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Haruka Tenoh/Amara — Sailor Uranus

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Voiced by: Megumi Ogata (first anime) (Japanese); Junko Minagawa (Crystal onwards) (Japanese), Sara Lafleur (Cloverway), Erica Mendez (Viz) (English); Belinda Martínez (first anime), Paulina Soto (Crystal onwards) (Latin American Spanish), Rosana Beltrame/Adriana Pissardini (Brazilian Portuguese), Olga Lima (European Portuguese), Maddalena Vadacca (Italian, first anime), Tatiana Dessi (Italian, Crystal onwards)
Portrayed in the musicals by: Sanae Kimura, Nao Takagi, Mari Hatano (Asako Uchida), Akiko Nakayama, Shū Shiotuki

"Guided by a new era, Sailor Uranus acts with elegance!"

The most pragmatic of the guardians, even willing to sacrifice lives for the greater good. Although she puts up a tough facade, she's more damaged by this outlook than she's willing to admit. When not fighting evil, she enjoys playing sports, playing the piano, driving her Cool Car, and generally wowing everyone else in the cast.

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Adaptational Badass: In the manga she, along with all the other Solar System Guardians, succumbs to Sailor Galaxia's mind control and relentlessly attacks Sailor Moon until she's disposed of. In the 90s anime, she and Sailor Neptune resist the mind control – in fact, they deliberately feign defecting in order to gain the Galactica bracelets only to wait for the first opening and try to kill Galaxia with her own weapons. It doesn't work, but even Galaxia herself is impressed by the strength of their willpower.
Adaptation Dye-Job: Haruka/Sailor Uranus' hair in the manga is most often white-blond, but dark, sandy blonde in The '90s anime.
Adaptational Nice Guy: Sailors Uranus and Neptune in Sailor Moon Crystal are nowhere near as antagonistic towards in the Inner Guardians like they were in the original anime despite remaining prideful overall. In the end of the Death Busters story arc, they outright attempt to kill Sailor Moon because they couldn't stand her idealism, forcing Sailor Moon to outsmart them before they admitted defeat. In Crystal, no such thing happens, and they part ways from the Inners on peaceful terms.
Adoptive Peer Parent: Is "Haruka-Papa" to young Hotaru after she's been orphaned, co-parenting with respective "Mama"'s Michiru and Setsuna.
Aloof Ally: With Neptune towards the inner guardians in that they are too idealistic and refuse to use lethal force.
Amateur Sleuth: When not fighting, she and Michiru often investigate suspicious activity rather than getting caught up in it like so many other characters. For example, they enrolled in Mugen Academy to get to the bottom of the strange things happening there.
Ambiguous Gender Identity: In Crystal it's left unclear where Haruka's stands on their gender identity. Unlike the 90's anime, where in Haruka was a pure bifauxnen, in Crystal Haruka tends to mix and match outfits, going from wearing slacks and suits, to mini-skirts to skirts. Usagi asks Haruka in one episode whether they are a man or a woman and Haruka simply replies "does it matter?" Making things even murkier later on in the season Michiru states that "Uranus in both a man and a woman who is a guardian with both sex and strength", suggesting she may be bigender.
Ambiguously Absent Parent: The Tsukinos appear often enough, other parents of the girls are either dead or rarely appear but are still confirmed to exist, but Haruka's family is never referenced.
Ambiguously Christian: She and Michiru both qualify. They're searching for the Messiah, and Uranus even sports a cross at times. There is certainly a lot of Catholic imagery in the S season. Michiru telling the story of Adam and Eve and referring to them as the first man and woman drives the point home.
Artistic License – Cars: Her 2000GT is shown to be a four-seater. The real Toyota 2000GT (including the Bond model that she drove) only have two seats.
Badass Biker: Almost runs over Makoto too!
Badass Driver: Is a racecar driver, one considered to be gifted enough for Japan to be proud of her.
Battle Couple: With Neptune. They usually arrive together and attack enemies in tandem.
Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The brawn to Michiru's beauty and Setsuna's brains.
