http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Sailor_Moon_Main.JPG
''Moon Prism Power, Make-UP!''

''Sailor Moon'' (Full title, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon) is the story of Tsukino Usagi ("Serena Tsukino" in the North American dub) - a clumsy, lazy, underachieving 14-year-old crybaby whose life is completely changed when she meets a talking cat. The cat, Luna, tells her that she is a predestined magical warrior who must find the reincarnated princess of a lost kingdom of magic while at the same time defending against the forces of the extra-dimensional evil responsible for the fall of that kingdom. In the course of a year, Usagi gathers to herself other reincarnated warriors, learns how to be a leader, and discovers a secret power within herself that puts the combined force of the Sailor Senshi to shame. Finally, she must confront the evil behind the Dark Kingdom, sacrificing everything in her attempt to destroy it forever.

Subsequent seasons go through a similar pattern with [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil the strength of each set of foes escalating]], and even non-combative elements of the show had a strong case of SoLastSeason; obscure allies and {{Ascended Extra}}s popular with fandom are sometimes ignored.

Known in Japan as ''Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon'' (and given the non-literal English title of ''Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon''), this groundbreaking manga and anime fused the {{Sentai}} and MagicalGirl genres, forever redefining the latter. It has become known as the archetypal MagicalGirl show and has been widely imitated and parodied. Created by pharmacist-turned-manga-author Naoko Takeuchi, ''SailorMoon'' lasted through five seasons and several motion pictures, and has become something of a cottage industry. Toei Animation's work on the most popular current MagicalGirl series ''FutariWaPrettyCure'' is largely seen as attempting to [[FollowTheLeader replicate its success]].

The North American dub of ''SailorMoon'' is infamous for the amount of [[{{Macekre}} censorship and "rewriting"]] imposed on it by [=DiC=], the company which licensed the show. Few English dubs of anime this side of Carl Macek's "free adaptations" (see ''{{Robotech}}'') and the ''[[NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind Nausicaa]]'' dub ''Warriors of the Wind'' have been more despised by fans when it comes to butchery in the name of making a show "acceptable" to an American audience. Whole episodes were thrown out, plot lines excised root and stem, and entire segments rewritten from scratch to shoehorn it into [=DiC=]'s intended audience; additionally, AnAesop was conjured up out of each episode and stitched on at the end in order to comply with FCC regulations for "educational content" in children's television (although this was only done to the Classic and R series). Uncensored versions of the series were offered first for S and [=SuperS=] as they aired on Cartoon Network by {{Geneon}} (then Pioneer), and for a brief period in 2003-2004, the first two series were offered uncensored by ADVFilms before going out of print again. Toei has quietly pulled the license to the franchise worldwide and non-bootlegged [=DVDs=] now go for a great deal of money online.

As bad as the [=DiC=] dub was, however, its was downright faithful compared to what a small company known as Toon Makers wanted to do with it. Watch the sheer horror [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0W9_5IlsvU here!]] (And make sure to have ''plenty'' of BrainBleach on hand. Trust us.)

Also, a live-action version appeared on Japanese television between October 2003 and October 2004. Forty-nine episodes were broadcast of ''PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', which established itself as a completely separate [[AlternateContinuity continuity]] unrelated to either the manga or the anime.

The show's influence created the stereotypical image in the West of a MagicalGirl being a MagicWarrior rather than a CuteWitch; in Japan the latter is still the more prominent variety. It also probably has -- or had -- the most {{fanon}} of any televised anime, making it a sort of stepsister show to ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]''. FanFic [[IntercontinuityCrossover crossovers]] between ''Sailor Moon'' and ''Ranma 1/2'' are unusually common, to the point that they've developed their own sub-genre: the FukuFic.

[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: The core characters are: ]]

*[[TheMessiah Tsukino Usagi]], [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kerai/1119515351419.jpg Sailor Moon]]
*[[TheLancer Hino]] [[{{Miko}} Rei]], [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kerai/1119515480076.jpg Sailor Mars]]
*[[HugeSchoolgirl Kino Makoto]], [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kerai/1119515400023.jpg Sailor Jupiter]]
*[[BunnyEarsLawyer Aino]] [[IdolSinger Minako]], [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kerai/1119515688120.jpg Sailor Venus]]
*[[TeenGenius Mizuno Ami]], [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kerai/1119515440543.jpg Sailor Mercury]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Aiding them are: ]]

* [[MysteriousProtector Chiba Mamoru]], Tuxedo Kamen.
* Luna and Artemis, the team's mentors and talking cats

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Later additions to the team include: ]]


* [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Chibi-Usa]], [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kerai/1119515599973.jpg Sailor Chibi-Moon]] and her talking kitten Diana
* [[{{bifauxnen}} Tenou]] [[ButchLesbian Haruka]], Sailor Uranus
* [[TheOjou Kaiou]] [[LipstickLesbian Michiru]], Sailor Neptune
* [[IllGirl Tomoe Hotaru]], Sailor Saturn
* [[OmniscientMoralityLicense Meiou Setsuna]], Sailor Pluto

[[Characters/SailorMoon There is a character sheet for more details.]]

