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Shadow Galactica
The main antagonists of the fifth and final saga of Sailor Moon. The Shadow Galactica is an empire created by Sailor Galaxia whose mission is to travel all over the galaxy destroying planets, battling Sailor Soldiers and taking their Star Seeds/Sailor Crystals in an attempt to take over the entire universe. The organisation is composed of Sailor Guardians who either betrayed their comrades in order to survive Galaxia's wrath or were forcibly recruited into her ranks. After managing to conquer most of the galaxy Shadow Galactica arrived in our solar system in order to gain the last remaining Star Seeds/Sailor Crystals on Earth, including Sailor Moon's whose power is the strongest in the universe, in order to remake the universe in their own image.
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    In General 
  • Adaptation Expansion: The musicals often added members such as Sailor Pewter Fox, Sailor Titanium Kerokko, Sailor Theta, and an advisor to Galaxia named Sailor Buttress. No, really. Also a male henchman named MC Fly.
  • Adapted Out: Sailors Heavy Metal Papillon, Phi and Chi, and Lethe and Mnemosyne don't appear in Sailor Stars. Not coincidentally, these are the members who don't come to Earth in the manga and instead are encountered when Sailor Moon and her companions go to Zero Star Sagittarius, which they never do in the anime.
  • Dark Magical Girl: All members, especially Galaxia.
  • Deal with the Devil: In the manga, several sailors reference the bargain they've struck with Galaxia: loyalty and servitude, in return for their own planet to rule at the conclusion of Shadow Galactica's conquest. Princess Kakyuu believes these are lies, and that Galaxia will inevitably wipe out her own empire's soldiers as she has everything else. Certainly, Galaxia is not above offing incompetent minions for the crime of failure, but the sort of universe she'd want to preside over after finding her perfect planet is ultimately left ambiguous.
  • Fallen Heroines: Many of Shadow Galactica's members in the manga are former Sailor Guardians that have turned evil. Those that aren't (the Sailor Animamates) killed the Sailor Guardians of their planets to their gain power, though both manga and anime mention that they are being controlled by bracelets that Galaxia has put on them.
  • Hero Killer: Particularly in the manga. With the exception of maybe two occasions, every time one of them shows up, a Guardian either dies horribly or is kidnapped. Also the fact that the Animamates killed the Guardians of their home planets before we're even introduced to them.
  • Human Aliens: Yes, they're from completely different planets. It's not like we've never seen that before.
  • Knight of Cerebus: The story takes a darker and more philosophical turn when Shadow Galactica takes over as the story's main antagonist. Especially in the manga, which leaves Usagi downright traumatized at the rapid deaths of her friends and loved ones at the hands of Galaxia and her minions.

Leaders

    Chaos 

Chaos

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Voiced by: Mitsuko Horie [90s Anime], Mitsuki Saiga (Cosmos) (JP), Carrie Keranen [TV series] (EN) Foreign VAs 
Voiced in the musicals by: Ryuuji Kasahara (Eien Densetsu, Le Mouvement Final)

The final villain of the Sailor Moon series, a dark being that is the source of all evil in the galaxy.


