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alt title(s): Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon; Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon 
Moon Prism Power, Make-UP!
Sailor Moon (Full title, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon) is the story of Usagi Tsukino ("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 other 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 the strength of each set of foes escalating, and even non-combative elements of the show had a strong case of So Last Season; obscure allies and Ascended Extras 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 Magical Girl genres, forever redefining the latter. It has become known as the archetypal Magical Girl show and has been widely imitated and parodied. Created by pharmacist-turned-manga-author Naoko Takeuchi, Sailor Moon 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 Magical Girl series Futari Wa Pretty Cure is largely seen as attempting to replicate its success.
The North American dub of Sailor Moon is infamous for the amount of 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 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, An Aesop 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 ADV Films before going out of print again. Toei had quietly pulled the license to the franchise worldwide and non-bootlegged DVDs now go for a great deal of money online, but now that's changed due to the 200 episode series getting relicensed and will be getting a rebroadcast in fall 2010 in Italy, and TOEI said they plan for a global revival of the series, which means the series may see the light of day again in North America .
As bad as the DiC dub was, however, it was downright faithful compared to what a small company known as Toon Makers wanted to do with it. Watch the sheer horror here! (And make sure to have plenty of Brain Bleach on hand. Trust us.)
Of course, there are fans who like or condone the dub...
Also, a live-action version appeared on Japanese television between October 2003 and October 2004. Forty-nine episodes were broadcast of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, which established itself as a completely separate continuity unrelated to either the manga or the anime.
The show's influence created the stereotypical image in the West of a Magical Girl being a Magic Warrior rather than a Cute Witch; 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 Ranma 1/2. Fan Fic crossovers between Sailor Moon and Ranma 1/2 are unusually common, to the point that they've developed their own sub-genre: the Fuku Fic.
The core characters are:
Aiding them are:
- Chiba Mamoru, Tuxedo Kamen.
- Luna and Artemis, the team's mentors and talking cats
Later additions to the team include:
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) — Codename Sailor V. Also has a Set of Stage Musicals known as the Sera Myu
This show provides examples of:
- The Abridged Series (Sailor Moon Abridged)
- Achilles In His Tent: 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, but 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.
- Adaptation Decay or Adaptation Distillation. The anime and/or dub. Your Mileage May Vary.
- A Japanese newspaper actually praised the dub for giving Luna a British accent.
- Some fans actually prefer Zoisite as a woman, or at least liked Kirsten Bishop's performance, but I digress.
- Some fans found that Usagi became obnoxiously ditzy in the anime, although some preferred her sweeter personality. (Usagi redeemed villains in the anime who ended up blasted to bits in the manga.)
- Agony Beam: 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. She stands up.
- Aliens And Monsters:throughout the series' entire run
- Alien Animals: Luna and Artemis.
- Aliens Speaking English: Or Japanese, as the case may be.
- Allergic To Love: Ami in one of the side stories
- Aloof Ally: Sailors Neptune and Uranus. The aloof allies.
- Alternate Continuity: The animé and the Manga. Not to mention the live-action series Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
- Amazon Brigade: The Sailor Senshi, the Amazones Quartet.
- Anachronism Stew: 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.
- Let's not forget that in the manga, all the Senshi have ancient castles named after moons belonging to their respective planets; the exceptions are Mercury and Venus, whose castles are named after American spacecraft sent to probe those planets in the latter half of the 20th century....Whut?
- And Knowing Is Half The Battle: "Sailor Says", North America only
- Angst What Angst: Some of the main characters fill this trope: two characters were orphaned at an early age (Jupiter and Tuxedo Mask), two have dead mothers (One of which has a Big Bad for a father and thus becomes orphened, while the other hates her father, Saturn and Mars resectivly), one is the child of divorce (Mercury), and three never have their parents mentioned at all (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.) Only three characters have whole nuclear families (incidentally, these are the happier, more-or-less well-adjusted characters: Moon, Chibi-Moon and Venus. Thanks to the show being very much leaning on the idealistic side of the scale, this hasn't turned it into Dysfunction Junction.
