straightforwardly unsympathetic and deliberately so, slavishly devoted to Nehelenia and blaming all her failures on their underlings while lacking any of the depth and cunning the others villains have. |
| 134 | * LargeHam: Is often seen screaming and ranting at the top of her lungs at the Trio and Quartet (''especially'' the Quartet, who don't tend to listen.) The scenery often ''shakes'' when she does so. |
| 135 | * LiteralSplitPersonality: While they have verifiably separate minds in the 90's anime, it's hard to tell in ''any'' continuity where Nehellenia's existence ends and Zirconia's begins. At the very least, Zirconia has agency in the outside world that Nehellenia depends upon prior to her release. |
| 136 | * ShesAManInJapan: Reversed; Zirconia is a woman in Japan, but was bizarrely made male in the English dub, with a [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] Yoda-esque voice. She is also a male in the Portuguese dub, with a deep voice similar to an old man. |
| 137 | * StarfishCharacter: In the Anime Zirconia is the physical manifestation of Nehellenia's desires for ultimate power and eternal beauty as well as her fears of growing old and ugly, created to carry out her will. In the Manga she acts on Queen Nehellenia's behalf while the queen is in her mirror, but vanishes once Nehellenia takes direct action outside. [[spoiler:Since Nehellenia's true appearance is identical to Zirconia, it's shown they are truly the same being.]] |
| 138 | * SurroundedByIdiots: Makes no secret of her exasperation with her minions. |
| 139 | * ThemeNaming: After gemstone zircon. |
| 140 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In the Cloverway dub, the context behind Zirconia's destruction is changed to Nehellenia deciding she's had enough of his uselessness after she acquired the Golden Crystal, something ''he'' was supposed to do. Which makes it more fitting after he tried to murder both the Amazon Trio ''and'' the Amazon Quartet by pulling this trope on them. |
| 141 | [[/folder]] |
| 142 | |
| 143 | !The Amazoness Quartet |
| 144 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 145 | !!The Amazoness Quartet (Cere Cere the Illusionist, Palla Palla the Ball Balancer, Jun Jun the Acrobat, Ves Ves the Tamer) |
| 146 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AmazonessQuartet_4733.jpg https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_amazoness_quartet.png]] |
| 147 | [[caption-width-right:350:Top image, L-R: Ves Ves, Palla Palla, Jun Jun and Cere Cere.\ |
| 148 | Click [[labelnote:here]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_3700.png[[/labelnote]] to see them as [[spoiler:Sailor Guardians]]]] |
| 149 | Four performers who take over searching for the Dream Mirrors when the Amazon Trio are defeated. [[spoiler:In the manga, they’re revealed to be four more Sailor Guardians who were assigned to protect Chibiusa.]] |
| 150 | ---- |
| 151 | * EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:They help battle Shadow Galactica towards the end of ''Stars'', when the core sailor soldiers have been killed and Usagi is running perilously low on allies.]] |
| 152 | * AbortedArc: In the 90s anime, they say they will meet the Sailor Guardians again, suggesting they will reappear like they did in the manga, but this never comes to fruition. |
| 153 | * AdaptationalModesty: Their outfits are slightly less {{Stripperiffic}} in the 90s anime than they are in the manga; Ves Ves, Palla Palla and Cere Cere wear tights and Jun Jun's pants don't show her hips, which cover up their lower bodies a bit more. |
| 154 | * AgeInappropriateDress: All of their outfits are extremely revealing, with Palla Palla's outfit being the most modest. |
| 155 | * AnimeHair: Especially Jun Jun's. |
| 156 | * BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:They reappear to back up Chibiusa's BigDamnHeroes attempt near the end of the ''Stars'' arc.]] |
| 157 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the manga where they are the Sailor Quartet and had been placed in a deep sleep somewhere within the Amazon Jungle, awaiting the time when they could become the future protectors of Sailor Chibi Moon. Queen Nehelenia woke them prematurely and forced them to work for her. |
| 158 | * BrilliantButLazy: The Quartet are a bunch of lazy children who would rather play around than follow Zirconia's orders but they are shown to be both powerful and smart when they actually do bother to get work done. In their first episode Ves Ves almost overwhelms Zirconia with her strength alone and Zirconia realises that, if they actually bothered to all fight together, she would be in serious trouble. |
| 159 | * CircusBrat: Their attacks are derived from circus skills, with each having a specific talent. |
| 160 | * ClarkKenting: Moreso than usual, especially Palla Palla who refers to herself at all times by her own name, whether in "disguise" or not, which is significant, because the Guardians come to know her both in and out of disguise, but never connect the dots. |
| 161 | * ColorCodedCharacters: They each have a prominent color motif in their hair and outfits: Cere Cere is pink, Palla Palla is blue, Jun Jun is green, and Ves Ves is red. In the manga, [[spoiler:they keep those same color schemes in their Sailor Guardian uniforms]]. Aside from Cere Cere, they also share this color with the Guardian Soldier they foil. Though Cere's may be a refence to [[spoiler:Minako's days as Sailor V, as her costume in those days used the same Red/White/Blue major colors as Sailor Moon, while Cere Cere is Pink, like her actual leader, Sailor Chibi Moon]] |
| 162 | * CombinationAttack: Their only known attacks as [[spoiler: Sailor Guardians]] in the manga manifest as this: The four of them together creates Amazoness Jungle Arrow. When working with [[spoiler: their leader, Sailor Chibi Moon]] they use Pink Ladies' Freezing Kiss. |
| 163 | * CreepyChild: All of them, but especially Palla Palla. |