The manga has a {{prequel}} (of sorts; timing makes it both a prequel and a {{sequel}} to ''Sailor Moon'') -- ''CodenameSailorV''. Also has a Set of Stage Musicals known as the SeraMyu
----
!!This show provides examples of:
* TheAbridgedSeries (''SailorMoonAbridged'')
* AchillesInHisTent: The standard plot happens a little differently to demure Mercury, who starts as the only Senshi without offensive abilities, and is too nice to storm off. Instead, she's offered a chance to study abroad and further her goals of becoming a doctor, which will remove her from the Senshi. She's about to take it, bur changed her mind at the last moment so returns in time to get her mid-season power upgrade (which finally makes her more action-geared) and rescue the rest of the team from a monster only weak to ice, and she returns to the fold.
* AdaptationDecay or AdaptationDistillation. YourMileageMayVary.
* AgonyBeam: Various baddies have them, a notable use (though without an actual beam) is during R when Rubeus increases his ship's artificial gravity to 10 and more G's to torture Sailor Moon. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome She stands up.]]
* AliensAndMonsters:throughout the series' entire run
* AlienAnimals: Luna and Artemis.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Or Japanese, as the case may be.
* AllergicToLove: Ami in one of the side stories
* AloofAlly: Sailors Neptune and Uranus. ''The'' aloof allies.
* AlternateContinuity: The animé and the Manga. Not to mention the live-action series PrettyGuardianSailorMoon
* AmazonBrigade: The Sailor Senshi, the Amazones Quartet.
* AnachronismStew: The names of the planets in our solar system were given to them well into recorded history, and relatively arbitrarily at that. The senshi, on the other hand, have been around for eons. It really makes no sense that a senshi's powers would be based on the powers of a deity her planet was named after ''long'' after she came into being.
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: "Sailor Says", North America only
* AmericansHateTingle: Although Japanese audiences were quite fond of Chibi-Usa, in the US she's often seen as TheScrappy, often taking the brunt of criticism for the fourth series because it's basically centered around her.
** Americans liked Chibi-Chibi, though. Were can you get one?
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Usagi's younger brother Shingo. Later, Chibi-Usa.
** Shingo's more of an aversion really, most of their problems are caused by his sister and despite their bickering he's shown to care quite deeply for her. One episode even showed that he was fairly well-liked amongst Usagi's friends, which is impressive given their exhasperation with her sometimes.
* TheAntiChrist: Mistress 9
* ApocalypseMaiden: Sailor Saturn
* AscendedExtra: In the manga, the roles of most villains were extremely small and they were often killed off without much ado. In the anime, their roles and characters were greatly expanded. The Sailor Starlights were also given a similar treatment.
* BattleAura: Everyone
* BattleRoyaleWithCheese: In the first and last season
* BadassBookworm: Ami, Taiki
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Crystal Tokyo. 'Nuff said.
* BerserkButton: It was established in the 13th episode that anyone who [[StayInTheKitchen makes sexist remarks]] in the hearing of a sailor senshi is in for a world of hurt, as Jadeite learned the hard way when the then-{{Power Trio}} of sailor senshi used [[CarFu Plane Fu]] on him for that offense.
* BicepPolishingGesture
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Haruka
** Surely the Starlights as well, at least in the manga.
* BigBad: One each season: Queen Metaria, Death Phantom, Master Pharaoh 90, Queen Nehellenia, and Sailor Galaxia/Chaos. The latter of which is also the entire series BigBad in the manga.
* BigBudgetBeefUp
* BigEater: Usagi
* BigNo: Usagi during the climax of the final season after [[spoiler: Mercury Mars Venus and Jupiter throw themselves in-front of Sailor Moon and the Starlights to protect them from Sailor Galaxia's attack. The attack removes their Star Seeds causing them to fade into orbs of light before vanishing altogether]]. She says it rather weakly at first then lets out a chilling scream of it. Turns into a SkywardScream after she starts yelling.
* {{Bishonen}} Prince Demand, Saphir, Mamoru Chiba, Ali, etc.
* {{Bishoujo}} Usagi, Rei, etc.
* TheBlank: One makeup-themed {{Monster Of The Week}} accidentally erased her own face. She was trying to draw it back with eyebrow pencil on when Sailor Moon zapped her.
* BraggingThemeTune: Only the American dub.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Most notably Mamoru as Prince Endymion in Season One. In the manga it's somewhat of a recurring theme for him. Arguably many of the villains themselves fall into this. The Dark Kingdom also from Season One and the Black Moon Family from Season 2 (R).
* BrotherChuck: Season one had a fairly large supporting cast, including Usagi's parents and little brother, Rei's grandpa and his assistant, and various folks from their school. Almost all of them had vanished completely by season three, though a couple made a token appearance or two in later seasons, and the writers were nice enough to awkwardly pair off Usagi's main two school chums before they vanished.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Eiru and An in the second season have hints of this because they were created from the same being, á la Adam and Eve; surprisingly, this wasn't removed from the American version.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Professor Tomoe, a MadScientist who goes on rants about delicious coffee
* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "[Planet] [Something] Power, Make-up!" The dub usually just took off the "Make-up!", but sometimes you got things like "Moon Cosmic Dream Action!"
* CakeEater: Hawk's Eye of the Amazon Trio
* CallingYourAttacks: All the Sailor Senshi. They don't ''have'' to call out their attack names (we know that because they don't always do it), but they usually say the name just 'cause.
* CarFu: Episode 13 features an instance of ''Plane'' Fu.
* CastSpeciation
* ChainedHeat: Moon and Uranus in a ''Sailor Moon S'' episode
* CharacterExaggeration:
* CircusOfFear: "Dead Moon Circus" in ''[=SuperS=]''
* ClothesMakeTheLegend: The Sailor's fuku.
* CoatHatMask: Tuxedo Kamen. Who does not, in fact, wear a tuxedo.
* CommanderContrarian: Rei was [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] into this in the [=DiC=] dub.
* CrashIntoHello: Subverted in one episode where Rei goes WrongGenreSavvy and tries to deliberately engineer this to meet Mamoru. She ends up falling flat on her face and he walks past her.
* CreepyChild: Hotaru. Chibi-Usa is one in Episode 60 and arguably the other episodes.
* CriticalResearchFailure: The Solar system was a cloud of gas only 4.5 ''million'' years ago? Try ''billion.''
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: The aptly named "Crystal Tokyo"
* CuteShotaroBoy : Perle
* DarkMagicalGirl: Hotaru, somewhat; the Shadow Galactica.