- Americans Hate Tingle: Although Japanese audiences were quite fond of Chibi-Usa, in the US she's often seen as The Scrappy, often taking the brunt of criticism for the fourth series because it's basically centered around her.
- Americans love Chibi-Chibi, though. It might help that she doesn't really talk much.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: 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 exasperation with her sometimes.
- In the live-action he's a more faithful adaptation of this trope, as he spends most of his time playing video games and largely treats Usagi like an idiot.
- The Anti Christ: Mistress 9
- Apocalypse Maiden: Sailor Saturn
- Ascended Extra: 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.
- Battle Aura: Everyone
- Battle Royale With Cheese: In the first and last season
- Badass Bookworm: Ami, Taiki
- Badass Decay: Mamoru in the anime, less so in the manga
- Because Destiny Says So: Crystal Tokyo. 'Nuff said.
- Berserk Button: It was established in the 13th episode that anyone who makes sexist remarks within earshot 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 Plane Fu on him for that offense.
- Beware The Nice Ones: In the manga, where Usagi will really punish you in the name of the moon for your evil deeds - with lethal magical force.
- Bicep Polishing Gesture
- Bifauxnen: Haruka, and the Starlights in the manga.
- Big Bad: 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 Big Bad in the manga.
- Big Budget Beef Up
- Big Eater: Usagi
- Big No: Usagi during the climax of the final season after 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 Skyward Scream after she starts yelling.
- Bishonen Prince Demand, Saphir, Mamoru Chiba, Al, etc. Most major male characters, really.
- Bishoujo Every major female character with the exception of Zirconia, who looks like Nehelenia if Nehelenia were to grow old.
- The Blank: One makeup-themed Monster Of The Week accidentally erased her own face. She was trying to draw it back with eyebrow pencil when Sailor Moon zapped her.
- Bragging Theme Tune: Only the American dub.
- Brainwashed And Crazy: 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).
- And in the manga, Amazones Quartet.
- Brother Chuck: 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 (usually as monster attack victims), and the writers were nice enough to awkwardly pair off Usagi's main two school chums before they vanished.
- Brother Sister Incest: 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.
- Bunny Ears Lawyer: Professor Tomoe, a Mad Scientist who goes on rants about delicious coffee.
- By The Power Of Greyskull: "[Planet] [Something] Power, Make-up!" The dub usually just took off the "Make-up!", but sometimes you got things like "Moon Cosmic Dream Action!"
- Cake Eater: Hawk's Eye of the Amazon Trio
- Calling Your Attacks: 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. Theories on why vary.
- Car Fu: Episode 13 features an instance of Plane Fu.
- And let's not forget that impressive bit of Motorcycle Fu that Haruka and Michiru pull off in their intro episode.
- Cast Speciation
- Chained Heat: Moon and Uranus in a Sailor Moon S episode
- Character Exaggeration
- Circus Of Fear: "Dead Moon Circus" in SuperS
- Clothes Make The Legend: The Sailor's fuku.
- Coat Hat Mask: Tuxedo Kamen. Who does not, in fact, wear a tuxedo.
- Commander Contrarian: The anime made Haruka into this. Rei was Flanderized into this in the DiC dub.
- Crash Into Hello: Subverted in one episode where Rei goes Wrong Genre Savvy and tries to deliberately engineer this to meet Mamoru. She ends up falling flat on her face and he walks past her.
- Creepy Child: Hotaru. Chibi-Usa is one in Episode 60 and arguably the other episodes.
- Critical Research Failure: The Solar system was a cloud of gas only 4.5 million years ago? Try billion.
- Crystal Spires And Togas: The aptly named "Crystal Tokyo"
- Cute Shotaro Boy : Perle
- Dark Magical Girl: Hotaru (somewhat), Black Lady, and the Shadow Galactica.
- Dead Lesbian Syndrome: Haruka and Michiru both seem to suffer from this, as they've been mowed down twice in the anime. Subverted both times as they got better within the next couple of episodes.
- Bury Your Gays: Zoisite is executed by Queen Beryl just for his Take No Prisoners attitude (he was explicitly ordered to take Tuxedo Kamen alive). Kunzite joins him later on after Sailor Moon turned his own attack on him.