Bifauxnen: She's depicted as the most tomboyish and androgynous-looking of the Sailor Guardian in all versions, but much more so in the 90s anime where she almost always dresses in a masculine way and regularly invokes Even the Girls Want Her. In the manga she starts out as looking very masculine, but leans towards wearing more feminine outfits after her identity as a Sailor Guardian is fully revealed.
Bifauxnen and Lad-ette: Is the Bifauxnen to Seiya's Lad-ette.
The Big Damn Kiss: Not a romantic one, but Season 3 of Crystal gives us one between Haruka and Usagi.
The Big Girl: For the Outer Guardians, and in general, the Sailor Team. She is the second tallest of all guardians (towering over Makoto), is a competitive racer, is athletic enough to dominate Jupiter in a brawl, and like Jupiter, likes physical fighting just as much as using her guardian powers. In contrast to Ami, she prefers to power through enemies rather than step back and make a plan.
Black-and-White Morality: The Materials Collection notes state that she "sees everything in black and white terms".
Blood Knight: Is always more than happy to jump into battle, although her Action-first bravado is eventually put at odds with Sailor Mercury.
Bloodless Carnage: In the episodes where the Talismans show up. Despite both Uranus and Neptune getting injured (the former shot by apparently invisible darts and the latter ripping herself free from some sort of thorny vines), neither bleeds.
Blow You Away: Played with. Her namesake is the planet and god of the skies, but her most well-known ability, World Shaking, is often associated with the earth. Interestingly, the attack is described as "the heavens crashing down on the earth." Her other abilities usually involve unleashing blasts of energy or cosmic winds, so while she doesn't have explicitly wind-based powers, her abilities are still technically associated with the skies and the cosmos.
Bokukko: She uses the "boku" male pronoun. Between that and the fact she also wears a boys' school uniform and has masculine interests such as car racing, she's easily mistaken for male when not transformed.
Boyish Short Hair: She's a tomboy and Butch Lesbian with short hair, in contrast to Lipstick Lesbian Michiru's long hair.
Brains Versus Brawn: The brawn to Ami's brains. While Ami is a genius with an IQ of 300 and the best test scores in school and prefers to carefully analyze her enemies before attacking, Haruka is a physically strong athlete who fights with a sword and charges into battle like there's no tomorrow. The contrast between these two is most explored in the Nehellenia arc of the last season.
Break the Badass: She and Michiru pretend to defect to Galaxia to gain her trust, but doing so they kill Pluto and Saturn by removing their Star Seeds. Then, when it turns out that Galaxia doesn't have one to remove, they break down and realize it was all for nothing.
Broken Ace: Along with Michiru, she's rich, beautiful enough to have Usagi fall for her, powerful enough to trash Jupiter in a fight in civilian or guardian form, and has a wide range of talents. In the manga, Usagi, Ami, Rei, and Makoto frustrate Minako (the original ace) by gushing about how awesome Haruka and Michiru are. However, before becoming a Sailor Guardian, she felt aimless in life. She wishes to run away from her fate, and initially didn't want to be a guardian. She was initially as unwilling to hurt a human being as an inner guardian, but gradually lost her sense of idealism. While Haruka will kill or leave innocent people to fate if she deems it necessary, she's deeply troubled by the actions she feels she has to take and fears that what they're doing is ultimately for nothing.
Butch Lesbian: She's tall, athletic, a race car driver, and wears her hair short. Played up more in the anime, where she rarely wears women's clothes.
But Not Too Gay: The anime is, even in the Japanese version, very coy about Haruka and Michiru. While the main, straight couple of the series still only kisses infrequently, Haruka and Michiru never kiss. The manga does not have this problem. Though Haruka and Michiru still never kiss, Haruka does kiss Usagi.
Butt-Monkey: To Michiru whenever she's in troll mode. Especially in the last season, where Michiru loves saying Haruka doesn't like Seiya because she doesn't like popular men. In this way, Michiru's saying Haruka is actually jealous of Seiya because he has better luck with women, leaving Haruka in the position of either admitting she's jealous or having to say she does like Seiya.
By the Power of Grayskull!: "Uranus Planet Power, Make up!", "Uranus Crystal Power, Make up!"