** Don't forget Black Lady (Wicked Lady in the dub), who Chibi-Usa became when the enemy brainwashed her.
* DeadLesbianSyndrome: Haruka and Michiru both seem to suffer from this, as they've been mowed down twice in the anime. [[spoiler: Subverted both times as [[IGotBetter they got better]] within the next couple of episodes.]]
** BuryYourGays: Zoisite is executed by Queen Beryl just for his TakeNoPrisoners attitude. (He was explicitly ordered to take Tuxedo Kamen alive.) Kunzite joins him later on after Sailor Moon turned his own attack on him.
* DeathIsCheap: One of Sailor Moon's powers is explicitly resurrection, so expect main characters to die at least once per storyline.
* DemonicInvaders: All the bad guys.
* DesignatedVictim: Naru Osaka.
* DieForOurShip: Oh, ''Mamoru''.
* DidNotDoTheResearch: Despite his name, Tuxedo Kamen wears ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_tie full evening dress]]'', not a (semi-formal) [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_tie dinner jacket]].
* DirtyOldMan: Rei's grandfather, but only in the anime.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Nehellenia, so much.
* TheDragon:Every. Single. Season. Including one who eventually becomes a ''literal'' dragon.
* DreamMirror: TropeNamer, each season had at least one new item.
* DressCodedForYourConvenience
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the ''Stars'' manga (not sure about the anime), Princess Kakyuu has quite a bit of page time and character development, as she spends all of her time encouraging and helping Sailor Moon throughout the bad times. Then suddenly, during a fierce battle in the sailor crystal garden, [[spoiler: she suddenly decides it'd be awesome to tell everyone she's a Sailor Senshi, transforms into Sailor Kakyuu, then proceeds to get stabbed through the chest by a blunt, rounded staff. The bad guys quickly harvest her Sailor Crystal, and Sailor Moon completely snaps.]]
* DubInducedPlotHole: On top of just plain {{Inconsistent Dub}}bing, some incredibly ''unique'' plot inconsistencies popped up in the dubbing.
* DubNameChange: Just about all of them.
* DubText: Sailors Uranus and Neptune.
* DucksInARow
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Sometimes, as in the S movie where Ami's water attacks (More specifically, attacks that result in ice instead of water) do nothing to the ice-powered villain; sometimes not.
* EleventhHourSuperpower: Princess Serenity typically appeared during final battles.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: The creators were hugely surprised when Ami was the most popular Sailor Senshi, ''worldwide''.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Every. Damn. Season. Finale. The last season involved the end of the ''universe''. They almost succeed in the Final arc. After the final battle, only Sailor Moon is left alive in both versions. (In the anime, the Starlights and Galaxia also survive; in the manga, Chibimoon and the Sailor Quartetto come from the future and also live.) [[IGotBetter The entire universe gets better though.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: In the manga, Usagi isn't even remotely reluctant to admit that she thinks Rei Hino is gorgeous.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Tuxedo Mask has a bit of attention from Fiore from the R movie and more prominently Fish Eye in SuperS.
* [=~Everything's Better With Princesses~=]: There's Princess Serenity, and in the manga and English dub, the inner senshi are all princesses as well. The Outers are also Princesses in the Manga.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Endymion, Galaxia, and especially Black Lady
* ExpressiveHair: Usagi. Just... Usagi.
* ExtraStrengthMasquerade
* FacialMarkings
* FakeBoss
* FakeDefector: Uranus and Neptune in the final episodes.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:The cats]] in the manga, [[spoiler:Sailor Venus]] in the anime. [[IGotBetter They get better]].
* FamousLastWords: If you're a sailor senshi, expect to get some.
* FanFic -- loads of it, of course.
* FanNickname - The terms "Inner Senshi", "Outer Senshi," and "Asteroid Senshi." None of them appear in canon, though they are derived from terms that do appear. The Inners are given the title The Four Soldiers of the Guardian Gods" (四守護神の戦士, yon shūgoshin no senshi) although this is very rarely used. The Outers are given the title "outer solar system warriors" (外部太陽系戦士, gaibu taiyōkei senshi), and use this name to refer to themselves in the anime as well. The Musicals use naibu taiyōkei yon senshi ("inner solar system four warriors") and gaibu taiyōkei yon senshi ("outer solar system four warriors"), but these do not appear in any other media. The last group is simply known as the Sailor Quartet in canon. It should be noted that the term "Inner Senshi" is derived from the shortened form of the Second Group's name (Outer Senshi), not the musicals.
* FestivalEpisode
* FigureItOutYourself
* {{Filler}}
* FiveManBand: The Sailor Team, as explained above.
** TheHero: Usagi/Moon
** TheLancer: In the anime, Rei/Mars. In the manga, Minako/Venus.
** TheBigGuy: Makoto/Jupiter
** TheSmartGuy: Ami/Mercury
** TheChick: Minako/Venus, who is also TheLancer in the manga.
** TagAlongKid: Chibi-Usa/Chibi-Moon
** SixthRanger: Mamoru/Tuxedo Kamen. Later, the Outer Senshi.
** [[TeamPet Team Pets]]: Luna, then also Artemis, then also Diana
* {{Flanderization}}: Minako, who in the anime goes from being more mature and experienced despite her occasional ditziness, to being arguably ''worse than Usagi''.
** There's also Makoto's issues with guys who look like her past boyfriend.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In both the manga and anime, Chibi-Usa wants to make a grail she once saw in her mother's room out of clay as a school project. In the manga she's actually called out on this and asked if it was something Sailor Moon used for an attack, but Chibi-Usa doesn't know. What she ends up creating eventually turns out to be a replica of the Holy Grail, the object Sailor Moon uses to become Super Sailor Moon.
* FourIsDeath
* FrillsOfJustice: Contributes the image. Eternal Sailor Moon takes this trope to RIDICULOUS levels. At least Super Sailor Moon looked nice...
* FullMoonSilhouette
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In one of the filler episodes in the Nephrite arc, Usagi mutters something about chocolate parfaits asleep at class. seven episodes later [[spoiler: Well, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath let's]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath just say]] [[TearJerker it's a key element]] [[DownerEnding to that episode]]]]
** Another, cross-continuity example: in an early season one episode, a writer for a Sailor V anime wants make the series darker by [[spoiler: killing off the title character, who is based on the codename taken by Sailor Venus]]. Years later, PrettyGuardianSailorMoon comes along and [[spoiler: actually kills off Sailor Venus, if only semi-permenantly]].
* GenderBender: Starlights, anime only
* GeniusDitz: Usagi, Minako
* GhibliHills
* GirlishPigtails: Usagi and Chibi-Usa.
* GlamOfShazam: Early on, Usagi had a pen that let her age up and take on a disguise, such as a reporter, like older, traditional Magical Girls like CreamyMami and MinkyMomo. This was all but forgotten once other girls joined her, except it was used once in the R season.