| 164 | * TheDogBitesBack: In the '90's anime [[spoiler:after Nehellenia allows Zirconia to almost kill them the Quartet decide to get their revenge on their old boss by stealing the Golden Crystal from Nehellenia's hands and giving it to Sailor Moon which leads to the Queen's defeat.]] |
| 165 | * FourGirlEnsemble: Jun Jun and Ves Ves share the mannish role, Palla Palla is the childlike one, Cere Cere is the glamorous girl but [[TeamMom tries to be mature too]]. |
| 166 | * TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: What their bickering with each other ultimately is at the end of the day. Even though it's rarely stated, the Quartet are, in fact, sisters. |
| 167 | * GrowingUpSucks: To them, childhood means having your entire future ahead of you and freedom without responsibility while adulthood means taking on obligations and accepting that some dreams are genuinely impossible. [[note]] The Quartet invokes ''Literature/TheFrogPrince'' during their MotiveRant [[RuleOfSymbolism but blatantly miss the moral]], equating adulthood with [[LossOfIdentity losing yourself]] and ignoring how its also [[CharacterDevelopment how you become more than you'd been before]]. [[/note]] |
| 168 | * HeelFaceTurn: In both the anime ''AND'' the manga, albeit in two different ways. In the anime they realize how they were used, break from Nehellenia's control, and steal the Golden Crystal back from Zirconia. In the manga, [[spoiler: they had been BrainwashedAndCrazy, so Neo-Queen Serenity healed them and restored their Guardian powers.]] |
| 169 | * LivingMacGuffin: In ''[=SuperS=]'' Nehellenia reveals to the Quartet, [[spoiler:while she is betraying them]], that their youthful energy is what powers the Dead Moon Circus implying that this is why the four were recruited in the first place. [[spoiler:The fact that they are also future Sailor Guardians probably helps as well.]] |
| 170 | * MagicalGirl: [[spoiler:All four are actually Sailor Guardians who are charged with protecting Sailor Chibi Moon. They're really Sailor Ceres, Sailor Pallas, Sailor Juno and Sailor Vesta, the Guardians of the first four asteroids to be discovered in the asteroid belt. But only in the manga.]] |
| 171 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: While the Quartet are shown to be very loyal to Nehellenia for the majority of the arc [[spoiler:after Zirconia starts draining them of their collective powers Nehellenia tells them that she only ever tolerated them because their youthful energy was tied into powering the Dead Moon Circus and that they no longer have any value to her. After Sailor Moon convinces the Quartet to destroy their stones, the objects that connect them to the Dead Moon Circus and thus are what is allowing Zirconia to absorb their energy, the girls decide to [[TheDogBitesBack get their revenge on their old boss.]]]] |
| 172 | * NeverGrewUp: In ''[=SuperS=]'', the Quartet were recruited by the Dead Moon when they were children and their aging was halted [[spoiler:by the stones that they wield in combat]]. The Quartet themselves view the idea of aging and growing up as weird since it means giving up your dreams and taking on responsibilities. [[spoiler:After Sailor Moon convinces them that they still can have their dreams even as they grow older the four shatter their stones, breaking their connection with Nehellenia, and thus allowing them to age again.]] |
| 173 | * PinballProjectile: How they extract the dream mirrors. They use cue sticks to launch their orbs, which ricochet around the area until they hit the victim. |
| 174 | * ThePsychoRangers: Following the Four Heavenly Kings, The Ayakashi Sisters and the Witches 5 from previous arcs, the Quartet is this to the 4 Guardian Soldiers. Each Amazon is a direct inversion of her Guardians counterpart (at least in the manga). Cere Cere is calm and refined where Minako is scatterbrained and hyper, Jun Jun is bullying where Makoto is nurturing, Ves Ves is out of control where (manga) Rei is coldly composed, and Palla Palla is childish and ditzy where Ami is mature and brilliant. Becomes a much more literal example when in the Manga and Eternal, it's revealed they're [[spoiler: also Sailor Soldiers, filling the same roles for Chibi Moon that the 4 Guardian Soldiers do for Sailor Moon]] |
| 175 | * RepetitiveName: All of their names are very repetitive, [[spoiler:and in the manga, their Dead Moon names are repetitions of their real names as Sailor Guardians]]. The Lemures they summon also have repetitive names (Gari-Gari, Mane-Mane, Toge-Toge, etc.). |
| 176 | * SealedGoodInACan: [[spoiler:In the manga the Amazoness Quartet were originally the Sailor Quartet, supposed to be sealed away in the Amazon until Chibi-Usa was ready for her own Sailor Team. Nehellenia discovered them and brainwashed them. After Neo-Queen Serenity healed them, they went back to their slumber until near the end of the final arc, where they finally awakened to serve Chibi-Usa.]] |
| 177 | * SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: They, along with Chibi-Chibi/Sailor Cosmos, are the only ones to not die during the Stars arc of the manga, as most of the present Sailor Scouts were killed, Chibi-Usa is wiped out of existence once Mamoru’s Star Seed is melted into the Galaxy Cauldron and Sailor Moon throws herself into it to purify it, temporarily melting into it herself.]] |
| 178 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Their group name's proper spelling is heavily debated. Amazon (referring to the warrior women), Amazoness (referring to being women FROM the Amazon) or Amazones (a more correct plural of "Amazon") have all been used by fans. |
| 179 | * TheStarscream: They actually rebelled against Zirconia in their first episode in the 90s anime, but were quickly put down. |
| 180 | * StellarThemeNaming: Their Dead Moon names are repetitions of their true names as [[spoiler:Sailor Guardians, where they're all named after objects in the asteroid belt. Cere Cere is the dwarf planet Ceres, Jun Jun is the asteroid Juno, Ves Ves is the asteroid Vesta, and Palla Palla is the asteroid Pallas.]] |