  • Adaptational Heroism: By only a shred in Sailor Stars; it claims it is reaping all the star seeds to end the sailor wars that have plagued the universe for time immemorial, giving it the barest of Freudian excuses versus the purely evil Chaos of the manga.
  • Arc Villain: By the end of the series, it becomes a menacing villain on its own.
  • As Long as There Is Evil: As long as someone has evil in their heart, Chaos can take control of them. In the anime, Chaos also cannot be fully killed as long as evil exists, but it can be pushed back. In the manga, it will live as long as stars are born.
  • Ax-Crazy: Unlike with other villains, it can't be reasoned or bargained with. It only cares about causing destruction.
  • Big Bad: Chaos is the main antagonist of the Sailor Moon series as well as the Shadow Galactica arc.
  • The Chessmaster: In the manga, it orchestrates all of the bad stuff that happens over the course of the series, and manipulates Sailor Galaxia into working towards its goals, as opposed to possessing her.
  • Complete Immortality: The Galaxy Cauldron grants it this, the only flaw of said immortality is its destruction, which has MASSIVE consequences. In the 90s anime it also cannot fully be destroyed, only pushed back and weakened.
  • The Corrupter: In Sailor Stars, it corrupts Sailor Galaxia after she sealed it.
  • Dark Action Girl: In the 90s anime, where she is easily able to hold her own against all the Outer Guardians at once and the Sailor Starlights all fighting together.
  • Dark Magical Girl: It's stated in the manga that Chaos will one day emerge from the Galaxy Cauldron as Sailor Chaos and we're treated to a single panel image of her.
  • The Dreaded: Everyone fears it and for good reason. It can seize the Legendary Silver Crystal and turn into several forms at will. In Sailor Stars, it can even corrupt anyone, like what happened with Sailor Galaxia.
  • Eldritch Abomination: The supreme, unknowable essence of evil and darkness in the setting. An eternal Ancient Evil that every so often creates avatars to do its will.
  • Eternal Villain: As the source of all evil in the galaxy and orchestrator of all of the bad stuff that happens over the course of the series. Queen Metalia, Death Phantom, Pharaoh 90 and Queen Nehellenia (or Nehellenia's cursed mirror in the 90s anime version) were nothing more than embodiments of its will and it is the entity pulling Sailor Galaxia's strings for much of the story. Sailor Guardians exist across the galaxy and have all been engaged in an epic battle against Chaos. Even after being defeated by Sailor Moon, Chaos has survived, and one day it'll be back to likely fight against the Sailor Guardians for eternity until it finally wins.
  • Evil Redhead: In Sailor Stars, it turns Galaxia's hair fully red when it possesses her completely.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Chaos speaks with a voice filer over Sailor Galaxia's voice in the 90s anime, adding an echoed deep tone under her normal voice.
  • Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: As pictured above in Sailor Stars, Chaos wears a massive heap of green eyeshaow once it fully takes Galaxia's body.
  • Fighting a Shadow: In the manga, all of the previous Big Bads were incarnated aspects of Chaos, while Chaos itself has been safely residing in the Galaxy Cauldron.
  • Final Boss: Chaos is the true final villain of Sailor Moon, the absolutely most powerful villain and most dangerous one in the series.
  • God of Evil: The ultimate source of all evil in the galaxy, especially in the anime, where it's all the verse's evil given a will of its own.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: Queen Metalia, Death Phantom, Pharaoh 90 and Queen Nehellenia (or Nehellenia's cursed mirror in the 90s anime version) were nothing more than embodiments of Chaos, carrying on its will to seek out and seize the Silver Moon Crystal in order to obtain the ultimate power necessary to achieve its true goal.
  • Invincible Villain: In the manga, Chaos cannot be destroyed without destroying the Galaxy Cauldron, which would end up dooming the galaxy and perhaps even the whole universe itself to a slow death, as without the Galaxy Cauldron, no more stars are being born, which Sailor Moon is unwilling to do and she instead decides to forcibly drag Chaos deep enough into the Cauldron that its essence is diluted enough that it enters a sort of hibernation/comatose state, though it is only a temporary measure. Ultimately, this will cause Chaos to return at an unspecified time in the future as Sailor Chaos, leading to an age of battle and war.
  • Makeup Is Evil: In the 90s anime Chaos is adorned with green Excessive Evil Eyeshadow and purple lipstick.
  • The Man Behind the Man: Chaos is the evil force behind all the villains of previous arcs, and is even manipulating the Big Bad of the Shadow Galactica arc. In Sailor Stars, it is controlling Sailor Galaxia's body and is responsible for every evil action she has done.
  • Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: It came about as a result of the Sailor Wars in the 90s anime, and claims it seeks to wipe out all life in the universe to end war. However, given that it sadistically torments the Sailor Guardians and seems to take delight in destruction, it clearly has malicious intent.
  • Oh, Crap!: In Sailor Stars, Chaos reacts in horror as Sailor Moon reconnects with Galaxia's personality and purges Chaos from the latter's body.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: It desires to bring an end to the universe and recreate it anew to fit its whims.
  • Paint It Black: Chaos trades in Galaxia's Golden Super Mode armor for pitch black and purple gear.
  • Power Gives You Wings: When it ceases to hold back in the 90s anime, it grows a pair of demonic wings.
  • Power Limiter: In the 90s anime Chaos shatters Galaxia's bracelets when it intends to fight all out, transforming itself into Sailor Chaos/Chaos Galaxia.
  • Precision F-Strike: In certain subs, Chaos swears when referring to Chibi-Chibi, calling her "that damned Light of Hope".
  • Purple Is Powerful: It trades in Galaxia's golden armor for a black, red, and purple version once it stops holding back. It also turns Galaxia's skin a very pale shade of purple.
  • Red and Black and Evil All Over: Chaos is always depicted as a black shadow. When it fully possesses Sailor Galaxia in the 90s anime, it turns her body and costume into a red and black version of itself.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Just before it stops holding back against Sailor Moon, Galaxia's eyes glow a bright, pulsing red.
  • Sadistic Choice: As Chaos is too deeply entrenched in the Galaxy Cauldron, destroying Chaos permanently requires destroying the Galaxy Cauldron, which means no more new star-seeds being born, thus dooming the galaxy (perhaps even the whole universe) to a slow extinction of all forms of life, as well as no more stars being born. Sailor Moon instead decides to forcibly drag Chaos deep enough into the Cauldron that its essence is diluted enough that it enters a sort of hibernation/comatose state, though it is only a temporary measure.
  • Sheathe Your Sword: In the 90s anime, it is only defeated by Sailor Moon refusing to fight it and convincing Galaxia's soul to regain control of her body from Chaos.
  • Suddenly Speaking: By the end of the manga, Chaos finally speaks during Sailor Moon's battle with Sailor Galaxia.
  • Supernatural Gold Eyes: In the 90s anime, when Chaos fully consumes Sailor Galaxia's body.
  • Undeathly Pallor: When it succeeds in fully possessing Galaxia, it turns her skin a deathly white, hinting at her soulless nature.
  • Unseen Evil: Particularly in the manga, where we barely even see what it looks like, though it seems to resemble Metalia.
  • You Have Failed Me: In true Sailor Moon fashion, Chaos is willing to kill anyone should they fail their missions. In the manga, it attempts to murder Galaxia at the Galaxy Cauldron after she brings Sailor Moon to it (although in fairness, Galaxia was planning on backstabbing Chaos first). It's only by Sailor Moon's intervention that Galaxia survives.

    Sailor Galaxia 

Sailor Galaxia

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Voiced by: Mitsuko Horie [TV series], Megumi Hayashibara [Cosmos] (JP), Carrie Keranen (EN), Foreign VAs 
Played in the musicals by: Saori Sara, Tamami Matsumoto, Takemi, Yumie Sakaguchi