**Minako has a compact that serves the same purpose in the manga. It first appears in her own manga, CodenameSailorV
* {{Gotterdammerung}}
* GrandFinale
* GratuitousEnglish: And Greek, Latin, French, and Portuguese. Most of the ByThePowerOfGreyskull and CallingYourAttacks
* GreenLanternCorps: It turns out there are Senshi all over the galaxy! Heck, there's even a Sailor ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Galaxia]]''!
* HairColors: Ami has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair]]. Setsuna and Michiru have different shades of green and Chibi-Usa's is pink (which is odd, when you consider that Mamoru is a brunette with blue highlights and Usagi is blonde).
* HeroicSacrifice: Many of them.
* HeroSecretService
* HideYourLesbians: Haruka and Michiru, who were actually quite groundbreaking for their time in playing with this idea.
* HoYay / FoeYay: Tons of pairings fit this. Some cannonical. Others not so. Zoicite/Kunzite is the obvious one but Jedite/Nephrite and Mamoru/Motoki (Andrew) also get some doujinshi, fanart and fanfics. Occasionally there is also Kunzite/Endymion as well.
* HostageForMcGuffin
* HugeSchoolgirl: Makoto, though she did use it to her advantage in her first episode when she beat up the three punks who bullied Usagi.
* HumanAliens
* HumanResources: Queen Beryl's evil scheme hinges on gathering human life force to feed to Queen Metaria. Badiane's Black Dream Hole is powered by the "Sugar Energy" of sleeping children. The Death Busters transform human bodies into monsters.
* HypnotizeThePrincess (quite a few times)
* HypocriticalHumor: Many [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle Sailor Says]] segments, when you consider that Serena's the one doing them.
* IHaveTheHighGround (mostly Tuxedo Kamen, Uranus and Neptune)
* IJustWantToBeNormal (Usagi)
* IdiosyncraticWipes: The [=DiC=]-produced episodes added CGI scene wipes. Cloverway was too cheap to be bothered.
* IgnoredEpiphany: In the manga, Beryl briefly muses about how she has sold her soul to Metaria, but thinks [[IHaveComeTooFar there's no going back]].
* IllGirl: Hotaru
* ImageSong
* InASingleBound: Tuxedo Kamen is fond of this.
* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: The TropeNamer
* IneffectualLoner: Tuxie, sort of.
* InvisibleToNormals: Nobody notices that Usagi looks ''exactly'' like Sailor Moon. Subverted at one point in the manga, where (gasp) Usagi realizes that Haruka Tenoh and Sailor Uranus look ''exactly alike'', and calls Haruka out on it.
* IsThatCuteKidYours: Chibi-Usa, who ''is'' Usagi's kid, and Chibi-Chibi, who isn't.
* JamesBondage: Poor, poor Tuxedo Kamen.
* {{Joshikousei}}
* KansaiRegionalAccent: Naru
* KarmicDeath: Most of the Dark Kingdom's bad guys.
* {{Keep Circulating the Tapes}} (the series was out on DVD, but briefly, and Toei refuses to license it any more; also the final ''Sailor Stars'' series and episode 67 never made it to America)
* KidFromTheFuture: Chibi-Usa
* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Bad, ''bad'' Mamoru!
* KnightTemplar: The Outer Senshi, especially Uranus.
* KotonoMitsuishi: Usagi
* LargeHam: The characters particularly shine when they make their InTheNameOfTheMoon speeches.
* LateForSchool: Usagi. Always.
* LeotardOfPower
* LesYay: The obvious example being Haruka and Michiru, but occasionally seen by fans amongst the Inner Senshi, too.
* LocalHangout: Game Center Crown, Fruits Parlor Crown
* LuminescentBlush: Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen, upon finding out that they'll have a kid in the future.
* TheLastTemptation
* TheLibby - Rei/Raye is popular at her school, and was shown perpetually insulting/demeaning Usagi. In one episode, she even hurt Ami while she was trying to say something nice about Usagi (and compliment her instead), and had a rivalry with Minako (who while overdramatic, was a lot nicer). She also schemed to be the leader in the English dub.
** Ann is this in the second season, and is usually mean to Usagi.
** There was some green-haired bitch in the fifth season, but she was nice deep down.
* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday
* {{Macekre}}: Lots of changes were made to the [=DiC=] and Cloverway dubs of ''SailorMoon'' to [[{{Americanitis}} make it more palatable for American audiences]], including:
** The Sailor Senshi's names changed from Japanese to Western names. (In the U.S. and Latin American dubs, the main heroine is "Serena Tsukino"; oddly enough, Sailor Saturn escaped this treatment, though she didn't get much screen time anyway.) Ami and Rei got off easier as their names were just changed to the similar-sounding Amy and Raye. Minako's name was shortened to "Mina," which her Guardian Cat Artemis called her sometimes in the original. In the English manga, Usagi's name (which means "Rabbit") became Bunny, though it was implied that this was a nickname and Serena was her real name.
** QuirkyMinibossSquad member Zoisite [[ShesAManInJapan being changed from a flamboyant homosexual male into a full-blown woman]]. The Same happened to a similar character Fish-Eye.
** Sailors Uranus and Neptune being portrayed as "cousins" instead of "[[HideYourLesbians more than just friends]]." Famously, this change [[DubText didn't work]].
** The entire ending of the first series being cut down into one episode, "Day of Destiny," so nobody would be shown dying, including the villains themselves.
** And the characters developed an inability to distinguish rice balls from donuts.
** It's nigh-on impossible to list everything here because the changes were so numerous and oftentimes completely unexplainable. However, what [=DiC=] did pales in comparison to what Toon Makers was ''planning'' to do if they got the rights. They were going to make their own American version with original animation and live-action segments. There exists [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Hge38AkFg footage]] of a promo being displayed by someone who worked on it. (The horrified laughter of the people filming it and their quote "Thank you for NOT doing that!!" should tell you what it's like - but watch it anyway.)
* MadScientist: Soichiro Tomoe, in the "Death Busters" arc
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Hotaru Tomoe, in the "Death Busters" arc; slightly subverted as she's only 12 or so.
* MagicalGirl: Well, duh.
* MagicWarrior
* {{Malaproper}}: Minako
* MakingASplash: Ami
* TheManBehindTheMan
* MartyrWithoutACause: Haruka and Michiru, who outdo even Usagi in their self sacrificing zeal.
* MaskPower: Tuxedo Kamen, at least before his extreme case of BadAssDecay.
* MeaningfulName: Many, ''many'' characters have meaningful names. Here are just the inner senshi for starters:
** Usagi Tsukino: a Japanese homophone for "rabbit of the moon."
** Mamoru Chiba: Defender of the Earth
** Minako Aino: The kanji used to represent "ai" in "Aino" means "love."
** Ami Mizuno: last name is 'of Water'
** Rei Hino: A Japanese homophone for "spirit of fire."
** Makoto Kino: Strong Spirit of Wood
**It would take too long to list the meaning of every MeaningfulName. [[http://www.genvid.com/diesgaudii/site/art-ety001.html This is probably the best site to visit if you want to find out what they are.]]