| 181 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: And how! The only times any of them wear more clothing is when they're in disguise. The 90s anime does make their outfits a ''little'' [[AdaptationalModesty more modest]] by covering up more of their legs (Jun Jun's pants no longer have hip vents, while the other three wear tights). |
| 182 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: The Quartet really can't stand working for Zirconia and, unlike the Amazon Trio, are more than willing to insult Zirconia to her face about their thoughts on her. |
| 183 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Each role is shared by two girls. Jun Jun and Ves Ves are the tomboys, while Cere Cere and Palla Palla are the girly girls. |
| 184 | * TricksterArchetype: All of them have a very care-free attitude and are out to get what they want. Even though the manga has them turn out to be BrainwashedAndCrazy, in the anime they regularly heckle their evil boss even while supposedly under brainwashing. |
| 185 | * VaporWear: In the manga [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n1WNXwmQ-sE/UW38gv90s-I/AAAAAAAAAO4/y7nWVJ4u7MY/s1600/1374000-quartet_character_page.jpg their designs]] are pretty much just underwear with trains attached. [[note]]Cere Cere and Ves Ves have skirts. Jun Jun's turn into harem pants. Palla Palla by comparison has a strip of material to connect hers into a LeotardOfPower[[/note]] In the 90s Anime the AdaptationalModesty of adding tights and making what in the manga was the front of their underwear into a design on their skirt had the unintentional effect of turning them into this trope. There is no way to conceal anything but the skimpiest of underwear under their anime outfits. |
| 186 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Even more so than the Trio. When they're not doing their thing, they bicker amongst themselves 99% of the time. |
| 187 | [[/folder]] |
| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Cere Cere]] |
| 190 | !!Cere Cere |
| 191 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dub_celecele2.jpg https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_cere.png]] |
| 192 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/YuriAmano (JP), Creator/ReinaUeda (Eternal), Daniela Olivieri (Cloverway), Creator/CassandraLeeMorris (Viz) (EN) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]] Norma Echevarria ([=LatAm=]), Cristina Cavalinhos (PT) [[/labelnote]]\ |
| 193 | '''Played in the musicals by:''' Risa Honma |
| 194 | |
| 195 | ---- |
| 196 | * BodyDouble: [[spoiler:As the leader of the four Asteroid Guardians, it is implied that Sailor Ceres needs to be ready to fill this role for Sailor Chibi-Moon, just as Sailor Venus does for Sailor Moon.]] |
| 197 | * DubNameChange: She's called "Cele Cele" in the Cloverway dub. |
| 198 | * GreenThumb: Flowers in particular, although she once used mutant vines. Ironically, she's not very good at flower arrangement. During an episode where the Amazaon Quartet and Sailor Soldiers are unknowingly working together on a project in their civilian identities, she's quick to take notice of Rei's skill, and finds her attempts woefully shabby in comparison. |
| 199 | * ManipulativeBitch: She knows just which buttons to push to get people to do what she wants. |
| 200 | * MasterOfIllusion: Also fitting her manipulative tactics. |
| 201 | * MissedHimByThatMuch: In episode 156, when she's about to take Mr. Kamoi's Dream Mirror and is interrupted by Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi Moon, she shoots her magic ball at them first. Had she hit Chibiusa instead of Mr. Kamoi, or had she bothered trying again, she could as well have returned to the circus with the Golden Mirror. |
| 202 | * NotSoAboveItAll: As much as she tries to be, she really isn't; she can be just as juvenile as her sisters under the right conditions. |
| 203 | * PinkMeansFeminine: She is very feminine and tries to be mature compared to the others in the Quartet. |
| 204 | * ProudBeauty: In the anime where she chases after people that will highlight her perceived beauty for her, such as when she chased after an artist and asked him to repaint her. To be fair, she ''is'' quite beautiful but her attitude and pride makes her less likable. |
| 205 | * TeamMom: Being the oldest, she does appear at as this at times. [[spoiler:As Sailor Ceres, she is officially the leader of the Sailor Quartet.]] |
| 206 | [[/folder]] |
| 207 | |
| 208 | [[folder:Palla Palla]] |
| 209 | !!Palla Palla |
| 210 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dub_parapara2.jpg https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_pala.png]] |
| 211 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MachikoToyoshima (JP), Creator/SumireMorohoshi (Eternal), Jennifer Gould (Cloverway), Creator/XantheHuynh (Viz) (EN) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]] Circe Luna ([=LatAm=]), Olga Lima (PT) [[/labelnote]]\ |
| 212 | '''Played in the musicals by:''' Seira Saeki |
| 213 | |
| 214 | ---- |
| 215 | * BabyOfTheBunch: Alternatively to the original, she's the youngest. |
| 216 | * BadassAdorable: She might be cute but she's ''not'' to be trifled with. It's hinted she's the most skilled in terms of magic out the four. Shown various times when she usually targeted groups of people, she once switched Usagi and Chibi-Usa's ages, and she nearly ''tore the Sailor Guardians' arms off'' using a voodoo doll, among other examples. |
| 217 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: While she often is cheerful and acts very childlike, as mentioned above she's likely the most powerful and dangerous member of the Quartet. |
| 218 | * BrutalHonesty: Palla Palla seems incapable of telling a lie and will always tell the truth even if it gets her in trouble. This is {{lampshaded}} by Cere Cere in the Quartet's first official episode when she refers to her as "an honest girl" after Palla Palla admits she's not too happy meeting the Sailor Guardians. |