  • Adaptational Heroism: In the anime, she was a legendary heroic Sailor Soldier who sealed Chaos inside herself long ago at the climax of the Sailor Wars, and is only trying to take over the galaxy now because Chaos is possessing her. In the manga, she works for Chaos voluntarily out of her own lust for power.
  • All There in the Manual: If you have only read the manga, you wouldn't know that her hair is actually dual-colored — golden-orange and red, specifically — due to the fact that the manga's greyscale images depict her hair as a uniform "white" shade, and the colored cover pages only show her in her armor, in which her long hair being rolled back into her headress and shows only the golden-orange part. Her artbook illustrations, concept art, and Sailor Stars shows her hair's multicolored nature more clearly.
  • Amazing Technicolor Population: When she is fully possessed by Chaos in the anime, her skin turns grey.
  • Arch-Enemy: For Princess Kakyuu in the anime. After Galaxia destroyed her homeworld, Kakyuu fled to Earth in search of the Light of Hope. To Usagi in the manga; her targeted destruction of Usagi's loved ones earns the bitter enmity of Sailor Moon.
  • Badass Boast: A particularly awesome one from the poem preceding her character song. She invites Sailor Moon to battle in space by saying: "Such a tiny planet is not suited for our battleground. It’s not even suited for you."
  • Bad Boss: Her Establishing Character Moment is having her minions killed immediately after they failed their mission to retrieve the Sailor Crystals.
  • Bare-Handed Blade Block: Managed to stop and throw off Sailor Uranus' sword jumping attack with a single hand.
  • Beauty Equals Goodness: She is nowhere near a nice person, but out of all the "main" villains in the manga, she is the most beautiful and the only one to be redeemed by Sailor Moon. Played straight in the anime, where her evil actions are due to demonic possession.
  • Berserk Button: Getting injured will set her off. With the power to back up the position of the strongest Sailor Soldier in the galaxy, she believes herself to be completely untouchable, so when the Starlights finally land a powerful blow that injures her, she completely flips out and kills them, declaring she doesn't want their star seeds anymore and calling them injuring her an unforgivable crime.
  • BFS: In Sailor Stars, she has a giant sword. She doesn't use it that much, though.
  • Big Bad: The main antagonist of the fifth arc. Galaxia did become good towards the end of the series, either by the help of someone telling her about love, or by having Chaos purged from her, in the manga or anime respectively.
  • Bling of War: Wears a golden plate ensemble into battle, in stark visual contrast to her dainty casual wear. Of course, as Usagi learns, she's just as dangerous a combatant in civilian clothes.
  • Break Them by Talking:
    • Gives Usagi a nasty one in the manga, puncturing holes in her hopeful belief that the carnage wrought and the deaths caused can be undone.
    • In Sailor Stars, she spends a huge part of episode 196 toying with the Sailor Starlights by attacking them while she repeatedly tells them how they are nothing more than dust to her and how everything they did to stop her was ultimately meaningless.
  • The Chessmaster: She awakened Queen Nehellenia just in order to force Sailor Saturn to grow up, and therefore being able to capture her fully grown Star Seed.
  • Climax Boss: Despite becoming one of the most powerful villains in the Sailor Moon canon, she's technically not the Final Boss. That's the much eviler and malevolent Chaos.
  • Compressed Hair: She has very long, wavy hair that she somehow manages to keep rolled up tightly enough to fit under her headdress. In the manga at least, it styles itself as she undergoes her Sailor transformation.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Wins most of her fights with contemptuous ease.
  • Dark Action Girl: Galaxia is by far the most powerful villain in the series, delivering a Curb-Stomp Battle to nearly every fight she's in.
  • Dark Magical Girl: The manga version of Sailor Galaxia is what happens when a Dark Magical Girl grows up and comes into full power before meeting her good counterpart. The results are not pretty. She's also a Dark Magical Girl in the anime, although only because Chaos was possessing her.
  • Demonic Possession: In the 90s anime, Galaxia tries turning herself into a can for sealing Chaos and sends her own Star Seed (Chibi-Chibi) away to not get her contaminated. It doesn't work. However, being The Chessmaster she makes preparations to give the new generation of Sailor Guardians a fighting chance against her.
  • Devil in Plain Sight: In the manga she takes full advantage of the fact she can transform to walk up to Usagi and Chibi-Chibi in the park, have a nice chat and then suddenly talk of Star Seeds before attacking.
  • Disc-One Final Boss: Despite being a major threat in the Stars arc, by the time she's defeated by Usagi, there's still another villain for the Sailor Guardian to take down: Chaos.
  • The Dragon: She's Chaos' second-in-command in the manga.
  • The Dreaded: The Guardians and, in Sailor Stars, Galaxia's own subordinates fear her and for good reason. She delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to all the Guardians and (in Sailor Stars at least) would kill her subordinates for any failures.
  • Evil Costume Switch: When the Final Boss Chaos completely overtakes her in Sailor Stars, her golden armor becomes pitch-black, her skin turns pale grey, and her naturally golden/red hair becomes blood red.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Usagi, as an abnormally powerful Dark Magical Girl rather than a normal Magical Girl.
  • Evil Is Petty: In the manga, she once destroyed a planet because a few people on it annoyed her.
  • Evil Redhead: In Sailor Stars, when she is fully corrupted by Chaos in the Grand Finale she becomes "Chaos Galaxia", turning her hair completely red and making her even more vicious than she already was.
  • Evil Versus Evil: Lethe and Mnemosyne recall her conquest of their planets as a good thing, as they were wastelands locked in unending wars. The two consider the "everlasting silence" Galaxia brought preferable to that misery.
  • Face–Heel Turn: In Sailor Stars, Galaxia becomes possessed by the true Big Bad, Chaos, after sealing it inside her.
  • Fallen Heroine: In Sailor Stars, she was once a revered Sailor Guardian who sealed Chaos away into her own body in order to save the galaxy. Unfortunately for her, this made her vulnerable to Demonic Possession.
  • First Injury Reaction: In the anime Stars arc, the Sailor Starlights successfully draw blood from Galaxia with a last-ditch Combination Attack, her first onscreen injury. Unfortunately for them, making Galaxia actually bleed pisses her off so badly that she revokes any semblance of mercy she had been showing and swiftly pulverizes the three of them with the full intent of completely destroying them in body and spirit.
  • Fling a Light into the Future: In the 90s anime, after sealing Chaos within her own body she knew it would eventually corrupt her, so she sent her star seed, the Light of Hope, away (which became Chibi-Chibi) to keep it intact and give future generations a shot at defeating her.
  • For the Evulz:
    • In Sailor Stars, it's fairly clear that the Sailor Animamates' missions were meaningless and meant only to entertain her to begin with, yet she still kills them off when they fail her. Moreover, her offer to Uranus and Neptune and her words after it is accepted imply that she cycled through many, many sets of minions this way. Though not explicitly stated, it is heavily implied that she sent her minions out with the single goal to draw Princess Kakyuu out of hiding. After the Princess finally reveals herself, Galaxia attacks an episode later.
    • Likewise in Sailor Stars, the only reason she empowered Queen Nehellenia was to awaken Sailor Saturn so her star seed could be harvested.
    • In the manga, she's not above offing a failed underling as well.
  • Galactic Conqueror: She is very similar to Marvel Comics' Thanos in her goals of galactic domination.
  • Golden Super Mode: More overt in the manga, where we actually see her transform, but her golden battle gear isn't just a snazzy outfit — it's her sailor make up.
  • Gone Horribly Wrong: In the anime she sealed Chaos within her body and sent out her star seed to power up a Sailor Guardian powerful enough to stop Chaos for good. Unfortunately, this had the effect of giving Chaos the most powerful Sailor body in the galaxy, which quickly caused Chaos to wipe out all life in the galaxy apart from on Earth.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: In Sailor Stars, she awakens Queen Nehellenia from her seal at the beginning of the arc in order to make the Sailor Guardians Star Seeds their absolute strongest and revive the de-aged Sailor Saturn.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: She can snap from calm to a towering temper or a malevolent vindictiveness and back again with terrifying speed given the power she has.