* TheMessiah: Usagi
* MessianicArchetype: Usagi
* MidSeasonUpgrade: Usagi gaining the Silver Crystal, which powered up her Moon Healing Escalation in the first season, and gaining the Holy Grail which gave her a SuperMode, powering up her Spiral Moon Heart Attack into the Rainbow Moon Heart Ache in S.
* MindControlEyes: Seen in any brainwashed character, particularly Mamoru. Those who had their Pure Hearts stolen or were trapped by the Dead Moon Circus also had them until rescued.
* MindRape: Dead Moon Circus did this to their victims in Super S. It's also how Chibi-Usa became Black Lady in R.
* MissingEpisode: Quite a few in the English and Korean dubs.
* MonogenderMonsters: Always seem to be female. There are SOME male monsters but they aren't nearly as common. This is strangly averted to some extent in the final arc, where the baddies are hunting down Sailor Senshi, who can only be female. (So says Word of God). The baddies still target men, though it's justified in the fact that the Sailor Starlights have disgused themselves as men to hide their identies while on earth, though the manner of said disguise differs depending on the addaption. (In the Manga they simply crossdress, in the anime they use magic to take on the bodies of men. The stage Musicals never state one way or the other though the performers are women.
**Also Played with in the 4th arc. All the Quirky Miniboss Squad Members summon Female monsters EXCEPT the Gay Fish-Eye and the Biker Chick JunJun, who summon male ones.
* MonsterOfTheAesop: Some really, ''really'' bizarre youma came about depending on the episode's theme, including such things as an elephant vacuum cleaner, "Cinderella", race cars, and even a syringe... Though the most bizarre example would have to be the ''Stars'' season's Sailor Guts, a football player transformed into a beefy, pink-skinned guy in a sailor suit about three sizes too small for him. Ew.
**Of special mention is Professor Tomoe, who engineered his Aesop-monsters ''on purpose'' after awhile.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Every episode.
** ''almost'' every episode. (Episodes 4, 13, 20, 22, 33, 34, 35, 41, 44, 46, 59, 60, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 110, 111, 121, 122, 123, 125, 126, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 181, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, and 200, don't have any.)
* MoralDissonance: Usagi loves everyone equally. ''Especially'' Tuxedo Kamen.
* TheMusical: The series got a set of stage musicals, known to fans as the Sera Myu, that ran longer then the anime's run, running fom 1993 to 2005. There were a total of 29 different shows (Half of which are revisions to other musicals, resulting in the same musical with plot points fleshed out and different songs (which have had more than 800 performances. The shows reused plotlines from the anime and manga as well as having plotlines unique to itself. Semi-Unique plotlines include villains from different seasons being revived by Sailor Galaxia to work for her (Queen Beryl, the Shitennou, and The Amazon Trio), or the addition of the Outer Senshi to the second arc. Totally unique plotlines include The Dracul set of musicals, a set of 3 (4 counting a revised version) musicals that have the Senshi battling vampires, werewolves and villains from outer space at the same time. Another set of 4 (3 of them being revised versions of the first) has them again battleing aliens, while this time fending off immortal pirates.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling
* MysteriousProtector: Tuxedo Kamen, Moonlight Knight in the Makaiju arc of [=SMR=]
* MythArc
* NameThatTune
* NerdGlasses: Umino/"Melvin", Princess D
* NeverSayDie: the dub, instead said ''captured by the Negaverse'''
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: In the manga version of Sailor Moon, during the Time Travel to the thirtieth century, the titular character feels faint in the presence of her future self, Neo-Queen Serenity, and her body becomes transparent; her Silver Crystal also loses its power under the influence of its future counterpart. At the end of this story arc, Neo-Queen Serenity tries to resist the temptation of talking to her past self, since it may result in the history being changed... fails, and goes to meet Sailor Moon anyway. The story also involved Prince Demand attempting to bring the world to an end by bringing together the two Silver Crystals.
* NewTransferStudent: Makoto, the guy Ami crushes on, and the Starlights.
* NightmareFuel: You'd be surprised how much this show has, case in point Death Phantom and Zirconia.
* TheNineties
* NoExportForYou: Hi there, ''Sailor Stars.''
** Jetix UK's inablity to air the third and forth season of ''Sailor Moon'' should have probably have been a warning sign in regards to ''{{Naruto}}''...
* NonSerialMovie
* TheNoseBleed: A rare female example with Minako.
* TokenLoli: Chibi-Usa. To a lesser extent, Hotaru.
* NotADate: Rei with a one-shot female character, Maya Touno.
* NotAMorningPerson: Usagi
* NurseWithGoodIntentions: Minako only makes everything worse.
* {{Odango}}
* OfficialCouple: Haruka & Michiru, Usagi & Mamoru.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense (Pluto)
* TheOneGuy: Mamoru/ Tuxedo Kamen
* TheOneTrueSequence
* OnlySixFaces
* OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow: Against Galaxia
* OracularUrchin
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: The Sol Senshi. (Save the Few who aren't in Highschool/Jr. High: Pluto (Collage) and Chibi-Usa (Elementary School)
* OutGambitted: Sailor Moon, after trying to pull a FakeDefector at the end of the first arc.