| 219 | * CreepyChild: Very much so. Palla Palla's dual nature is carried over with her Lemures. Even though she only summons two, they both had a happy face and an evil face. She also tends to get quite violent when playing with her toys - when playing with two dolls (a dentist, and a patient with a toothache), she decides to "cure" the patient's toothache by cheerfully ripping the doll's head off. Even Zirconia and the rest of the Quartet are taken aback and a bit unnerved by this display. As exemplified by the Cloverway dub when she's playing with "Dreamboat Dentist" and "Priscilla Patient": |
| 220 | -->'''Para Para''': "Oh no way Priscilla, drilling is out! Now we have a ''better'' technique. It doesn't even require a painkiller so you ''won't feel a thing!''" |
| 221 | -->(''Priscilla Patient gets her head ripped right off, to the audible shock of the rest of the Quartet'') |
| 222 | -->'''Para Para''': "Oh thank you, Dreamboat, the pain is all gone you're the best doctor ever!" "Yes I know!" |
| 223 | -->'''Besu Besu''': Yeah gone with her ''head!'' |
| 224 | -->'''Sele Sele''': That wasn't nice... |
| 225 | -->'''Jun Jun''': Poor Priscilla. |
| 226 | * DubNameChange: She's called "Para Para" in the Cloverway dub. |
| 227 | * EveryoneDiesEnding: Puts on a puppet show of sorts in the anime, where the ending has a prince, his winged horse, and a princess all killed by an evil sorcerer. Then the sorcerer dies, "just because." Her audience is not amused. |
| 228 | * LeotardOfPower: Her circus outfit as opposed to the other three. Although it is worth mentioning that her outfit accomplishes a lot of misdirection making her look more innocent when standing with the others. Remove the material over the stomach and see-through skirt, her outfit is merely two cups and a half covered rear. |
| 229 | * NearVillainVictory: She nearly succeeds first by switching Sailor Moon and Chibi Moon's ages so Chibi Moon was rendered unable to summon Pegasus, and later by nearly extracting Chibiusa's dream mirror, which would have revealed Pegasus' location. |
| 230 | * MissedHimByThatMuch: In episode 153 she unknowingly almost succeeds at finding Pegasus because she was about to extract Chibiusa's Dream Mirror. The only reason she failed was because Tuxedo Mask intervened in time. |
| 231 | * {{Sadist}}: Her fighting style and the way she plays with dolls hints at this. |
| 232 | * ShyBlueHairedGirl: Inverted; she is outspoken and childlike. |
| 233 | * TheSmartGuy: Palla Palla had the sense to attack groups instead of a single individual. She ''is'' Sailor Mercury's counterpart, [[spoiler:and as Sailor Pallas, her asteroid is named for one of Athena/Minerva's aliases.]] |
| 234 | * ThirdPersonPerson: She refers to herself in the third person in Japanese and in the Viz dub, which indicates that she's the most childish and ditzy of the quartet. |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Jun Jun]] |
| 238 | !!Jun Jun |
| 239 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dub_junjun2.jpg https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_jun.png]] |
| 240 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KumikoWatanabe (JP), Creator/YukoHara (Eternal), Mary Long (Cloverway), Creator/ErikaIshii (Viz) (EN) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]] Mónica Villaseñor ([=LatAm=]), Cristina Paiva (PT) [[/labelnote]]\ |
| 241 | '''Played in the musicals by:''' Niki Ajima |
| 242 | |
| 243 | ---- |
| 244 | * AnimeHair: All of the Amazoness Quartet have wild hair, but Jun Jun's takes the cake. |
| 245 | * BadassBiker: Jun Jun tends to dress in biker outfits outside of her circus uniform even though she is never shown to ride a motorbike. |
| 246 | * DubNameChange: Subverted; Unlike the other 3, her name stays the same in the dub. |
| 247 | * PetTheDog: She helps Chibi-Usa's friend Kyusuke with a problem of his in one episode ''before'' even learning that he's to be her new target. Not only that, but she has a tendency to help her targets fulfill their dreams anyways. |
| 248 | %%* SheFu |
| 249 | * {{Tomboy}}: Aside from her outfit, she's not all that feminine. This makes her an inversion of her counterpart, Sailor Jupiter, who has a tomboyish appearance but a feminine personality. |
| 250 | * YouSoundFamiliar: In the Canadian dub, Jun Jun was voiced Mary Long, the voice of Naru and Cooan. |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:Ves Ves]] |
| 254 | !!Ves Ves |
| 255 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dub_besubesu2.jpg https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_ves.png]] |
| 256 | ->'''Voiced by''': Junko Hagimori (JP), Creator/RieTakahashi (Eternal), Karyn Dywer (Cloverway), Creator/EricaLindbeck (Viz) (EN) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]] Gabriela Willert ([=LatAm=]), Creator/IsabelWolmar (PT) [[/labelnote]]\ |
| 257 | '''Played in the musicals by:''' Miho Suzuki |
| 258 | |
| 259 | ---- |
| 260 | * DubNameChange: She's called "Besu Besu" in the dub. |
| 261 | * FieryRedhead: She has red hair and is fittingly loud, brash, and somewhat violent. |
| 262 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: Ves Ves has the most appearances in the anime out of the four, since she's the one who goes after targets the most often. |
| 263 | * {{Stripperific}}: Her string bikini outfit is the most revealing of the group, hands down. In the Cloverway dub, Chibi-Usa even lampshades this in Episode 151 by saying Ves Ves "forgot to make half of her outfit". |
| 264 | * WhipOfDominance: She is themed after a circus animal tamer, and uses a whip as her weapon. Notably, all of the [[LivingShadow Lemures]] that she summons has an animal-themed, and she seems to direct them with her whip. |
| 265 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: Despite being nearly as tall as Cere Cere, she's actually the youngest sister of the quartet. |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | !The Amazon Trio |