Car Fu: She and Michiru make their badassery known on a motorcycle in their debut episode (as themselves, at least).
Celebrity Masquerade: A car-racing champion who gets a lot of attention from the media due to her talent and young age. She transforms into the tough Sailor Uranus and defends the solar system from evil and chaos.
Chained Heat: An attack by a Daimon handcuffs Sailor Moon and Sailor Uranus together for an episode. This serves as a plot device since they'd been at odds since they ran into each other and have avoided contact. Being stuck together helps each to understand how the other thinks.
Character Exaggeration: In the manga, Haruka is still butch but has her feminine moments and even occasionally wears girly clothes. In the 90s anime, she is much more masculine and is even a Bokukko (in the manga she uses the girly pronoun "atashi").
Chastity Couple: Haruka and Michiru are girlfriends, but there's nothing too explicit about their relationship. In fact, the only onscreen kiss Haruka has is with Usagi, not Michiru.
Clingy Jealous Girl: Haruka can become easily and extremely jealous whenever someone takes an interest in Michiru.
Close-Range Combatant: It helps that she has a sword. She has even defeated Makoto in combat.
The Comically Serious: Sometimes. Haruka can easily flirt with others, but any flirting back tends to fly right over her head or fluster her.
Commander Contrarian: In the anime, though it's more to provide a counter-balance to Usagi's blind optimism. And while Usagi ultimately proves right in the long run, Haruka's reaction to some of her more reckless actions are presented as extremely logical instead of being wrong for the sake of being wrong.
Conflict Ball: Sailors Neptune and Uranus clutch it tightly more often than not, especially in their introductory arc.
- In the Infinity arc of the manga/Crystal they spend nearly half the arc stubbornly refusing to tell Sailor Moon and her team anything about who they are or what's going on. Their reasoning is eventually explained as "we feel that this is our responsibility to handle as Outer Guardians and we don't want to risk you being hurt by getting involved" - never mind that they had previously attacked Sailor Moon rather than explain this, and that the lack of communication placed her and her team in greater danger by inspiring them to investigate on their own without knowing what they're up against.
- The S arc of the '90s anime depicts them as actively antagonistic to Sailor Moon and the Inner Guardians, despite the fact that by this point Usagi and her team have saved the world no less than three times, while those two were only investigating their first and sole threat.
Control Freak: Whenever Haruka and Michiru enter the season's plot, they act as if they know better than the other Guardians (even if they don't know very much about the enemy), make decisions without considering anyone else's input, as well as undermine Usagi and take away her choice in the situation. This is best exemplified in the S season when Haruka steals Usagi's transformation brooch so she can't interfere when they confront Eudial and in the Stars season when they order the Sailor Starlights (mainly Seiya) to stay away from Usagi and when they tell Usagi to stay away from them in return. With the latter, Usagi calls them out on deciding the situation themselves and sticking their noses in their business like that.
Cool Big Sis: To the Inners, but mostly to Usagi.
Cool Car: One of Haruka's main characteristic traits. This is mainly due to Takeuchi's own love of certain cars and wanting to draw them.
- One of Naoko Takeuchi's artwork of Haruka shows her posing beside a white Ferrari Testarossa F512M.
- In chapter 14 of the manga, when showing how the Outer Guardians' life have been after the Death Busters arc, one panel shows her racing an open-wheeler race car in South Africa. Judging by what type of the car and where, it's presumed that she's racing a Formula One car in Kyalami. Eternal outright confirms this, stating that they now work as a Formula One test driver.
- In the anime, she primarily drives a roofless yellow Toyota 2000GT, as the cool car in You Only Live Twice. She ups the ante in episode 168 of the anime, when she's shown driving another cool car, a navy blue Ferrari Testarossa 512 TR.
- In her debut episode, she's talks about her passion to become a racing driver before giving it up for another task (i.e. becoming a Sailor Guardian). There's an imagine spot of this featuring Group A racers from The '90s, which in this case almost entirely consists of Nissan Skyline Group A racers.