** Also the reason for DeadLesbianSyndrome striking Sailors Uranus and Neptune a second time in ''Stars''; they apparently didn't notice Galaxia wearing the very same brand of bracelet that can sustain you even after your star seed is removed.
* OutOfClothesExperience: Pops up often, even remaining in the dub. Like in the transformation sequences, however, nothing explicit is observable. It is particularly relevant at the very end of the final episode of ''Stars,'' Sailor Moon spends the last episode completely naked and with wings on her back.
**And you wonder why that season was never dubbed. . .
***The real reason is because someone got the bright idea to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids market it as kiddy fare]] in North America.
* OvertookTheManga: The Maikuju arc is a product of this.
* PaperThinDisguise: No-one can tell that the senshi and their normal selves are the same people because they are wearing tiaras. The world must just be one huge IdiotBall.
**Fanon holds that the Senshi have a some sort of magical glamour. This is supported by the fact that even Senshi can't see through them without it being revealed to them: When Uranus and Neptune show up the other senshi spend a number of episodes in the dark about their civilian forms despite having having met them. The reverse happens when Pluto shows up in her Civillan form the first time, a whole arc after being introduced as a senshi, Usagi needs to be clued in as to who she is at first. The same thing happens between the Starlights and the Senshi of earth, though in the starlights' case they are disguised as men.
** Subverted in the R movie by Fiore.
* ParentalAbandonment: Ami, Rei, Makoto, and the Outers -- Uranus and Neptune already live together by themselves, and Pluto is a college student when she shows up in present day. (Hotaru, on the other hand, is the daughter of one of the key villains in the 3rd arc, and her mother is dead. In the manga, Hotaru lives with the other Outers after her father's death at the hands of the senshi; in the anime, he loses all memory of his villainous activity and raises her until Pluto comes to get her in the last arc; afterwords she lives with the Outers to match up with the manga.)
* PetalPower: Zoicite
* PimpedOutDress: the Moon Princess dress, and the dresses in the "Wedding Day Blues"/"Dream of a White Dress" episode
* PinkySwear
* PlayingWithFire: Rei/Sailor Mars
* PlotHole: Go ahead. Try to explain how sailor crystals/starseeds work. Don't forget to take into account that everyone except Usagi and Mamoru didn't have a sailor crystal until the Dream arc, and that Usagi keeps her sailor crystal, the Silver Crystal, ''outside'' of her body. Also, try to figure out where Sailor Cosmos came from, if Neo-Queen Serenity lost the power to transform after Chibi-Usa was born.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Hotaru, and this was ''after'' she had an age down.
* PowerGivesYouWings: Eternal Sailor Moon. Also in the Climax of the 4th arc in the anime. (She jumps off a building to save a falling Chibi-Moon, the two of them collide with Pegasus and then sprout wings.
* ThePowerOfFriendship
* ThePowerOfLove: If you couldn't tell by the heart shaped compact, the heart shaped rod, which attacks by hitting enemies with a giant heart, this is what causes her upgrade in S.
* PrettyInMink: One of the outfits Minako tries on at the beginning of one of the movies.
* PrimeDirective: Pluto had three of them: 1: Don't let anyone use the Door of Space time. 2: Don't leave your post at The Door of Space-time. 3: Do not use your powers to stop time. Needless to say, she breaks all three of them.
**Only one of them is a plot point. Her first death in the anime and Manga are the result of breaking one of the Taboos and Stopping time. The time and circumstances in the anime and manga differs. In the manga [[spoiler: she does it to stop the villan from touch both Usagi's And Chibi-Usa's Silver Crsytals together. (Which as they are the same object from different points in time would have resulted in a huge paradox) and her death turns Black Lady back into Chibi-Usa and lets her become Sailor Chibimoon]]. In the anime [[spoiler: she simply does it to stop the helicopter she, Uranus and Neptune are in from exploding, thus saving the lives of Uranus and Neptune but getting caught in the blast]].
* PropheticNames: "Tsukino Usagi" is a Japanese homophone for "rabbit of the moon."
* ThePsychoRangers: the Ayakashi Sisters, four of the Witches 5, and the Amazones Quartet.
* PuppyDogEyes: Usagi again
* PutOnABus: Uranus Neptune and Saturn (And Pluto to a lesser extent, though she's dead) in ''Super S''; Chibi-Usa and Mamoru in ''Stars''. Mamoru was put on a plane to be exact. And then killed until the season finale. Lucky for him DeathIsCheap. Chibi-Usa gets caught in a paradox because of this and cesese to exist outside the memories of the Senshi. Even images of her in photos vanish. Only Mamoru's being put on a bus matched up with the Manga, though it doesn't kill Chibi-Moon, just makes the future very unstable.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad
* [[{{Troperiffic}} Quite a lot, aren't there?]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Pretty much everyone in Crystal Tokyo. In the manga, Chibi-Usa claims to be over 900 years old (although this is apparently a fluke). It's stated that the average human lifespan is over 1000 years. Also, King Endymion and Neo-Queen Serenity are ''over'' 1000 years old and don't seem to have aged a day over 25.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Anime only - [[spoiler: Nephrite, Saphir, Demando, the Amazon Trio, half of Sailor Tin Nyanko]].
* RedemptionEarnsLife ([[spoiler:The Amazon Quartet in both versions, Al and En, Professor Tomoe om the anime only]])
* RedStringOfFate: in one episode of SMR Makaiju arc; also mentioned in episode 69