| 269 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 270 | !!The Amazon Trio |
| 271 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/amazontrioanime_9.png https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_01.png]] |
| 272 | !!!!!![[caption-width-right:350: Top image, L-R: Hawk's Eye, Tiger's Eye and Fish's Eye ]] |
| 273 | |
| 274 | Three animals from the Dead Moon Circus transformed into humans by the Amazoness Quartet to battle with the Sailor Guardians. In the 90s anime, they serve under Zirconia. |
| 275 | ---- |
| 276 | * AdaptationalHeroism: In the 90s anime, instead of being one-shot MonstersOfTheWeek, they have existential crises over their lack of [[AnatomyOfTheSoul dream mirrors]] and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman animal natures]] and befriend the heroes before reverting to animal shapes and being taken to a magical sanctuary. |
| 277 | * AffablyEvil: In ''Eternal'', Hawk's Eye tells Makoto he's always dreamed of running his own shop. While he is merely acting friendly to her so he can feed her to Lemures without any remorse (even after learning she shares the same dream as him), after she mortally wounds him, he expresses his satisfaction that he got to realize his dream, if only for a short while, and tells her to realize her dreams no matter what, likely due to finding her relatable despite being mortal enemies. |
| 278 | ** All three of them are also cheerful and flamboyant when they first turn human, though they all get quite malicious once they actually go after the Sailor Guardians. |
| 279 | * AnimalThemeNaming: Combined with RockThemeNaming and LandSeaSky. Each one's name includes the name of their animal form. |
| 280 | %%* {{Anti Villain}}s: Anime only. |
| 281 | * {{Ascended Extra}}s: In the original manga the Amazon Trio were just [=MOWs=] for the Amazoness Quartet, who were the actual QuirkyMinibossSquad of the arc. In the '90s anime the trio were made the first set of minions for Zirconia and as such had a lot more interactions with the main cast. |
| 282 | * CrosscastRole: The Musical versions of Fish's Eye and Hawk's Eye. The latter is played by Hikari Ono who also played Prince Dimande. |
| 283 | * DiedHappilyEverAfter: In the 90s anime, Pegasus takes them to a forest sanctuary. |
| 284 | * FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: In the manga, unlike most villains who just get wiped away in a smear of ash, they get pretty graphic deaths. Tiger's Eye gets [[BoomHeadshot an arrow through the head,]] Hawk's Eye gets [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cut in half,]] and Fish's Eye gets [[LudicrousGibs popped like a blood-filled balloon.]] Their deaths are much more family-friendly in ''Eternal'' despite being killed by the same characters with the same attacks. |
| 285 | * HeelFaceTurn: In the anime only, they realize the error of their ways and join the good guys. |
| 286 | * HoneyTrap: The three would separately try to befriend or seduce you. Once you rejected them, they'd try to trap you. How they go about it fits with their names. Hawk's Eye and Tiger's Eye both actively hunt their targets, whereas Fish's Eye baits the target and lets them come to him. In the manga, Hawk's Eye tries a variant of this. Rather than trying to force himself on his target Guardians like Fish's Eye and Tiger's Eye did, Hawk's Eye instead introduces himself in a civilian form to Makoto, befriends her, and tricks her into thinking he's sympathetic to her worries before attacking. |
| 287 | %%* IneffectualSympatheticVillain |
| 288 | * LackOfEmpathy: In the 90s anime, none of them can understand the importance around why their targets value their dreams, and tend to view their victims as statistics rather than people. Fish's Eye, however, starts to develop empathy on his own and realizes why these people value their dreams so much. Before his HeelFaceTurn, Fish's Eye would've gladly destroyed a person's dream mirror if ordered to do so. [[spoiler: When Mister Magic Pierrot shatters Usagi's mirror, Fish's Eye is ''horrified'' and understands completely how much Usagi has lost.]] |
| 289 | * LandSeaSky: Tiger's Eye, Fish's Eye, and Hawk's Eye respectively. |
| 290 | * MindRape: ''Literally''. In order to find Pegasus, they stick their heads inside of restrained people's dream mirrors in ways that [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything remind you of a sexual assault.]] |
| 291 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: In the '90's anime, after Zirconia [[spoiler:attacks Fish's Eye for trying to ask about the Trio's origins, and then smugly telling them that they are mere animals given human forms to act as pawns for the circus, the group collectively decide to give the middle finger to Zirconia and help restore Sailor Moon's Dream Mirror at the cost of their own lives. [[RedemptionEarnsLife Don't worry they get better.]]]] |
| 292 | * {{Punch Clock Villain}}s: The trio usually discuss work sitting around their personal bar, and regard the search for Pegasus as a mere chore they have to do as a part of their circus job. |
| 293 | ** Played with in ''Eternal'', where when Tiger's Eye and Hawk's Eye die, the only thing they can think of in their final moments is their dreams, and the latter is almost friendly to the Sailor Guardian he targeted moments earlier. |
| 294 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: In the 90s anime, after restoring Usagi's dream mirror at the cost of their energy, Pegasus takes them to Elysion to live in an enchanted forest. |
| 295 | * TrueCompanions: In the anime. Unlike the ChronicBackstabbingDisorder that plagues the majority of the villains, they were friendly towards each other from the start (despite not realizing what a friend was) and went on to support and die for each other and Sailor Moon. Not so different from a certain set of five girls. |
| 296 | * TwoGuysAndAGirl: In most dubs, due to [[ShesAManInJapan Fish's Eye's gender change.]] |