- Death Is Cheap: One of Sailor Moon's powers is explicitly resurrection, so expect main characters to die at least once per storyline.
- Demonic Invaders: All the bad guys.
- Designated Victim: Naru Osaka.
- Determinator: Usagi might serve as a poster girl for this trope. Other Sailor Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen have remarkable Heroic Willpower as well.
- Die For Our Ship: Oh, Mamoru.
- Did Not Do The Research: Despite his name, Tuxedo Kamen wears full evening dress, not a (semi-formal) dinner jacket.
- Dirty Old Man: Rei's grandfather, but only in the anime.
- Do Not Adjust Your Set: Galaxia does this right before the final battle against her. This is fitting because her base is the Ginga TV station, which her minions claim they work for when they use their disguises.
- Dont You Dare Pity Me: Nehellenia, so much.
- The Dragon: Every. Single. Season. Including one who eventually becomes a literal dragon.
- Dream Mirror: Trope Namer, each season had at least one new item.
- Dress Coded For Your Convenience
- Dropped A Bridge On Him: 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, 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.
- The anime isn't much better. She gets about 2 episodes worth of screen time before she gets killed. She gets better after the final battle due to Sailor Moon.
- In Sailor Moon S, Mimete teleports herself into cyberspace, makes a big intro, and announces that being in the computer increases her power tenfold. Just as you're expecting an epic battle, Telulu walks in and pulls the plug, effectively 'deleting' Mimete.
- Dub Induced Plot Hole: On top of just plain Inconsistent Dubbing, some incredibly unique plot inconsistencies popped up in the dubbing.
- How did Kaolinite know that Uranus and Neptune were cousins?
- Dub Name Change: Just about all of them.
- Dub Text: Sailors Uranus and Neptune.
- Ducks In A Row
- Elemental Rock Paper Scissors: 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.
- Eleventh Hour Superpower: Princess Serenity typically appeared during final battles.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: The creators were hugely surprised when Ami was the most popular Sailor Senshi, worldwide.
- The End Of The World As We Know It: 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.) The entire universe gets better though.
- Even The Girls Want Her: Haruka. Her introduction in all versions involves more than one of the Inner Senshi falling in love with her, with a few still nursing crushes even after they realize she's a girl. In the manga, Usagi isn't even remotely reluctant to admit that she thinks Rei Hino is gorgeous. The Sailor Starlights as well, but they're thought to be male at first. Usagi also thinks Miciru has very "Princess-like" qualities and admires her for it.
- Even The Guys Want Him: 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. Technically speaking, every series of senshi throughout the galaxy has a true princess they protect.
- Everythings Better With Spinning: The Title character beyond a doubt. Almost all of her transformations and attacks feature at least one spin. Also Jupiter Oak Evolution.
- Evil Costume Switch: Endymion, Galaxia, and especially Black Lady
- Expressive Hair: Usagi. Just... Usagi.
- Extra Strength Masquerade
- Facial Markings
- Fairy Tale Motifs: The first part of the fifth season is very predictable if you're familiar with Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen.
- Fake Boss
- Fake Defector: Uranus and Neptune in the final episodes.
- Family Unfriendly Death: The cats in the manga, Sailor Venus in the anime. They get better.
- Who are we kidding? All the deaths are rather unpleasant. Mercury falls into a volcano, for Pete's sake.
- Famous Last Words: If you're a sailor senshi, expect to get some.
- Fan Fic: loads of it, of course.
- Fan Nickname: 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.
- Festival Episode
- Figure It Out Yourself
- Filler
- Five Man Band: The Sailor Team, as explained above.
- 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 old boyfriend/sempai. And all guys look like her old boyfriend/sempai.
- Ami's extreme study habits become a running gag starting in season two.
- Foreshadowing: In both the manga and anime, Chibi-Usa wants to make a copy of 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.
- Four Is Death
- Frills Of Justice: Contributes to the image. Eternal Sailor Moon takes this trope to ridiculous levels. At least Super Sailor Moon looked nice...