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Massively averted: in the future, Usagi resurrects the advanced civilization of her previous incarnation and changes the world forever.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Everyone in the main cast, Except Chibi-Usa and her Cat Diana, who are the children of Usagi and Mamoru, and Luna and Artemis respectivly
* ReincarnationRomance: Usagi and Mamoru.
* ReliableTraitor: Kunzite
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: Moon's first attack is throwing her tiara.
* ResetButton: Used as a plot element at the end of some season-long arcs
* {{Roofhopping}}
* SailorEarth: FanFic is ''crawling'' with these. Indirect TropeNamer. Canonically, there is ''no'' Sailor Earth as Mamoru has the Sailor Crystal representing Earth, and WordOfGod states only women can be senshi.
**Ironically, Naoko Takeuchi actually {{jossed}} the possibility of extrasolar senshi out there during the time ''Sailor Moon'' took place when it turned out that Sailor Galaxia had killed all of them except for Princess Kakyuu, the Sailor Starlights, and those who had joined Galaxia's side.
* SatelliteCharacter
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Professor Tomoe
* ScienceMarchesOn: Sailor Pluto's [[ByThePowerOfGreySkull transformation call]] sounds pretty silly these days.
* SchoolgirlLesbians: Haruka, Michiru
* SchrodingersCat
* SculptedPhysique: The monster's aesthetics
* SealedEvilInACan: multiple examples
* SealedWithAKiss
* {{Sentai}}
* ShesAManInJapan: Zoicite, Fish Eye
* {{Shojo}}
* ShooOutTheClowns: both straight and inverted.
* ShootYourMate
* ShortRunInPeru: the last 17 R episodes aired in Canada long before they aired in the USA
* ShoutOut: Quite a few, including numerous references to ''KingyoChuihou''
**In episode 104, a ''handsome'' kid dances like [[CrayonShinChan Shin-chan]] in front of Chibiusa, Mr. Elephant included! Poor girl!
* ShyBlueHairedGirl: Ami/Mercury. Appears as the picture for that page.
* SickEpisode: Let's just say that Nurse Venus' bedside manner leaves a lot to be desired, shall we?
* SixthRanger: Initially, Venus though she's less distant than the usual examples. Then the Outers, later the Starlights
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Ami.
* SoLastSeason: Sailor Moon, without fail, will be defeated and get a locket upgrade within the first few episodes. The other Senshi usually just get a casual MidSeasonPowerup instead.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Every new BigBad
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Numerous thanks to the ThemeNaming.
* SpiritBomb: "Sailor Teleport", "Sailor Planet Attack"
* StabTheSky: With scepters, not swords, but still fits this trope
* StealthHiBye: The Outers have a habit of doing this.
* StepThreeProfit: Many of Jadeite's plans involved creating successful businesses out of nowhere. This theme was revisited occasionally throughout the series.
* StockFootage: The transfomation, attack, and heroic introduction sequences.
* StoryArc
* StupidSexyFlanders: vis-a-vis Haruka
* {{Superhero}}
* SurpriseSantaEncounter: in the S movie
* TalkingIsAFreeAction
* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Setsuna and Rei
* TeamSpirit
* TearJerker: Actually, some of the deaths of the Sailor Senshi although [[spoiler: [[IGotBetter they got better]]]]
* TemporaryLoveInterest: One-shot characters. Many.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp
* ThemeNaming: several places, including most villains being named after gems; creator Naoko Takeuchi's hometown Kofu, Yamanashi is famous for its gem industry. Also, the Inner Senshi's surnames relate to their planets and/or powers:
** Mizuno (Ami) = Water / Mercury (''Suisei'')
** Aino (Minako) = The kanji used to represent "ai" refers to love. In Japan, the planet Venus is referred to as ''Kinsei'', which literally translates into "metal star." ''Venus Love Me Chain'' and ''Venus Wink Chain Sword'' evoke her planet's association with metal.
** Tsukino (Usagi) = Moon. "Tsukino Usagi" is a homophone for "Rabbit of the Moon" in Japanese. (While the kanji of her name literally translates into "moon field rabbit," ''no'' is also a particle that works much like the English ''of.'') The "rabbit" refers to a Japanese folktale which states that a rabbit lives on the moon pounding mochi.)
***Chibi-Usa shares the same name as her mother, Chibi-Usa was coined by Mamoru (and the author's Editor Osa-P in the real world)
** Hino (Rei) = Fire / Mars (''Kasei''). Her full name is a Japanese homophone for ''spirit of fire'', similar to one of her attacks.
** Kino (Makoto) = Trees / Jupiter (''Mokusei''). Her powers are actually dually plant- and electricity-based, inspired by the planet's name in both Japanese and English.
* The Outer Senshi (minus one) also have names relating to their roles as Sailors:
** Ten'ou (Haruka) means "Uranus", the ancient Greek sky deity and planet (''Ten'ousei''). "Haruka" means "distant".
** Kaiou (Michiru) means "Neptune" or "Poseidon", the Greco-Roman sea god and planet (''Kaiousei''). "Michiru" means "fill" or "overflow", perhaps relating to her water-based powers.
**Meiou (Setsuna) refers to the god Pluto, and by extension, the (former) planet Pluto (Meiousei). "Setsunai" can mean "sad" or "lonely", both of which fit the character.
** Tomoe (Hotaru) is the OddNameOut, "Tomoe" being a comma-shaped motif popular in traditional emblems. Of course, TheReveal would lose some of its impact if the [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Mad Scientist's Sickly Daughter]] was blatantly named after the one planet that had yet to be represented. "Hotaru" means firefly, which perhaps hints at her true nature. However, her last name does use the same Kanji naming theme using the first character of her planet's name (土) - it just uses a different reading.
* TentacleRope: Just more often with vines.