| 297 | * VillainsOutShopping: They're always seen hanging out in a pub. |
| 298 | * VitriolicBestBuds: The three, in the anime, especially Tiger's Eye and Hawk's Eye. |
| 299 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: In both the manga and anime the trio are literally a tiger, hawk, and fish. The Amazon Quartet's magic let them take human forms. |
| 300 | [[/folder]] |
| 301 | |
| 302 | [[folder:Tiger's Eye]] |
| 303 | !!Tiger's Eye |
| 304 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (first anime), Creator/SatoshiHino (Eternal) (JP), Creator/JasonBarr (Cloverway), Creator/JohnEricBentley (Viz), (EN) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]] Creator/YamilAtala ([=LatAm=]), António Semedo (PT) [[/labelnote]].\ |
| 305 | '''Portrayed in the musicals by''': Creator/RyuujiKasahara, Creator/AkihitoMimatsu |
| 306 | |
| 307 | Created from a tiger, Tiger's Eye usually targeted girls who were younger than him. The Lemures he would send out were always female. |
| 308 | ---- |
| 309 | * AlasPoorVillain: In ''Eternal''. He dreamed of becoming an artist. When Tiger's Eye dies, his last words are "My dream! It's destroyed!" |
| 310 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: In the BeachEpisode, Tiger's Eye briefly contemplates to himself about what a friend is before brushing it off. It turns out later that he's had two all along. |
| 311 | * CasanovaWannabe: Tiger's Eye tries to seduce his targets and often fails miserably, [[HandsomeLech despite his good looks]]. |
| 312 | * EvilRedhead: Sort of falls into this if you count light orange as red hair. |
| 313 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: In ''Eternal'', both he disintegrates (along with his Mirror House) once killed by Sailor Mars with an arrow. |
| 314 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: Tiger's Eye in the 90's anime adaptation. Out of the three, Tiger's Eye is the one that goes after more victims and sends out more Lemures, specially in the beginning of the season. |
| 315 | * WhipOfDominance: He is an [[DudeLooksLikeALady effeminate]] and domineering [[TheCasanova seducer]] who wields a whip in combat. |
| 316 | * WouldHurtAChild: Once targets a young swordswoman around Chibi-Usa's age. However, Tiger's Eye never tries to seduce her and instead manipulates her into believing he will make her a stronger swordswoman. |
| 317 | [[/folder]] |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[folder:Hawk's Eye]] |
| 320 | !!Hawk's Eye |
| 321 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ToshioFurukawa (first anime), Creator/ToshiyukiToyonaga (Eternal) (JP), Creator/BenjiPlener (Cloverway), Creator/MichaelYurchack (Viz), (EN) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]] Creator/BenjaminRivera ([=LatAm=]), Rogério Jacques (PT)[[/labelnote]]\ |
| 322 | '''Portrayed in the musicals by''': [[CrosscastRole Tsukiko Tamura, Hikari Ono]] |
| 323 | |
| 324 | Created from a hawk, Hawk's Eye preferred to attack women who were older than him. Like Hawk's Eye, his Lemures were always female. |
| 325 | ---- |
| 326 | * AdaptationalDyeJob: Hawk's Eye hair and clothing in the 90s anime was crimson red and light rose. In ''Eternal'', they're dark pink and purple. |
| 327 | * AlasPoorVillain: In ''Eternal''. He dreamed of opening a shop. Before Hawk's Eye dies, he says this is the end of his dream but is satisfied he got to realize it for a short while. |
| 328 | %%* BreathWeapon: Hawk's Eye. |
| 329 | * BriefAccentImitation: At one point, Hawk's Eye pretends to speak like Zirconia, even pulling his eyelids down to mimic the old bag's style. It causes Tiger's Eye to SpitTake his whiskey, and then he compliments Hawk's Eye on the masterful performance. |
| 330 | * CasanovaWannabe: In a more low key, downplayed way compared to Hawk's Eye, but he does target women by trying to seduce them. |
| 331 | * CrosscastRole: In the musicals, he is played by Hikari Ono who also played Prince Dimande. |
| 332 | * EvilRedhead: A villain who has bright red hair. In ''Crystal'', it's more of a dark pink. |
| 333 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: In ''Eternal'', once mortally wounded by Sailor Jupiter, Hawk's Eye accepts his defeat, content that he realized his dream of running his own shop (if only for a short while), and even displaying some level of respect to Sailor Jupiter (who shares his dream) by telling her, in his final words, to go and realize her dreams. |
| 334 | * LikesOlderWomen: Hawk's Eye preferred to attack older women in the anime. In fact, one of his victims was Ikuko-mama, Usagi's mother. |
| 335 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: In ''Eternal'', he disintegrates (along with his shop) once killed by Sailor Jupiter, though unlike Tiger's Eye, he had time to give some final words. |
| 336 | [[/folder]] |
| 337 | |
| 338 | [[folder:Fish's Eye]] |
| 339 | !!Fish's Eye |
| 340 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AkiraIshida (first anime), Creator/ShoutaAoi (Eternal) (JP), Deborah Drakeford (Cloverway), Creator/ErikKimerer (Viz) (EN) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]] Vicky Burgoa ([=LatAm=]), Miguel Feijão (PT) [[/labelnote]]\ |
| 341 | '''Portrayed in the musicals by''': [[CrosscastRole Tae Kimura]] |
| 342 | |
| 343 | Created from a tropical fish, Fish's Eye targeted men for their Dream Mirrors. Unlike the other two, he used male Lemures. |
| 344 | ---- |
| 345 | * AdaptationalSexuality: Gay and nursing a sincere crush on Mamoru in TheNineties anime, Fish's Eye originally attempted to seduce Ami as the manga's more disposable MonsterOfTheWeek. |
| 346 | * BreakoutVillain: Fish's Eye was voted one of the series’ most popular villains in a poll. |
| 347 | * CampGay: Fish's Eye in the anime. He's very feminine and is only interested in going after male targets. |
| 348 | * CampStraight: Fish's Eye in the manga, where [[HoneyTrap he tries to seduce Ami to brainwash her.]] [[spoiler:It utterly fails]]. |