- Full Moon Silhouette
- Funny Aneurysm Moment: In one of the filler episodes in the Nephrite arc, Usagi mutters something about chocolate parfaits asleep at class. seven episodes later Well, let's just say it's a key element 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 killing off the title character, who is based on the codename taken by Sailor Venus. Years later, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon comes along and actually kills off Sailor Venus, if only semi-permenantly.
- Gender Bender: Starlights, anime only
- Genius Ditz: Usagi, Minako
- Ghibli Hills
- Girlish Pigtails: Usagi, Chibi-Usa, Chibi-Chibi, Queen Serenity, Sailor Cosmos, etc. It's a theme in and of itself.
- Glam Of Shazam: 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 Creamy Mami and Minky Momo. 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, Codename Sailor V.
- Gotterdammerung
- Grand Finale
- Gratuitous English: And Greek, Latin, French, and Portuguese. Most of the By The Power Of Greyskull and Calling Your Attacks.
- Green Lantern Corps: It turns out there are Senshi all over the galaxy! Heck, there's even a Sailor Galaxia!
- Hair Colors: Ami has 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).
- The hair colors aren't just metaphors either. Chibi-Usa's hair color is lampshaded several times.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Many of them.
- Hero Secret Service
- Hide Your Lesbians: Haruka and Michiru, who were actually quite groundbreaking for their time in playing with this idea.
- Ho Yay / Foe Yay: Tons of pairings fit this. Some canonical. Others not so. Zoicite/Kunzite is the obvious one but Jadeite/Nephrite and Mamoru/Motoki (Andrew) also get some doujinshi, fanart and fanfics. Occasionally there is also Kunzite/Endymion as well.
- Hostage For Mc Guffin
- Huge Schoolgirl: Makoto, though she did use it to her advantage in her first episode when she beat up the three punks who bullied Usagi.
- Human Aliens
- Human Resources: 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.
- Hypnotize The Princess (quite a few times)
- Hypocritical Humor: Many Sailor Says segments, when you consider that Serena's the one doing them.
- I Have The High Ground (mostly Tuxedo Kamen, Uranus and Neptune)
- I Just Want To Be Normal (Usagi)
- Idiosyncratic Wipes: The DiC-produced episodes added CGI scene wipes. Cloverway was too cheap to be bothered.
- Ignored Epiphany: In the manga, Beryl briefly muses about how she has sold her soul to Metaria, but thinks there's no going back.
- Ill Girl: Hotaru
- Image Song
- In A Single Bound: Tuxedo Kamen is fond of this.
- In The End You Are On Your Own
- In The Name Of The Moon: The Trope Namer
- Ineffectual Loner: Tuxie, sort of.
- Invisible Parents: Ami's mother, Minako's Parents and Rei's Father are never shown in the anime. They all appear in the manga at least once, though Minako's are restricted to the Sailor V manga.
- Invisible To Normals: 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.
- Is That Cute Kid Yours: Chibi-Usa, who is Usagi's kid, and Chibi-Chibi, who isn't.
- It Has Only Just Begun: Episode The Purity Chalice.
- James Bondage: Poor, poor Tuxedo Kamen. Does not help, that female BigBads except Galaxia seem to be fixated on turning him into their lapdog.
- Moreso in the Anime. In the Manga he could downright pass for Batman in levels of badass sometimes. Please note the "sometimes."
- Joshikousei
- Kansai Regional Accent: Naru
- Karmic Death: 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)
- Kid From The Future: Chibi-Usa
- Kissing Under The Influence: Bad, bad Mamoru!
- Knight Templar: The Outer Senshi, especially Uranus.
- Kotono Mitsuishi: Usagi
- Large Ham: The characters particularly shine when they make their In The Name Of The Moon speeches.
- Late For School: Usagi. Always.
- Leotard Of Power
- Les Yay: The obvious example being Haruka and Michiru, but occasionally seen by fans amongst the Inner Senshi, too. Makoto/Ami seems to be a popular pairing.