- Episode 179 shows Haruka and Michiru sitting on the hood of a car near a lighthouse. It is not clear as in what model the car is, but it's clear that it's not the 2000GT^note or the Testarossa^note. Judging by the shape and design of the car, it's presumed a 1960s or early 1970s European-made super car.
Cool Sword: Her Space Sword, has jewels on the white sheath and a cool curved red blade that glows when in use (The color varies) in the 90s anime. In the manga and crystal, the blade is straight and while the manga depictions vary the color of the hilt and blade (even appearing transparent in some artwork), along with the length, crystal solidifies it with silvery decorations on the hilt and hand guard with a large blue orb connecting it to a blade the length of Haruka's arm.
Custom Uniform: She and Michiru have short gloves instead of elbow-length ones.
Deadpan Snarker: Prone to sarcastic remarks like Michiru.
The Dividual: With Neptune; they were created as a pair, never get solos in the Sera Myu, instead getting duets, and the scenes they have solo can be counted on one hand. The 90's anime forcibly separates them for a single episode, instead pairing Uranus with Mercury leading her to comment how weird it is to not have Neptune around, noting she hadn't noticed until now just how hard Neptune worked to keep up with her speed.
Does Not Like Men: A Running Gag for Haruka in season 5 is that she's always gets teased that she doesn't like popular men (especially by Michiru), much to her dismay and annoyance.
Does Not Like Spam: Natto soybeans are her least favorite food.
Dramatically Missing the Point: When Haruka and Michiru's visions of the Silence come, you can't blame them for being terrified, but they believe that the Silence is something that must never be allowed to happen, ever, and that they have to kill Hotaru to stop it. They don't realize that Sailor Saturn and her powers exist for a reason: the old must be destroyed so that the new can be created, and when things go too far, sometimes it's better to just Restart the World.
Dub Personality Change: Like several other characters, the original English dub flanderized her and Michiru, making them even meaner and harsher than the original anime.
Early-Installment Weirdness: In the manga Uranus' first appears as a Guardian in a Tuxedo Mask outfit. Every subsequent appearance she was a Sailor like the others and it is never brought up again. Oddly, this was kept in Crystal.
Even the Girls Want Her:
- Mostly played for laughs; several characters still express admiration for her even after learning she isn't a boy.
- This extends to real life as well. In a poll conducted among Japanese lesbians about which anime character they'd want as a girlfriend, Haruka was in the Top 5 responses.

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Fake Defector: In the final episodes.
Foil: To Ami, which is explored in the Nehellenia arc of the Stars season. While Haruka is the brawn of the Outer Soldiers, and tries to plow through hordes of enemies with brute force, Ami is the brains of the inner soldiers, and insists on studying an enemy before attacking. Haruka is tomboyish, gruff, cynical enough to think that a horrible sacrifice is necessary to preserve peace, appears very confident, and genuinely does not care whether others accept her or not, while Ami is ladylike, gentle, idealistic, insecure, and wants to be liked by others.
Friendly Rivalry: With the anime one-shot character Elza Gray. As track runners, they're each other's biggest competition. Despite this, they remain friendly to each other, and Elza was even the one who introduced Haruka to her friend Michiru.
Gender-Blender Name: Like Makoto, she has a unisex name to emphasize how she has masculine and feminine traits. When she's first introduced, it also adds to the confusion over whether she's male or female.
Genius Bruiser: More known for her strength and fighting skills than her intelligence, but she's quite mature, a gifted musician, and must be a great student to get into the super exclusive Mugen Gakuen.
Good Is Not Nice: In the 90s anime, Haruka and Michiru are very cynical, trying to kill Hotaru in an attempt to stop Saturn from ending the world. Even after Usagi manages to both save Hotaru and the universe, they still are aloof. In the Stars arc, both act as Double Reverse Quadruple Agents for Galaxia, even killing Saturn and Pluto to prove their loyalty. However, they are also Wrong Genre Savvy and end up dying themselves. They have good intentions, but also believe that the ends justify the means and thus do not hesitate to resort to violence or trickery. They are are much nicer in the manga.