* ThemeTuneRollCall: in the dub
* ThirdPersonPerson: Palla-Palla in the anime.
* ThisIsADrill: Black Lady (Chibi-Usa's superpowered evil form) wields an umbrella which she turns into an arm-mounted drill.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: occasionly said in the original anime by Sailor Moon herself.
* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: All the bad guys come to Tokyo. It never seems to occur to them to collect energy somewhere they won't be defeated by teenage girls in mini-skirts.
** At least they have a reason in R (they want to kill Chibi-Usa, who came looking for Usagi, and change the current Tokyo enough that the "Crystal Tokyo" of the future will never come to be) but the rest of the time.... It's made even more ridiculous in that whenever the Senshi leave Tokyo.
***To be Fair one main issue in the manga was that all the active senshi were drawn to town by the Dark Kingdom. No matter where they go, the Senshi would have been compelled to go there. Also the other enemies on the other hand in the manga where pretty either after Usagi or the power of the Ginzuishou.
***Minako also trounced the villains elsewhere During her days as Sailor V (such as Eygpt and Greece in the manga and England in the anime).
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Every damn time the girls change into their costumes! (Mocked mercilessly by TheAbridgedSeries.)
* TranslationCorrection: the Robocop joke in Sailor Mercury's visor had a misspelling of "innocent" and the wrong name (Mash_ instead of J. Smith; this was fixed in the North American dub.
* TwoTimerDate: Minako in ''[=SuperS=]''
* TransferStudentUniforms: Makoto
* TransformationSequence: All the main cast. TK once did a very impressive transformation while riding a motorcycle. He also got a standard sequence that was only shown once in the anime.
**Saturn is a slight subversion. She is never shown transforming on screen in any of the 200 anime episodes. The only sequence she has comes from a video game for Sega Saturn.
* {{Troperiffic}}: Just look how long this page is!
* UnusualEuphemism: In one episode, the Senshi are debating who should have the lead role in a play. Makoto says she should have it because she has the largest breasts. The dub changes to "the most talent." [[MemeticMutation This lead to fans sometimes jokingly referring to breasts as "talent."]]
* VictimOfTheWeek: The Rainbow Crystal carriers. And Naru.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment
* VillainExitStageLeft
* VillainSong: Queen Beryl and Galaxia in the anime (the former was not sung by her voice actress but nevertheless is still Beryl's song). Virtually every villain that appears in [[TheMusical the Seramyus]] has either a solo or at the very least a group song as well.
* VisibleSigh
* WeAreTeamCannonFodder
* WeaselMascot: The Moon cats
* WeirdnessMagnet: Naru Osaka, [[FanNickname the Official Energy Source of the Negaverse]]
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Prince Demand keeps making remarks about how beautiful Sailor Moon's eyes are.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: See what happens when you try to market the manga AND the anime as kiddy fare? Chunks get edited out, including the final season of the anime.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Why hello there, third season!
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway
* WhatsASecretFour: [=StarS=] is ''made'' of this trope.
* WhatTheHellHero: Haruka and Michiru think Usagi was too soft on Hotaru toward the end of the third season to effectively rule them in the future.
** In the manga, it was Sailor Moon's turn to chew them out for one count attempted murder (in connection to their being a LeeroyJenkins and trying to kill Hotaru).
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy - Kunzite, Demand, Helios, and in the manga, occasionally Artemis.
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl - Queen Serenity, Viluy, and Sailor Star Healer. And in the Manga, Princess Serenity.
* WholesomeCrossdresser - Haruka; The Starlights in the manga
* WingedHumanoid
* WinterRoyalLady: The BigBad in the Sailor [=MoonS=] movie.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Hotaru/Sailor Saturn in the Death Busters arc, by way of DemonicPossession and [[BecauseDestinySaysSo destiny]].
* WordOfGod: Only women can be Sailor Senshi.
** There cannot be a Sailor Earth because Tuxedo Kamen has Earth's sailor crystal.
* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed
* XanatosGambit: Galaxia awakening Nehellenia
* YaoiGuys: Zoicite and Kunzite, anime only
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Chibi-Usa's pink hair, Pluto's and Neptune's green hair, Mercury's blue hair, and several villains with hair colors. Very few background charcters have odd hair colors, one major exception being Usagi's mother, who has Purple Hair. Others have colors that are fairly odd for Asians but are normal human colors: Minako and Usagi have Yellow hair (Perhaps blond) while Haruka has an actual shade of Blond or white in some Manga artwork. Princess Serenity also has white hair in manga art.
**Chibi-Usa's pink hair is actually commented on by several charcters in the manga, remarking that it's cleary not normal, leading to the fanon speculation that everyone elses hair color is for the viewer only and they actually have rather normal hair colors.
* YouShouldKnowThisAlready: Usagi is the Princess they are all searching for in the first arc, Chibi-Usa is from the Future and is Usagi and Mamoru's Daughter, The Identities of all 10 primary Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen
**I thought ItWasHisSled.
----
<<|NoteworthyAnime|>>[[anime]]
<<|{{Manga}}|>>
<<|TropeOverdosed|>>