  • Heel–Face Turn: In both the manga and Sailor Stars. In the manga it happens when Usagi says what she really wanted was to be loved and showed her that she needed love, purity, and compassion to be a Sailor Soldier instead of pure power, and in Sailor Stars it happens when Usagi says she still has good in her after expelling Chaos from her body.
  • Hero Killer: She murdered or caused the death of nearly the entire cast.
  • I Just Want to Be Loved: This is another reason for her actions in the manga, instead of doing it for pure power. (Though she doesn't realize it herself till the end, her whole start of darkness was her assuming what she was missing was more power. It wasn't).
  • I Work Alone: She seems to not believe at all in feelings of friendship and love at least while she is possessed by Chaos, that is. In the anime, she outright states in an internal monologue that the only one you can trust in the entire galaxy is yourself, enjoys watching Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune betray their teammates (or so she thinks), and said internal monologue implies it's not the first time she pits Sailor Guardians from the same Solar System against each other for her own amusement. Her non-belief in teamwork is also subtly implied by how Galaxia apparently never told to the Sailor Animamates the real Star Seeds belong to the Sailor Guardians, preferring to do everything herself.
  • The Juggernaut: Sailor Galaxia is just plain unstoppable, casually wiping out anyone unfortunate enough to become her target-including Sailor Venus at her mightiest. It's only when Eternal Sailor Moon goes all-out against her that she meets her exact match... And that only prompts she herself to go all-out. In Sailor Stars, the only attack that manages to even scratch her until Chibi-Chibi becomes the Sword of Hope, anyways is all the Sailor Starlights coming together and firing a desperation attack at her.
  • Kick the Dog: Killing her subordinates for failing to capture the Star Seeds in Sailor Stars. She gets several more in the manga, such as degrading a brainwashed Mamoru, and it's implied that her pastimes include resurrecting defeated opponents just to crush them again.
  • Knight of Cerebus: Both versions.
  • Lady of War: She is a Sailor Guardian who has lived through countless wars. It helps that her suit makes her look like she's wearing armor.
  • Law of Chromatic Superiority: Her bright gold sailor uniform denotes her as the most powerful sailor soldier in the galaxy.
  • Loners Are Freaks: In the manga, it's suggested that her life of solitude helped make her the lovely lady she is today — another way in which she and the socially blessed Usagi contrast.
  • My Greatest Failure: In the manga, it's suggested that her failure to protect her home planet is what first spurred her to the tyrannous pursuit of power.
  • Near-Villain Victory: After killing off the remaining Sailor Guardians towards the end of Sailor Stars, Galaxia has won. Nearly every member of the cast is either dead, except for Sailor Moon, Chibi-Chibi and the Sailor Starlights. Fortunately, Sailor Moon brings Galaxia back to the side of good.
  • No Name Given: Her real name is never stated in either the manga or the anime.
  • No-Nonsense Nemesis: Both anime and manga:
    • In the anime, most of the series is her first freeing Nehellenia to "train" Sailor Moon into getting her final power-up, and then using her minions to draw Kakyuu out. The moment Kakyuu is found, Galaxia enters the fight personally and wipes out all of humanity.
    • In the manga she needs Sailor Moon alive for her plan, so she sends her minions after her... And makes sure she cannot rely on her allies, personally going after Sailor Venus and the Outers, the most dangerous ones.
  • No-Sell: Due to removing her own Star Seed from her body long ago, Galaxia is completely immune to the effects of the bracelets her minions wear. Neptune and Uranus discover this the hard way when they attempt to backstab her.
  • Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Galaxia thinks she's doing what's right and wish to destroy Chaos, though not for any benign reasons in the original manga.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: She wiped out all lifeforms on multiple planets.
  • One-Winged Angel: Towards the end of Sailor Stars, Chaos's manifestation is a powered-up Galaxia. With actual demonic wings and a black uniform.
  • Orcus on His Throne: In Stars Galaxia sends the Animamates out even though she could easily kill nearly everyone who opposed her in a matter of minutes and finally does by the end.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: Sailor Galaxia has enough power to casually destroy planets.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: As the apparent leader of Shadow Galactica, she's easily the most powerful villain in the franchise next to Chaos. In all incarnations she gives a brutal curbstomp asskicking, taking down the Guardians in single blows and the Starlights only last as long as they do because she toys around with them. Usagi doesn't even defeat her in a straight battle note  but only wins by psychological means through showing her kindness that results in her surrendering the battle. Even here, Sailor Moon needed the help of allies to accomplish this.
  • Red and Black and Evil All Over: In the anime, when Chaos takes her body, it gives her an evil makeover by painting her armor black and her hair fully red.
  • Red Baron: The Soldier of Destruction.
  • Redemption Earns Life: In Sailor Stars, she's the only member of Shadow Galactica to survive to the end, thanks to Sailor Moon removing Chaos's corruption from her.
  • Redemption Equals Death: In the manga, it's the act of redeeming herself that kills her, as the bracelet sustaining her Star Seed shatters as a result of her Heel–Face Turn. However, it's implied that she's reborn along with all the other dead Guardians in the end.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: A Trope Codifier for anime villains in general. She has red-orange pupils.
  • Red Is Violent: In Sailor Stars when Galaxia is fully possessed by Chaos her hair turns fully red and she becomes extremely violent.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: In the manga, she redeems herself at the cost of her own life, but in Sailor Stars, she's still alive when Sailor Moon removes Chaos's corruption from her.
  • The Starscream: In the manga she intended for Sailor Moon and Chaos to destroy each other during the Final Battle in order to gain the power of the Galaxy Cauldron for herself. However Chaos saw this coming and is easily able to counter her.
  • Straw Nihilist: Manga Galaxia was convinced that the world was horrible and that life was worthless, seeking power to justify her existence through remaking the galaxy.
  • Turns Red: By the end of Sailor Stars, her hair turns red after Chaos corrupts her into "Chaos Galaxia".
  • Villain Ball: Like Queen Beryl before her, Galaxia takes the You Have Failed Me attitude a little too seriously, to the point that she'll likewise kill an underling who's discovered the Sailor Guardians' identities before they can divulge the information.
  • Voice of the Legion: After transforming into Chaos Galaxia, Galaxia's voice becomes heavily distorted as if many people are speaking at once.
  • What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: In the manga, Galaxia desires to have the strongest star in the universe as her planet. All of her actions before and during the story were done in an attempt to become the strongest Sailor Guardian in existence and to have a planet worthy of her. However, during the final battle, she is exposed to Sailor Moon's supreme hope, purity, and love. This makes her realize that she was never seeking power; what she really wanted all along was love and acceptance, but given her upbringing on her home planet, she had no idea what those things were. As she reaches out to Sailor Moon, recognizing her as the "star" she'd been searching for her entire life, her bracelets shatter and she dies.
  • Winged Humanoid: In Sailor Stars, after being fully possessed by Chaos she grows demonic wings.
  • World's Strongest Woman: In Sailor Stars, Galaxia was, as befits her name, the strongest and most powerful Sailor Guardian in the entire Galaxy before her Face–Heel Turn and kept the title to the end, as far as sheer power is concerned.
  • You Have Failed Me: Galaxia won't hesitate to kill anyone should they fail her.