Handsome Lech: No, really! In the anime, she flirts with a lot of girls, including Usagi and a hotel maid who appears to reciprocate (or at least be flustered). In the latter case, Michiru walked in the room when Haruka was putting the moves on said maid. She seems to have long ago accepted this part of her partner and lets it slide... mostly.
Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: In the old English dub, they tried to remove Haruka's sexuality by having her, and everyone around her, never shut up about how she's cousins with Michiru/Michelle. This even extended to Sailor Uranus and Neptune, despite the fact none of the characters even knew about their civilian identities. The only problem is that Haruka and Michiru have a plethora of romantic scenes together, all of which were left intact by the dub. So, instead of just regular lesbians, the dub turned them into incestuous lesbians instead.
Heroes Prefer Swords: Has a sword as her weapon across all continuities.
Heroic BSoD: Goes into one in the middle of S when she watches Neptune almost die to try and save her. She then tells not to go off without her and removes her Pure Heart Talisman (though that was more or less part of her mission). They get better thanks to Usagi.
Heroic Suicide: Sort of. She loses consciousness rather than die, although she intended for the latter to happen. After Eudial removes Neptune's Talisman, Uranus realizes she holds what she believes to be the final talisman inside her. To save the world, she decides to shoot herself in the heart using Eudial's gun. Usagi tries desperately to prevent this from occurring, but her cries go unnoticed, as the other guardians (including Setsuna) arrive too late. Don't worry, she gets better.
Hero of Another Story: She and Michiru are usually living their own adventure while the protagonists are in Tokyo. In the anime they even leave after the third season specifically to do this.
High-School Sweethearts: With Michiru.
Huge Schoolgirl: She's in high school at the start and end of the series, and is even taller than Makoto. Not that Haruka (or anyone else) is bothered by it.
Hypocrite:
- During the early stages of her relationship with Michiru, Haruka snarked that she didn't think a privileged rich girl like her could possibly understand a concept as bleak as the apocalypse, even though Haruka herself is a privileged rich girl.
- Before going to confront Eudial with Michiru, Haruka tells Usagi that they won't let her slow them down with her "half-baked play war". She says this, even though she and Michiru didn't have a concrete plan for finding the Talismans all season and they hadn't formed a plan for when they confronted Eudial and when they did, she quickly gained the upper hand. Had Usagi heeded their threat and stayed away, Haruka and Michiru would've died and the Death Busters would've gotten a hold on two Talismans.
- In the Stars season, she expresses distaste at the way Seiya "indiscriminately approaches women", yet Haruka has been shown to flirt with a lot of girls, including Usagi and the Inner Soldiers (even stealing a kiss from Sailor Moon in the manga/Crystal without her consent, which is a form of sexual assault) and unlike Seiya, Haruka is in a relationship (a stable one with trust from both sides, but still).
I Did What I Had to Do: She and Michiru consistently fail to learn from their mistakes and are willing to sacrifice lives—both innocent civilians and their own fellow soldiers—on the basis that the end (destroying the enemy) automatically justifies the means. But their Control Freak tendencies and habit of acting as if their decisions are superior to the others' marks them out for the Stupid Sacrifice category. Also, see the end of SailorStars for a classic example of this trope dovetailing with Nice Job Breaking It, Hero.
Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Uranus and Neptune in the anime refused to work with Sailor Moon and the Inner Guardians because they believed they were too idealistic for their own good and couldn't make pragmatic decisions. After the battle with Pharaoh 90, they lecture Usagi for protecting Hotaru which almost led to the planet's destruction and say she's unfit to be queen. However, Uranus and Neptune were rookie soldiers without the experience of fighting various enemies Sailor Moon and her guardians had (judging by the information and flashbacks from the anime, they were active for roughly a year, with the Death Busters as their only threat to investigate). Naoko Takeuchi's Materials Collection notes even state that Haruka is "ignorant of the regular world" and "sees everything in black and white terms" so her claims that she and Michiru were making the best decisions don't hold much weight. Examples of their behavior include:
- If Uranus and Neptune were as pragmatic as they believed they were, they would've teamed up with the more seasoned girls who had among them a national genius girl with a handheld supercomputer that's suggested to be more advanced than modern day appliances (Ami), a psychic girl who could've figured out who held the Talismans by divining through the Sacred Fire (Rei), and a girl with a legendary crystal that has the capacity to heal/destroy an entire planet, purge evil from a person or place, and bring the dead back to life (Usagi). Granted, Uranus and Neptune might not have known about their previous missions to know they're capable, but since Sailor Moon and the Inners started picking up notoriety after they awakened (to the point of having little dolls made in their image and kindergarteners knowing about them in R) and Pluto let them know that Chibi-Usa was the Princess of the Future Silver Millennium, it's hard to believe that they wouldn't have heard of their exploits through the news or word of mouth, or that Pluto wouldn't have told Uranus and Neptune about them herself.