- Local Hangout: Game Center Crown, Fruits Parlor Crown
- Luminescent Blush: Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen, upon finding out that they'll have a kid in the future.
- The Last Temptation
- The Libby: 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.
- The Little Shop That Wasnt There Yesterday
- Macekre: Lots of changes were made to the DiC and Cloverway dubs of Sailor Moon to 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.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad member Zoisite 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 "more than just friends." Famously, this change 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. See above.
- Mad Scientist: Soichiro Tomoe, in the "Death Busters" arc
- Mad Scientists Beautiful Daughter: Hotaru Tomoe, in the "Death Busters" arc; slightly subverted as she's only 12 or so.
- Magical Girl: Well, duh.
- Magic Warrior
- Malaproper: Minako
- Making A Splash: Ami
- Mama Bear: Mercury is so pissed when a monster goes after babies that she gains a new power.
- The Man Behind The Man
- Martyr Without A Cause: Haruka and Michiru, who outdo even Usagi in their self sacrificing zeal.
- Mask Power: Tuxedo Kamen, at least before his extreme case of Bad Ass Decay.
- Meaningful Name: Many, many characters have meaningful names. Here are just the inner senshi for starters:
- The Messiah: Usagi
- Messianic Archetype: Usagi
- Mid Season Upgrade: 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 Super Mode, powering up her Moon Spiral Heart Attack into the Rainbow Moon Heart Ache in S.
- Mind Control Eyes: 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.
- Mind Rape: Dead Moon Circus did this to their victims in Super S. It's also how Chibi-Usa became Black Lady in R.
- Mini Dress Of Power
- Minion With An F In Evil: Poor Doorknobder. Despite her fearsome appearance, all she was really good for was locking things up. Other than that, she was a coward with little to no combat skill.
- Mirror Morality Machine: Beryl's brainwashing pod for Endymon which failed to make him completely evil. And Wiseman's "dark energy bath thingy" used on Chibi-Usa to make her into Dark Lady, which again, was not absolute. Finally, existence-support bracers that Galaxia's servant wear, which effect, surprise, surprise, also was successfully resisted by Uranus and Neptune - not that it helped them any. Although these might be straight Mind Control devices.
- Missing Episode: Quite a few in the English and Korean dubs.
- Monogender Monsters: The vast majority are female in the first four seasons. This is strangely averted to some extent in the fifth season. The Shadow Galactica are searching for true star seeds, which allow women to transform into sailor senshi, but can also be carried and used by men to some extent (eg, Mamoru). If an ordinary star seed is removed from a person, that person will turn into a monster. The Shadow Galactica removes the star seeds of both men and women in their search.
- Also played with in the fourth arc. All the Quirky Miniboss Squad Members summon Female monsters except the Gay Fish-Eye and the Biker Chick Jun Jun, who summon male ones.
- Monster Of The Aesop: 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. Who throws giant, caustic globs of sweat as his attack. Ew.
- Of special mention is Professor Tomoe, who engineered his Aesop-monsters on purpose after awhile.
- Monster Of The Week: 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.)
- Moral Dissonance: Usagi loves everyone equally. Especially Tuxedo Kamen.
- Well, she never said that she loved everyone equally and, really, this would have been too much to expect even from The Messiah. Neither she is obsessed with him to the point of ignoring her duty, at least in the anime.
- The Musical: The series got a set of stage musicals, known to fans as the Sera Myu, that ran longer than 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 themselves. 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 battling aliens, while this time fending off immortal pirates.
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling
- Mysterious Protector: Tuxedo Kamen, Moonlight Knight in the Makaiju arc of SMR.
- Myth Arc
- Nerd Glasses: Umino/"Melvin", Princess D
- Nerds Are Sexy: Long-legged, blue-haired Ami, big-time.
- Never Say Die: the dub, which instead said "captured by the Negaverse".
- Never The Selves Shall Meet: 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, which would have caused a temporal paradox and unmade time itself.
- New Transfer Student: Makoto, the guy Ami crushes on, and the Starlights.
- Nightmare Fuel: You'd be surprised how much this show has; cases in point, Death Phantom and Zirconia.