| 349 | * CartoonCreature: Fisheye's animal form is a fish, but it's not clear what species. It doesn't seem to resemble any real fish species. It's blue and green striped, has fancy oversized fins covered in red spots, and appears to have long spines or feelers above and below the head. |
| 350 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: Look at Fish's Eye. Listen to Fish's Eye. If it weren't for his infamous ShirtlessScene, would ''you'' believe Fish's Eye is a guy? |
| 351 | * EasilyForgiven: In the 90s anime. Fish's Eye receives separate character development, coming to truly understand what love and dreams really are thanks to Mamoru and Usagi. Hawk's Eye and Tiger's Eye rebel less because of wanting to become good and more for telling Zirconia where to stick it as payback for trying to kill them, as well as to stick by their friend Fish's Eye to the end. |
| 352 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: In the 90's anime, Fish's Eye admires Usagi in his last moments for having the dreams that he couldn't, with Usagi realizing that he is "the girl" that she helped earlier. |
| 353 | * HighHeelFaceTurn: Apparently extends to crossdressers too, as the very feminine Fish's Eye is the first of the trio to reconsider the path of evil because he falls in love with Mamoru. |
| 354 | * LiterallyShatteredLives: Fish's Eye in ''Eternal'', once Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi Moon use Moon Gorgeous Meditation on him. In the original anime, this happens to all of the Amazon Trio's Monsters of the Week. |
| 355 | * LoveRedeems: In the anime, Fish's Eye is the first of the trio to go straight (no pun intended), after falling in unrequited love with Mamoru and befriending Usagi. |
| 356 | * ShesAManInJapan: Fish's Eye was often made female in the Cloverway dub, for much the same reasons as Zoisite. In particular, his eyes are designed like typical female anime eyes such as the Sailor Guardians have, whereas Tiger's Eye and Hawk's Eye's eyes follow the typical anime male eye design, which is also why it's easy to mistake Fish's Eye for a girl. |
| 357 | * VillainousCrossdresser: In the manga, he disguises himself as a woman in a store when he targets Makoto. |
| 358 | * VillainousCrossdresser: In the anime. Though he gets some CharacterDevelopment and becomes a WholesomeCrossdresser. |
| 359 | * WouldHurtAChild: Fish's Eye actually targeted a young boy in one episode, but before that he ''tried seducing him''. He also abducted Chibi-Usa when he learned about her connection to Pegasus. |
| 360 | [[/folder]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | !Others |
| 363 | [[folder:Xenotime & Zeolite]] |
| 364 | !!Xenotime & Zeolite |
| 365 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_466.png]] |
| 366 | ->'''Xenotime voiced by''': Creator/YoheiAzakami (JP) Creator/ToddHaberkorn (EN)\ |
| 367 | '''Zeolite voiced by''': Creator/RyoheiArai (JP) Creator/EzraWeisz (EN)\ |
| 368 | |
| 369 | ---- |
| 370 | |
| 371 | * AdaptedOut: They appeared in both the original manga and ''Eternal'' but weren't in the 90s anime. |
| 372 | * AxCrazy: They're a couple of knife wielding freaks who repeatedly threaten to stab people to death and do it all with creepy smiles on their faces. |
| 373 | * TheCorrupter: They briefly brainwashed Minako before Artemis snapped her out of it. |
| 374 | %%* CreepyTwins |
| 375 | * EvilCounterpart: They serve as Venus's spotlight enemy since the Amazon Trio only had three members, who went up against Mercury, Mars and Jupiter. |
| 376 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: No, that picture isn't them making a funny face. They really look like that all the time. |
| 377 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Their scheme to entrap a Sailor Guardian was a lot more successful than the Amazon Trio's attempts, to the point that they had actually corrupted Minako and captured Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter. Granted, it didn't last long, but they were the only mooks ballsy enough to take on all four of the Inner Guardians at once. |
| 378 | * ObviouslyEvil: Xenotime approaches Minako as a talent scout for "Dead Moon Idol Audition," but Minako can fully tell they're the enemy and goes along with it for the sake of exposing them. |
| 379 | * SlasherSmile: Both of them, and it seems to be their default expression. |
| 380 | [[/folder]] |
| 381 | |
| 382 | [[folder:Lemures]] |
| 383 | !!Lemures |
| 384 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_660.png]] |
| 385 | |
| 386 | * CloudCuckoolander: A lot of the things they say in the first anime doesn't really make sense. For example one them randomly says you'll "become a toad". |
| 387 | * ClownSpecies: In the manga the circus is loaded with more clown-themed individuals. In the '90s anime, the Guardians only fight one expressly clown-type monster, but [[HeroKiller he's not to be trifled with]], unlike the rest of the Lemures. |
| 388 | * TheDogWasTheMastermind: A running gag features one of the Amazon Trio summoning a circus animal (seal, elephant etc.) playing with a ball. The animal quickly proves harmless. The ball... not so much. |
| 389 | * EverythingsWorseWithBears: One of the most prominent background Lemures was a blue-skinned girl with a bear's head and giant, mismatched eyes. |
| 390 | * HarmlessVillain: In the anime, they gradually descend into posing no threat at all. One of them tries "attacking" Usagi and Chibi-Usa by bouncing them up and down on a trampoline without actually trying to hurt them. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Not that this stopped the Guardians from destroying them, of course.]] |
| 391 | ** NotSoHarmlessVillain: [[KnightOfCerebus Mr. Magic Pierrot]] shows that no matter how silly a Sailor Moon monster might be, you ''need'' Sailor Moon and her finisher to take it down; after incapacitating her, he totally dominates the fight and [[spoiler: kills Hawk's Eye]] until she comes back. |