- After Eudial lets them know she has found a Talisman, Haruka and Michiru call Usagi to meet them, tell her they won't let her slow them down with her "half-baked play war" and steal her brooch... with the Silver Crystal inside. However, Haruka and Michiru don't realize their plan for finding the Talismans had been rather half-baked. In spite of the time they spent investigating them, they were just piggybacking off the enemy's efforts: they just sat around and waited for the Death Busters to strike, remove a victim's Pure Heart, then check to see if it was a Talisman. At no point did they try to find them themselves. Eudial had to call and tell them that she found a Talisman. And at no point did they think she could have been leading them into a trap. They just rushed to meet Eudial without coming up with a plan other than collecting a Talisman for their mission.
- Regarding Hotaru, they were hell-bent on killing her because she was the reincarnation of Sailor Saturn and they believed she would destroy the world when she awakened, yet they were unaware of her true purpose (to destroy the world only when things were at their lowest point so everything could be reborn anew) and would've killed an innocent girl and valuable comrade had they succeeded.
- Finally, if Uranus and Neptune had teamed up with the girls and shared what they knew about the Death Busters (admittedly, something Neptune had suggested to Uranus who refused her), the issue would've been resolved quicker with far less conflict, but instead they were aloof and condescending towards them and even hindered them on several occasions. Even Tuxedo Mask said that while the Outer Guardians are strong, Sailor Moon is stronger because she has teammates.
- In short, while Uranus and Neptune were smug and condescending towards Sailor Moon and the Inners for their beliefs, it was their aloof behavior, hasty decision making, and inability to cooperate and share meaningful communication that often led them to make things worse and cause unnecessary conflict.
Incest Subtext: The Cloverway dub creates an interesting Inversion with Haruka and Michiru. The romantic subtext is meant to be there... but they're not supposed to be cousins in the original. The company that decided to make them cousins did so for the exact reason of preventing there being any openly gay people in the show, without actually changing enough other stuff to even try and hide how they feel for each other, just hoping no one would think it's odd for two cousins to be THAT devoted to each other.
Ineffectual Loner: She and Michiru have a consistently condescending view of many of the other characters, despite being surprisingly useless when combating actual Dragons or Big Bads.
Informed Attribute:
- Is thought to be more pragmatic than the Inner Soldiers, yet her decisions say otherwise. See Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance above for more details.
- Uranus and Neptune are stated to dread the idea of sacrificing innocents for the sake of their mission, but this doubted due to the fact that they never bother to search for other options, acting as if killing is the only thing they can do about the situation that they don't know very much about, and react angrily to the suggestion that they look for another way, even though they should be jumping at any opportunity to learn alternative methods if they really wanted to avoid sacrificing innocents.
Intertwined Fingers: Haruka and Michiru do this quite a few times throughout the series. Most notably during the "I like your hands" scene, on the morning that they go to the Marine Cathedral expecting to have to kill an innocent person and again while they're dying/fading out of existence at the end of Stars.
Irony: At the conclusion of the battle against Pharaoh 90, Haruka and Michiru state that Usagi's way of handling it makes her unfit to be the Queen of the Future Silver Millennium, and yet it is heavily implied that Neo-Queen Serenity herself was the one to set things in motion when she told Chibi-Usa to train in the past and befriend an "important person" who would later turn out to be Hotaru, thereby leading to the events of the season to play out the way they did with no one being sacrificed as Hotaru's bond with Chibi-Usa was an important factor in her overpowering Mistress 9, awakening as Sailor Saturn, and destroying Pharaoh 90 with Super Sailor Moon once and for all.