Sailor Animamates

    In General 

Sailor Animamates


  • Adaptation Expansion: Some musicals have added additional members, such as Sailor Pewter Fox and Sailor Titanium Kerokko (a diminutive of Japanese kero, "frog").
  • Adaptational Heroism: In the manga they're not really Sailor Guardians. They murdered the Guardians of their home planets and were given powers by Galaxia. In Sailor Stars on the other hand it's confirmed by Princess Kakyuu regarding Sailor Tin Nyanko and by extension all of the other Animamates, that they are true Sailor Guardians who were brainwashed by Sailor Galaxia using the bracelets. Whereas in the manga, Luna and Artemis deny that Tin Nyanko is Sailor Mau.
  • Animal Motif: Except Siren, they're all based off animals (and a mermaid is part animal).
  • Ascended Extra: Just like most Quirky Miniboss Squads of Sailor Stars, in the manga they were killed off extremely quickly, some within the very scene they appeared in. In Sailor Stars the first four members appear in multiple episodes, though the others are Adapted Out.
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: The Animamates certainly seem to think so in the anime, considering that until they discover the identity of the Sailor Guardians in our solar system, they target high-profile figures that are either idols, experts in their fields, or burgeoning rookies for True Star Seeds, implying that the Animamates were former celebrities of their home planets. Sailor Lead Crow even lampshades how she never expected a bunch of ordinary-seeming schoolgirls turned out to be the local Sailor Guardians they've been hunting for.
  • Breaking Old Trends: Unlike other Quirky Miniboss Squads, these were not direct counterparts to the Inner Guardians, but rather to the Sailor Guardians from their home world and (in some cases) the Mentor Mascots of the series.
  • Composite Character: The revelation in the anime that Nyanko used to be a heroic Sailor Guardian before being corrupted by Galaxia implies that her true identity may be Sailor Mau, the Guardian that Nyanko was said to have murdered in the manga. In the manga, Luna and Artemis deny that Tin Nyanko is Sailor Mau. This may also be the case for the other Sailor Animamates.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: In Sailor Stars, most of the Animamates suffer the wrath of Sailor Galaxia. In the manga, all of the Animamates are killed by the Sailor Guardians.
  • Evil Counterpart: In Sailor Stars, Aluminum Siren and Lead Crow are Usagi and Rei, but working for the bad guys. This is used to explore how Rei would act if Usagi died, and Rei's death ends up resembling Siren's closely.
  • Hero Killer: They have a high body count in the manga.
  • Human Aliens: All of them are of alien origin and look only a Little Bit Beastly.
  • Little Bit Beastly: Although they look mostly human, Iron Mouse and Tin Nyanko have animal ears and tails, Aluminum Siren has Ear Fins, and Heavy Metal Papillon and Lead Crow are Winged Humanoids, with the latter having additional feathers on her body.
  • The Psycho Rangers: Not to the main characters, but they are apparently the evil counterparts of the Sailor Guardians they stole their Sailor Crystals from. However, barring a single panel of Sailor Coronis, none of those Sailor Guardians were ever seen to confirm this. Also, Lead Crow and Tin Nyanko are evil counterparts to the main characters' Mentor Mascots.
  • The Quisling: According to the manga, every one of them was originally a normal soldier on their respective home planets. They each betrayed and murdered their planet's real Sailor Guardians to pave the way for Shadow Galactica's hordes, and Galaxia rewarded them by making them fake Sailors, hence the "artificial" nature of their names.
  • Theme Naming: Sailor + Metal + Animal.

    Sailor Iron Mouse 

Sailor Iron Mouse aka Nezu Chuukou

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Voiced by: Eriko Hara [TV series], Sena Koizumi [Cosmos] (JP), Katie Leigh (EN) Foreign VAs 

From the planet Chuu.
  • Butt-Monkey: Even her death is somewhat played for laughs.
  • Fan: She seems more invested in her celebrity targets in Sailor Stars by actively following their careers.
  • Killer Rabbit: She is very small and cute and her senshi form is based on a mouse. She's still a villain.
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Out of all of the Sailor Animamates, she's the least menacing.
  • Meaningful Name: In the anime, she uses the name Nezu Chuukou. "Nezu" comes from the word "nezumi" (鼠), meaning "mouse." "Chuu" (ちゅう) is the sound of a mouse's squeak.
  • Older Than They Look: Nezu Chuuko is small and cute enough to resemble a child, but her job and choice of attire suggest she's at least an adult.
  • Pretty in Mink: Her gloves and shoulders are trimmed with white fur, in addition to her white fur earmuffs.
  • Running Gag: She carries an old-fashioned black phone with her to keep in contact with Galaxia, and whenever it starts ringing, anyone nearby think it's their phone ringing as they check their bags.
  • Smug Snake: In Sailor Stars. Sometimes played for comedy, though. Even in the episode where she dies.
  • Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Sailor Iron Mouse wasn't a very serious villain, but when she failed, she was (rightly) terrified of how her boss would react.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Gets killed by Galaxia in Sailor Stars. In the manga, she gets killed in her first appearance.

    Sailor Aluminum Siren 

Sailor Aluminum Siren aka Reiko Aya

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Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue [TV series], Ayumu Murase [Cosmos] (JP), Faye Mata (EN) Foreign VAs 

Aluminum Siren comes from the planet Mermaid. In the manga she only appears in one scene during Act 52 where she's quickly killed off but Sailor Stars expanded her role.