- The Nineties
- No Export For You: Hi there, Sailor Stars.
- Jetix UK's inablity to air the third and fourth season of Sailor Moon should have probably have been a warning sign in regards to Naruto...
- Non Serial Movie
- The Nose Bleed: A rare female example with Minako.
- Token Loli: Chibi-Usa. To a lesser extent, Hotaru.
- Narm: STAR GENTLE UTERUS!
- Not A Date: Rei with a one-shot female character, Maya Touno.
- Not A Morning Person: Usagi
- Nurse With Good Intentions: Minako only makes everything worse.
- Odango
- Official Couple: Haruka & Michiru, Usagi & Mamoru.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Almost all of the Big Bads. Probably due to the fact that they are either the manifestations of the same being - the final Big Bad, Chaos - or are under its influence.
- Omniscient Morality License: Pluto
- The One Guy: Mamoru/ Tuxedo Kamen
- The One True Sequence
- Only Six Faces
- Oracular Urchin
- Ordinary High School Student: The Sol Senshi. (Save the Few who aren't in Highschool/Jr. High: Pluto (college) and Chibi-Usa (elementary school)
- Out Gambitted: Sailor Moon, after trying to pull a Fake Defector at the end of the first arc.
- Also the reason for Dead Lesbian Syndrome 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.
- Out Of Clothes Experience: 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...
- Overtook The Manga: The Maikuju arc is a product of this.
- Paper Thin Disguise: 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 Idiot Ball.
- 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 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 (but with the exact same giant ponytails...)
- Subverted in the R movie by Fiore.
- Parental Abandonment: Ami's father divorced and ran out on her mother years ago. Rei's dad is a high-ranking politician who dropped her off at the shrine after her mother died and only sees her for a monthly lunch date. Makoto's parents died some time in the past and she's lived on her own without legal guardians for a while. Uranus and Neptune already live together by themselves for unexplained reasons, 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; afterwards she lives with the Outers to match up with the manga.
- Petal Power: Zoicite, later Jupiter.
- Pimped Out Dress: the Moon Princess dress, and the dresses in the "Wedding Day Blues"/"Dream of a White Dress" episode
- Pinky Swear
- Playing With Fire: Rei/Sailor Mars
- Plot Hole: 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.
- Plot Relevant Age Up: Hotaru, and this was after she had an age down.
- Power Gives You Wings: 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. She laters grows wings on her own during her I Know Youre In There Somewhere Fight with Galaxia.
- The Power Of Friendship
- The Power Of Love: 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.
- Pretty In Mink: One of the outfits Minako tries on at the beginning of one of the movies.
- Prime Directive: 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 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 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.
- Some fanfic authors, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, add: 4. Do not flirt with King Endymion.
- Princesses Prefer Pink: Chibi Moon's outfit.
- Prophetic Names: "Tsukino Usagi" is a Japanese homophone for "rabbit of the moon" (the Japanese equivalent of the Man in the Moon).
- A Protagonist Shall Lead Them: Eternal Sailor Moon/Neo-Queen Serenity, in 1000 years for the rise of Crystal Tokyo.
- The Psycho Rangers: the Ayakashi Sisters, four of the Witches 5, and the Amazones Quartet.
- Puppy Dog Eyes: Usagi again
- Put On A Bus: 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, a plane which was attacked mid-flight before ever reaching its destination. Lucky for him Death Is Cheap. Chibi-Usa gets caught in a paradox because of this and ceases 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. She comes back at the end of the manga, but she's almost completely forgotten by the end of the anime.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad
- Really Gets Around: Every man on the planet seems to remind Makoto of her ex-boyfriend/sempai.
- Really Seven Hundred Years Old: 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 beyond 25.
- Redemption Equals Death: Anime only — Nephrite, Saphir, Demando, the Amazon Trio, half of Sailor Tin Nyanko.
- Redemption Earns Life ( The Amazon Quartet in both versions; Al and En, Professor Tomoe, Queen Nehellenia and Sailor Galaxia in the anime only.)
- Red String Of Fate: in one episode of SMR Makaiju arc; also mentioned in episode 69.