| 392 | * TheHeartless: [[spoiler:They're what happens to a person who's lost their dreams; in other words, [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Nobodies. Their origins are revealed in ''Stars'', as Queen Nehellenia took the dream mirrors of her servants transforming them into what they are]]. They're nightmare blobs in the manga, making them much closer to the Trope Namer in appearance and application.]] |
| 393 | * LighterAndSofter: In the manga, Lemures are globs of pure nightmares. In the anime, they're campy MonstersOfTheWeek with a circus theme... Except for the MonsterClown that's sent to kill the Amazon Trio for their failures, seeing as he, well, succeeds, and mocks them for how pathetic they are, and comes ''this'' close to finishing everyone off. |
| 394 | * LiterallyShatteredLives: How they die in the anime, either with the pieces apparently falling into their shadow, which then vanishes (Amazon Trio) or spontaneously exploding while leaving the Dream Mirror unharmed (Amazoness Quartet). |
| 395 | * LivingShadow: The Lemures in the anime are summoned from their masters' shadow. Especially so in the Amazon Trio's Lemures, who briefly return to being shadows before fading away on death. |
| 396 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: Unlike some of the other Monsters in the anime, the Lemures being old servants turned into weird circus freaks, so some of them end up not being very good at the whole "monster attacks sailor scouts" things. |
| 397 | * MonogenderMonsters: The only Sailor Moon monsters to avert this, about half of them are male. |
| 398 | * OhCrap: Whenever they get hit by Sailor Moon's attack and go "Stage Out!" |
| 399 | * OurZombiesAreDifferent / OurGhostsAreDifferent: Nehellenia explicitly calls them "living corpses". |
| 400 | * PlayboyBunny: Candy Doll [=PeroPero=] appears as one after shifting out of her ball form. |
| 401 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: The Lemures were sometimes called "Remless" in subtitles, or in other words the [[MeaningfulName "dreamless".]] |
| 402 | * ThemeNaming: In the 90s anime, their names have different themes depending on who summons them. Palla Palla's Lemures are the only ones with no real naming scheme. |
| 403 | ** Hawk's Eye and Tiger's Eye summon female Lemures whose names end in "-ko". |
| 404 | ** Fisheye summons male Lemures whose names end in an "o" sound. |
| 405 | ** For the Amazoness Quartet, Ves Ves's are identified with "Musume," Cere Cere's with "Jou," and Jun Jun's with "Yarou" (and like Fisheye, Jun Jun is the only one of her group who summons male Lemures). In the Viz dub, "Musume" is translated as "Girl", "Jou" as "Miss", and "Yarou" as "Dude". |
| 406 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Queen Nehellenia. And considering that she made every last one of them what they are... [[ExtremeDoormat that says a lot]]. |
| 407 | * WasOnceAMan: All of them. Then they lost their dreams...turned into monsters...and started a circus? |
| 408 | * YouKilledMyFather: The ball-themed Lemures turn out to be related. After Puko the balloon girl is killed, her cousin Gomu Mario decides to "thank" Sailor Moon for what she did when they meet. However, Gomu Mario's relative Elephanko doesn't care what happened to him or Puko. |
| 409 | [[/folder]] |
| 410 | |
| 411 | [[folder:Mirror Paredri]] |
| 412 | !!Mirror Paredri |
| 413 | [[quoteright:500:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/espejos.png]] |
| 414 | |
| 415 | Mirror dolls born from the shards of Nehelenia's Dark Dream Mirror. They serve as her main enforcers by attacking the Sailor Guardians throughout her revenge plot in ''Sailor Stars''. |
| 416 | ---- |
| 417 | * AbsurdlySharpClaws: They can extend their nails to be razor sharp when attacking. |
| 418 | * BarbieDollAnatomy: They're practically naked but lack the ''details'' you'd expect from a human body. |
| 419 | * BodySurf: While fighting the Guardians in her Nightmare World, Nehelenia is able to possess any given doll while interacting with them. |
| 420 | * CanonForeigner: They only exist in the 90s anime. |
| 421 | * ContrastingReplacementCharacter: They replace the Lemures as the new [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters of the week]] serving under Queen Nehelenia. The Lemures were [[TheHeartless zombies with no Dream Mirrors]] who had wackadoodle personalities and a creepy circus theme. The Mirror Paredri have no defining personalities and are created based the fragments of their master's hateful dream. And while the Lemures were shown as silly and light-hearted while attacking the Sailor Team, the mirror dolls are regarded as genuinely dangerous threats. |
| 422 | * GigglingVillain: They have no dialogue and are only shown giggling with sadistic glee. |
| 423 | * {{Glamour}}: Despite bearing a strong resemblance to their Shadow Queen, the heroes don't recognize them until Usagi realizes who is responsible for the ongoing curse. |
| 424 | * HealingFactor: Thanks to being made of mirrors, they can regenerate their bodies in only seconds. |
| 425 | * KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler:They never get a closing scene after the fight with Venus and Pluto. But it's implied that they disappeared once Nehelenia was defeated and ended her curse]]. |
| 426 | * LiterallyShatteredLives: This was a given because of their mirror bodies. But they manage to reform themselves in spite of their injuries. |
| 427 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 428 | ** Their name "Paredri" is based on the Greek word meaning "familiar spirits" (Πάρεδροι). They essential act as malevolent spirits who bare a familiar face to one another. |
| 429 | ** The name could also be refer to "parody" as in they parody Nehelenia via her physical appearance and hatred for the White Moon. |
| 430 | * WouldHurtAChild: One of them tries to tear apart [[spoiler:Hotaru when she was just a baby]]. |
| 431 | * ZergRush: They often appear in large numbers to overpower the Sailor Guardians. |
| 432 | [[/folder]] |
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