  • Adaptational Comic Relief: Sailor Stars turns her into a ditzy Cloud Cuckoo Lander, contrasting the deadly monster she was in the manga.
  • Adaptational Wimp: In Sailor Stars, Siren relies predominantly on her bracelets, and has no real fighting prowess. In the manga her Galactica Tsunami attack grants her Prehensile Hair which she uses to kill Mercury and Jupiter; in Sailor Stars the attack is just her throwing drink items.
  • Affably Evil: She's so nice, soft-spoken and polite, it's easy to forget she's a villain. She hands out business cards to her targets. Not so much in the manga.
  • Animal Motif: In Cosmos, she's heavily associated with jellyfish which she summons for her Galactica Wave (changed from Galactica Tsunami) attack.
  • Anti-Villain: In Sailor Stars, she is easily the most sympathetic of the Sailor Animamates.
  • Batman Gambit: After discovering Usagi's secret identity as Sailor Moon, Siren sent Usagi a ticket to an airline featuring the Three Lights with the implied threat of harming everyone on board, including the celebrity trio. Usagi naturally went and was willing to follow through with Siren's demands to keep everyone safe. And she would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling Inner Guardians who happened to be on the same plane and for the Three Lights being the Sailor Starlights as well.
  • Big Eater: She either complains about having an empty stomach or eats any good meal in her surroundings before attacking her victims. Much to Lead Crow's despair.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer:
    • Though she's the least evil villain on the team outside of battle, once she's in a fight she's absolutely vicious. Lamp Shaded in Sailor Stars.
    • Also, she found out Sailor Moon's identity. Had she not died before she could tell anyone, the final season would have been much shorter. Although she did write it down in her diary, which Lead Crow later finds.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: She's rather out there and often has her priorities mixed up. In Sailor Stars, she is known to give her business card out to targets and the Guardians just because she thinks it's the right thing to do.
  • Dark Action Girl: In the manga. She wasted no time in killing Mercury and Jupiter.
  • The Ditz: Often seems spacey and flighty.
  • Died in Your Arms Tonight: Specifically, Lead Crow's.
  • Ear Fins: Her ears look like fish fins, although she can hide them when she's disguised as a human.
  • Evil Counterpart: In Sailor Stars, she's basically Evil Usagi. Not Evil Sailor Moon, Usagi, as her interactions with Lead Crow are disturbingly similar to Usagi and Rei's interactions.
    • Because of her association with water though she could also be considered one to Sailor Mercury. Ironically she is also responsible for her death, as well as Jupiter's in the manga.
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: She is utterly ditsy and useless in the anime. Which makes her death by Galaxia much worse.
  • Missed Him by That Much: In episode 184, Aluminum Siren and Lead Crow go to Usagi's house to steal the Star Seed of a TV personality, only to find a blank Star Seed. This, in a night when Usagi's house was crowded with people with real Star Seeds (Usagi herself, the Inner Guardians, Haruka and Michiru, and the Starlights). Had Aluminum Siren and Lead Crow bothered to try to extract the Star Seeds of everyone in the house, they could have returned to Galaxia with a real Star Seed.
  • Morality Pet: To Lead Crow in Sailor Stars. And she remains this even after she dies. Lead Crow's last words just before she's engulfed by a black hole are "I'm sorry, Siren."
  • Navel-Deep Neckline: Her costume is open in the middle all the way to her navel, leaving little to the imagination.
  • Nice Girl: A rare villainous example.
  • Our Mermaids Are Different: She comes from planet Mermaid, her people are implied to be merpeople, but unlike most mermaids, she has humanoid legs instead of a tail. She also has Ear Fins.
  • Passive Aggressive Combat: She weaponizes her politeness against Sailors Uranus and Neptune by pointing out they're standing on Usagi's dining room table.
    Sailor Aluminum Siren: I don't believe this!
    Sailor Lead Crow: That's right, you tell them!
    Sailor Aluminum Siren (horrified): Don't they know people have to eat off that table?
    Sailor Uranus: Oh, we didn't realize.
    Sailor Neptune: We're sorry.
  • Prehensile Hair: In the manga. She uses it to choke Mercury and Jupiter to death, before ripping out their Star Seeds.
  • Sirens Are Mermaids: Despite her name she draws on Mermaid motifs: Comes from Planet Mermaid, and killed Sailor Mermaid, has an overall blue color scheme, a seashell charm on her choker, her attack, Galactia Tsunami, is water based. (In Sailor Stars it is just her throwing juice boxes and water bottles). Her anime civilian name, Reiko Aya, even contains a pun on Mermaid. She does not sing and aside from her relationship with Lead Crow, has no connection to birds.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Her discovery of the identities of the Sailor Guardians sets up the last seven episodes of Sailor Stars. Siren wrote down their names in her diary, which is found by Lead Crow in 193 and exposes not only their names to Sailor Tin Nyanko but draws out Princess Kakyuu. In a way, Siren's actions are the ones responsible for instigating the climax of the last season.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Fans can't seem to decide if she's called "Sailor Aluminum Siren" or "Sailor Aluminum Seiren". "Siren" is more common due to its significance though, as well as its basis on the katakana.

    Sailor Lead Crow 

Sailor Lead Crow aka Akane Karasuma

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Voiced by: Chiharu Suzuka (JP) [TV series], Yōko Hikasa [Cosmos], Andi Rich (EN) Foreign VAs 

From the planet Coronis, also the homeworld of Phobos and Deimos in the manga.
  • Anti-Villain: In Sailor Stars. Although she's not as sympathetic as her partner Aluminum Siren, it later becomes clear that she's only fighting for her and Siren's survival.
  • Broken Bird: Siren's death really messes her up, and most of her appearances afterwards show she's increasingly losing hope of staying alive. You can actually pinpoint the exact moment Lead Crow finally gives up literal seconds before she dies.
  • Butt-Monkey: Whenever she had to be the Straight Man for Siren.
  • Bound and Gagged: She gets tied up and gagged by Sailor Tin Nyanko in the backstage area, so her rival can take her place.
  • Can't Spit It Out: When asked why she followed her to Earth, a flustered and angry Lead Crow tells Siren "I came because I was worried about you, my rival!" This is a subversion in that while she does tell Siren she's worried about her, it's always about their fictional rivalry.
  • Dark Action Girl: In Sailor Stars, she sent Venus and Mercury flying into a stone wall with enough strength for their bodies to form craters, and Mars and Jupiter into a greenhouse.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Rei in Sailor Stars. Her Tsundere habits with Siren are quite similar to Rei's tendencies with Usagi.
  • Good Wings, Evil Wings: In both the anime and manga, she's shown to possess a large pair of black crow's wings. In the anime, however, they're only seen when she's in Galaxia's throne room.
  • Hoist by Her Own Petard: In Sailor Stars she is killed by the black hole she herself brought to threaten the Sailor Guardians with, though she had "assistance" from Tin Nyanko. This makes Lead Crow the only Sailor Animamate to not be killed by Galaxia.
  • Insistent Terminology: She frequently refers to Siren as her rival, adding in "Eternal," "Former," and "Precious" on a regular basis. But absolutely nothing about the two says rivalry other than Crow repeatedly stating the fact, to the point that she actively hunts for Siren's targets. It seems the only reason Crow calls Siren a rival is to get her to take her job more seriously so Galaxia doesn't kill her. It fails.
  • Meaningful Name: Sailor Lead Crow used the pseudonym "Akane Karasuma" in the anime series. "Akane" (茜) means "madder," a shade of red, and "karasu" (鴉) means "crow," making her name mean "red crow," a pun on "Lead Crow."
  • Missed Him by That Much: See Aluminum Siren's entry above. In episode 184, Aluminum Siren and Lead Crow go to Usagi's house to steal the Star Seed of a tv personality, only to find a blank Star Seed. This happened when Usagi's house was crowded with people with real Star Seeds (Usagi herself, the Inner Guardians, Haruka and Michiru, and the Starlights). Had Aluminum Siren and Lead Crow bothered to try to extract the Star Seeds of everyone in the house, they could have returned to Galaxia with a real Star Seed.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: Less so than Aluminum Siren. Crow is always the more serious of the two, and shows just how deadly she is when sends the Inner Guardians flying into stone and glass walls and threatens to unleash a black hole capable of killing thousands if she doesn't get Usagi's star seed.
  • Pass the Popcorn: She often loves to stand back and watch when Siren starts acting vicious on a target.
  • Tsundere: In Sailor Stars, towards Aluminum Siren. Even if you don't ship them together, you can't ignore how she nagged on her partner but ultimately cared for her.
  • Whip of Dominance: She wields a whip in battle and is a bossy and domineering villainess whose outfit resembles that of a dominatrix. She doesn't actually use the whip very often, but she's often shown prominently with it in promotional material.
  • Winged Humanoid: She has a humanoid form with a pair of black crow wings.