- Reed Richards Is Useless: 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
- Reincarnation Romance: Usagi and Mamoru.
- Reliable Traitor: Kunzite
- Requisite Royal Regalia: Moon's first attack is throwing her tiara.
- Reset Button: Used as a plot element at the end of some season-long arcs
- Roofhopping
- Sailor Earth: Fan Fic is crawling with these. Indirect Trope Namer. Canonically, there is no Sailor Earth as Mamoru has the Sailor Crystal representing Earth, and Word Of God states only women can be senshi.
- Ironically, Naoko Takeuchi actually jossed the possibility of extrasolar senshi out there during the time the manga 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. (The anime, on the other hand, implies that there are others she hasn't killed or converted yet.)
- Satellite Character
- Scary Shiny Glasses: Professor Tomoe
- Science Marches On: Sailor Pluto's transformation call sounds pretty silly these days.
- Schoolgirl Lesbians: Haruka, Michiru
- Schrodingers Cat
- Sculpted Physique: The monsters' aesthetics
- Sealed Evil In A Can: multiple examples
- Sealed With A Kiss
- Sentai
- Shes A Man In Japan: Zoicite, Fish Eye
- Shojo
- Shoo Out The Clowns: both straight and inverted.
- Shoot Your Mate
- Short Run In Peru: the last 17 R episodes aired in Canada long before they aired in the USA
- Shout Out: Quite a few, including numerous references to Kingyo Chuihou
- In episode 104, a handsome kid dances like Shin-chan in front of Chibiusa, Mr. Elephant included! Poor girl!
- Shy Blue Haired Girl: Ami/Mercury.
- Sick Episode: Let's just say that Nurse Venus' bedside manner leaves a lot to be desired, shall we?
- Sixth Ranger: Initially, Venus though she's less distant than the usual examples (not so in live-action). Then the Outers, later the Starlights
- Sliding Scale Of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Obviously on the idealistic end of the scale, very much so in the anime version. There it even actually comes up during mid-combat dialogues between Sailor Moon and at least two of the Big Bads, but, notably, said Big Bads throw their speeches about how the world is rotten and hopeless, when they are Brainwashed And Crazy/Possessed by an Eldritch Abomination.
- Smart People Play Chess: Ami.
- So Last Season: 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 Mid Season Powerup instead.
- Sorting Algorithm Of Evil: Every new Big Bad
- Spell My Name With An S: Numerous thanks to the Theme Naming. Just look around this page for examples.
- Spirit Bomb: "Sailor Teleport", "Sailor Planet Attack"
- Stab The Sky: With scepters, not swords, but still fits this trope
- Stealth Hi Bye: The Outers have a habit of doing this.
- Step Three Profit: Many of Jadeite's plans involved creating successful businesses out of nowhere. This theme was revisited occasionally throughout the series.
- Stock Footage: The transfomation, attack, and heroic introduction sequences.
- Story Arc
- Stupid Sexy Flanders: vis-a-vis Haruka
- Superhero
- Surprise Santa Encounter: in the S movie
- Talking Is A Free Action
- Tall Dark And Bishoujo: Setsuna and Rei
- Team Spirit
- Tear Jerker: Actually, some of the deaths of the Sailor Senshi although they got better
- Technicolor Death: In the third movie (the SuperS one), the main villain dies in this manner, where it shows her already blob-like face melting and swirling (she's merged with a "black hole" at this point so she looks like a glowing ball with a face on it) and then the whole thing explodes.
- Temporary Love Interest: One-shot characters. Many.
- Theme Music Power Up
- Theme Naming: 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 (along with Western folklore linking oak trees to lightning).
- 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 Odd Name Out, "Tomoe" being a comma-shaped motif popular in traditional emblems. Of course, The Reveal would lose some of its impact if the 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.
- Tentacle Rope: Just more often with vines.
- Theme Tune Cameo
- Theme Tune Roll Call: in the dub
- Third Person Person: Palla-Palla in the anime.
- This Is A Drill: Black Lady (Chibi-Usa's superpowered evil form) wields an umbrella which she turns into an arm-mounted drill.