    Sailor Tin Nyanko 

Sailor Tin Nyanko aka Suzu Nyanko

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Voiced by: Ikue Otani [TV series], Mariya Ise [Cosmos] (JP), Corina Boettger (EN) Foreign VAs 

From the planet Mau, also the homeworld of Luna and Artemis in the manga.
  • Anti-Villain: In the manga (definitely not in Sailor Stars, although this is because she's Brainwashed and Crazy.)
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: In the anime, Sailor Tin Nyanko is a Sailor Guardian brainwashed by Galaxia's bracelets. When Sailor Moon partially purifies her by knocking one off, she alternates between trying to stop herself from committing evil actions and doubling down on them.
  • Bondage Is Bad: Her outfit resembles a dominatrix outfit, complete with shiny black leather, and she is evil. When she is partially freed from Galaxia's control her outfit partially turns white and less leathery in appearance.
  • Bound and Gagged: She ties up and gags Sailor Lead Crow in the backstage area to take her place.
  • Cats Are Mean: Subverted. She is the most sadistic and cruel of the Animamates in the 90s anime, but she tries encouraging the Sailor Guardians to flee from Galaxia when she's fighting off her brainwashing.
  • Cat Girl: She's clearly based on a cat. "Nyanko" is taken from "nyan" (the Japanese onomatopoeia of a cat's meow) and "ko" (a suffix meaning "child"). In the manga it is revealed that she comes from the same planet, and is the same species, as Luna and Artemis.
  • Composite Character: The revelation in the anime that Nyanko used to be a heroic Sailor Guardian before being corrupted by Galaxia implies that her true identity may be Sailor Mau, the Guardian Nyanko was said to have murdered in the manga.
  • Dark Is Evil: She wears all black and is the most evil of the Animamates in the anime. When one of Galaxia's bracelets is knocked off, her uniform becomes partially white.
  • Devil in Plain Sight: In the manga she enrolls at Juuban High under her civilian persona and befriends Usagi. She infiltrates the school in similar fashion in Stars, but only to get onto the campus, not to attend school.
  • Dirty Coward: In Sailor Stars, she almost never attacks anyone directly, believing it's smarter to attack from behind.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Especially to Lead Crow in Sailor Stars. Her directly mocking Crow immediately after mocking Siren while Galaxia killed her is followed by Tin Nyanko halfheartedly acting as though they're friends even as she sabotages Lead Crow's missions and kills her.
  • Good Wears White: When she is partially healed by Sailor Moon, half of her outfit becomes white, and she is revealed to have a good and kind personality when she isn't being controlled by Galaxia's bracelets.
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam: Sailor Moon manages to partway purify her by hitting one of her bracelets and destroying it; this causes one side of her uniform to turn white and her to be torn between acting good or evil. Galaxia will have none of this and kills her off before Sailor Moon can finish. Granted, this kind of implies that the purification probably would have killed Tin Nyanko, anyway, since Galaxia only had to remove the other bracelet to kill her off.
  • Manipulative Bitch: She manipulates Galaxia into killing Aluminum Siren in Sailor Stars out of a desire to take her place, convincing Galaxia that Siren was lying about knowing the identity of a Sailor Guardian.
  • Meaningful Name: She uses the name "Nyanko Suzu" as an alias, "Nyanko" (にゃんこ) meaning "kitten" and "Suzu" (鈴) meaning "bell." Tin Nyanko wears a great deal of cat bells in her Sailor uniform.
  • Paint It Black: Her costume turning white when one of Galaxia's bracelets was destroyed suggests her uniform was initially white and turned black under Galaxia's brainwashing.
  • Professional Slacker: She has little interest in working while Lead Crow is around, instead simply attempting to poach Crow's targets after doing her nails. That being said, she tries harder to actually get a Star Seed once she's the last subordinate standing.
  • Psycho Electro: In the manga and Cosmos, her Galactica Puppet attack takes the form of electricity being fired from her bracelets. The electricity resembles strings that latch onto the wrists of her targets and shocks them. Cosmos shows it's capable of freezing her targets as if they were puppets on strings, allowing her to torment them at her leisure the way a cat plays with its prey.
  • Smug Snake: In spite of all of her posturing, she's a more ineffectual villain than her fellow Animamates.
  • The Sociopath: Her Brainwashed and Crazy persona in Sailor Stars is devoid of any empathetic qualities whatsoever.
  • Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: She has yellow eyes, foreshadowing her sociopathic and backstabbing behavior.
  • You Have Failed Me: Killed by Sailor Galaxia after failing in her mission towards the end of the series.

    Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon 

Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon

Voiced by: Haruka Kudō (JP)
From the planet Cocoon. The last and most formidable Animamate, she appears only in the manga and Musicals.
  • Action Mom: A surprisingly evil variant, though her being a mother isn't touched upon in the series proper.
  • Adapted Out: The only member of the Animamates to not appear in Sailor Stars. She will, however, be appearing in Crystal.
  • All There in the Manual: The artbooks list her as a Samba dancer and a mother. They're also the source of the name of her planet. The Materials Collection artbook also reveals her coloring, which is very bright and vivid.
  • Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: She turns the souls of all the Crystals that Galaxia captured into butterflies. When she is first introduced, she is surrounded a swarm of them.
  • Gratuitous French: "Papillon" is French for "butterfly."
  • Fanon: Because she is said to have a child (in fact, she's the only Sailor Guardian besides Sailor Moon to be confirmed to be a mother), it's commonly speculated by the fandom that she joined Shadow Galactica so that Galaxia would spare her child's life. invoked
  • Playing with Fire: Her Galactica Scales attack is fire-based.
  • Winged Humanoid: She resembles a human with a pair of large butterfly wings.

Others

    Sailor Phi and Sailor Chi 

Sailor Phi and Sailor Chi

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Sailor Chi
Phi voiced by: Fumie Mizusawa (JP)
Chi voiced by: Yuka Komatsu (JP)

Star gardeners who watch over the Sailor Crystals Galaxia's other minions harvest. The two are actually directly in charge of the Sailor Animamates under Galaxia's orders.


  • Adaptation Expansion: Some musicals make them a trio by adding Sailor Theta. In one version they work under MC Fly on Earth and go by the aliases Shadow Mantis (Chi), Sailor Bee (Phi) and Shadow Bug (Theta).
  • Adapted Out: The two of them are absent from Sailor Stars and are only prominent in the manga.
  • Ambiguous Situation: Whether they were given pseudo Sailor powers by Galaxia like the Animamates they supervise or are true Sailor Soldiers turned to her side like Lethe and Mnemosyne.
  • Avenging the Villain: After Sailor Phi is killed by Sailor Moon, Chi is so enraged that she shoves her staff straight through Sailor Kakyuu's chest until it reaches the floor.
  • Ax-Crazy: They are easily the most violent of Galaxia's minions.
  • Creepy Twins: Possibly. They look alike and have similar names but they aren't outright called sisters.
  • The Dragon: The most prominent reoccurring members of Shadow Galactica besides Galaxia herself.
  • Hero Killer: They kill off Lethe, Mnemosyne and the Starlights, and Chi personally kills Kakyuu. They have a total body count of six guardians between them.
  • Noblewoman's Laugh: In the manga, their Evil Laugh is a prominent "OHOHOHOHOHO" as they kill Lethe and Mnemosyne.
  • Plant Person: Invoked. Their role as Star Gardeners and Phi's attack "Galactica Plant Blizzard" has more to do with their harvest of Sailor Crystals than foliage.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Chi's name is pronounced "Kai" and Phi's name is pronounced "Fy." Chi's name is rendered in japanese as "セーラーX" or Sailor X, leading some fans to mistake it for Sailor X. Meanwhile Phi's name is written as "セーラーΦ", or Sailor Φ.

    Sailor Mnemosyne and Sailor Lethe 

Sailor Mnemosyne and Sailor Lethe

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Mnemosyne voiced by: Kanae Itō (JP)
Lethe voiced by: Shiori Mikami (JP)

From the planets Mnemosyne and Lethe. The two guard the Desert River of Oblivion on the outskirts of the Sagittarius Zero Star and are in charge of wiping out the memories of any trespassers that enter the Shadow Galactica territory. Unlike the majority of the minions under Galaxia's command, the two were both true Sailor Soldiers before joining Shadow Galactica. They signed up willingly after their planets' demise because their worlds were always at war with each other and Galaxia had made them peaceful by wiping out all life. Sailor Lethe is the Soldier of Truth and Sailor Mnemosyne is the Soldier of Memory.


  • Adapted Out: The two of them are absent from Sailor Stars and are only prominent in the manga.
  • Ambiguously Related: How they can be twin sisters, as they're indeed said to be, while representing different planets.
  • Anti-Villain: Mnemosyne and Lethe joined Galaxia because they truly believed she would bring order to the universe, something they desperately wanted since their planets were engulfed in an endless war.
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam: Mnemosyne feels sorry for Sailor Moon and restores her memory after Lethe erases it, then convinces Lethe to join her in helping Sailor Moon. Both she and Lethe then get killed off by Sailors Phi and Chi for turning on Shadow Galactica immediately afterwards.
  • Hero Killer: Lethe murders Luna, Artemis and Diana while they're amnesiac.
  • Meaningful Name: Lethe and Mnemosyne are both named after figures in Greek Mythology. Lethe is named after one of the rivers in Hades; it was known as the "river of forgetfulness" because all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness. This is exactly what happens to those who drink from Sailor Lethe's river. In addition, "Lethe" was a goddess who was the personification of forgetfulness and oblivion. On the other hand, Mnemosyne was the Titan goddess of memory and remembrance and mother of the Muses. Likewise, Sailor Mnemosyne is capable of returning the memories of anyone who drank from Sailor Lethe's river.
  • Redemption Equals Death: As soon as they decide to let Sailor Moon pass, Phi and Chi one-shot blast them to death.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Lethe is the much more aggressive of the two sisters, attacking Sailor Moon and the rest of her entourage and blaming her for the state of the universe. Mnemosyne is much more passive and tries to stop her sister from attacking Moon because she's sick of seeing Sailor Soldiers kill each other.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: Lethe is the tomboy to Mnemosyne's girly girl.

    Phage 

Phage

"False Sailor Guardians" used as the Monster of the Week in the fifth season of Sailor Stars. They do not exist in the manga, however, and were created as filler.
  • Ax-Crazy: They attack everyone around them, without provocation.
  • Laughably Evil: Some of them are, well, damn funny. Until they properly attack.
  • Madness Mantra: One of the phage was created from a famous artist named Kengo Ibuki who had the bad habit of breaking his creations while screaming "This... this is imperfect!" whenever he went through artistic slumps. Once he was morphed into Sailor Artist, he retained said bad habit. His cousin Rei/Mars saw him and recognized him as Kengo, as she'd once witnessed his slumps, and managed to calm him down enough for Moon to purify him.
  • Meaningful Name: "Phage" comes from the Greek word for "to eat" or "to consume". it also refers to the bacteriophage viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria.
  • Oh, Crap!: Whenever Sailor Moon purifies one of them.
  • One-Gender Race: Averted, they were created from both men and women.
  • The Ojou: One Phage was created from a Rich Bitch and TV actress named Noriko Okamachi. She was called Sailor Ojou.

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