- This Is Unforgivable: occasionly said in the original anime by Sailor Moon herself.
- Tokyo Is The Center Of The Universe: 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, they inevitably encounter a rare out-of-town enemy operation.
- 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 were either after Usagi or the power of the Ginzuishou.
- Minako also trounced the villains elsewhere during her days as Sailor V (such as Egypt and Greece in the manga and England in the anime).
- Transfer Student Uniforms: Makoto
- Transformation Is A Free Action: Every damn time the girls change into their costumes! (Mocked mercilessly by The Abridged Series.)
- Transformation Sequence: 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.
- Translation Correction: 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.
- Troperiffic: Just look how long this page is!
- Two Timer Date: Minako in SuperS
- Unfortunate Implications: Both Zoisite and Fisheye had feelings for Mercury in the manga. Both were made gay in the anime (and made women in many countries.)
- Unusual Euphemism: 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." This lead to fans sometimes playfully referring to breasts as 'talent.'
- Verbal Tic: Many monsters-of-the-week have a verbal tic based on their name.
- Victim Of The Week: The Rainbow Crystal carriers. And Naru.
- Victorias Secret Compartment
- Villain Exit Stage Left
- Villain Song: 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 the Seramyus has either a solo or at the very least a group song as well.
- Visible Sigh
- Villain Teleportation
- We Are Team Cannon Fodder
- Weasel Mascot: The Moon cats
- Weirdness Magnet: Naru Osaka, the Official Energy Source of the Negaverse
- What Beautiful Eyes: Prince Demand keeps making remarks about how beautiful Sailor Moon's eyes are.
- What Do You Mean Its For Kids: Yes, the anime is intended for children in Japan, as it was in America. Just somewhat older children.
- What Do You Mean Its Not For Kids: The manga, on the other hand, isn't.
- What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: In the Black Moon arc, Rubeus uses crystalline crosses to hold the captured senshi. The Death Busters arc is focused on finding the holy grail and the messiah.
- What Kind Of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway
- Whats A Secret Four: StarS is made of this trope.
- What The Hell Hero: Haruka and Michiru think Usagi was too soft on Hotaru toward the end of the third season to effectively rule them in the future. And practically force her to proves her qualifications by kicking their asses. Which she does easily.
- In the manga, it was Sailor Moon's turn to chew them out for one count of attempted murder (in connection to their being a Leeroy Jenkins and trying to kill Hotaru).
- White Haired Pretty Boy: Kunzite, Demand, Helios, and in the manga, occasionally Artemis.
- White Haired Pretty Girl: Queen Serenity, Viluy, and Sailor Star Healer. And in the manga, Princess Serenity.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Haruka; The Starlights in the manga
- Winged Humanoid
- Winter Royal Lady: The Big Bad in the Sailor MoonS movie.
- Woobie Destroyer Of Worlds: Hotaru/Sailor Saturn in the Death Busters arc, by way of Demonic Possession and destiny.
- Word Of God: Only women can be Sailor Senshi.
- There cannot be a Sailor Earth because Tuxedo Kamen has Earth's sailor crystal.
- The World Is Always Doomed
- Xanatos Gambit: Galaxia awakening Nehellenia
- You Fail Animal Care Forever: Sugar candies are not appropriate treats for cats, ever. Even if Luna is a magical talking cat who could possibly handle sugar better than nonmagical Earth cats, it's still a fail because the guy who gave Luna sugar candy thought she was an ordinary cat.
- Luna's shown throughout versions to have a predilection towards sugary things, even naming her attack "Sucre Candy" in the live-action series. Yeah, I know, it's weird.
- Yaoi Guys: Zoicite and Kunzite, anime only
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: 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 characters have odd hair colors, with 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 clearly not normal, leading to the fanon speculation that everyone else's hair color is for the viewer only and they actually have rather normal hair colors. Takeuchi actually drew a series of images in which the senshi were all given normal hair colors. You realize quickly how difficult it is to identify some senshi without their signature hair...
- You Should Know This Already: 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.
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