I Surrender, Suckers: In the fifth Season, Sailors Uranus and Neptune pretended to do a Face–Heel Turn, submitting to Galaxia's will and even killing Saturn and Pluto, and then, when the going got good and they did enough damage, made an attempt on her life. Subverted in that Galaxia is seemingly immortal, and both Uranus and Neptune are instantly destroyed upon the revelation of her immortality.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While Haruka can be a pretty big jerk to those around her especially in S a lot of this is due to the stress of being an Anti-Hero and her belief that committing necessary evil is required to save the world. Wherever she is allowed to be herself she shows a much softer, even goofier, side especially around her lover Michiru or Usagi. In the original manga and Crystal, she and Michiru's aloofness and initial unwillingness to work with the Inner Guardians was based on the fear that the Inners weren't strong enough and would get themselves killed as well as feeling responsible for the Death Busters' invasion due to not awakening in time to intercept them.
Lady Looks Like a Dude: She is easily mistaken for a boy. When she first appeared, the others thought she was Michiru's boyfriend. Her androgynous appearance helped some dubs to claim that she was a boy in order to hide her and her girlfriend's sexualities.
The Leader: Of the Outer Guardians. Her leadership isn't outright stated like with Minako, but she usually takes charge once the Outers become a team. As a group, they're sometimes called "Haruka-tachi" or "Uranus-tachi" to show that she's the central figure of the group.
Lesbian Jock: She's a track star at school and Physical Education is her best class.
Lightning Bruiser: Due to being a former track star, Haruka is quite the speedster, and easily takes out Jupiter with a single blow in the gut.
Love at First Sight: She decided Michiru was "the one" for her upon Elsa Gray introducing the two to each other.
Love Makes You Evil: Subverted. She and Michiru make Galaxia think they'll defect to her as long as they can be together, but it's part of a plan to overthrow her. It doesn't work.
Luminescent Blush: In the Super S movie, after killing some Mooks, she questions whether their plans have good or bad intentions. Michiru points out that being a child forever is a terrible idea because "there are so many fun things to do as adults." Haruka awkwardly blushes.
Magic Knight: Despite being a Sailor, Uranus is physically strong and has a magical sword as add-on weapon, preferring to bash rather than magically attack enemies.
Magical Girl Warrior: Even has a sword.
Martyr Without a Cause: Like Neptune, Uranus strongly believes that victory is impossible without some horrible angsty sacrifice they believe only they have the moral strength to make.
Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Haruka is a short-haired, athletic, sword-wielding Butch Lesbian while her girlfriend Michiru is a refined, violin-playing Lipstick Lesbian.
Master Swordswoman: Has the Space Sword as her personal weapon, handles it very well.
Meaningful Name:
- Tenoh as in Tenōsei, the Japanese name for Uranus literally meaning "sky king star".
- Her given name in kanji means "distant".
Mirror Character: To Seiya Kou/Sailor Star Fighter. While neither of them get along, both of them are the leaders of their respective groups (The Outer Soldiers for Uranus and the Sailor Starlights for Fighter), dress as men (for Seiya, crossdressing in the manga and a physical disguise in the anime), are dedicated to their respective missions, refused to work with Sailor Moon and her guardians, and are huge flirts. Not surprising when one remembers Naoko Takeuchi based Seiya's personality off of Haruka's.
Morality Pet: Hinted to be this for Michiru in the first anime: Sailor Neptune's one battle before Haruka joined her shows that Neptune was far more willing to sacrifice innocents back in the day.
Mysterious Past: While in the first anime we see how she met Michiru, in the manga she was just there.
My Way or the Highway: Also crosses with Control Freak. She and Neptune believe that their methods are better and disregard those who don't think the same way as them.

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Necessarily Evil: How Haruka sees killing Hotaru. It's even stated that Haruka carries deep sadness about the idea of ending Hotaru's life but believes that it is the better alternative than Sailor Saturn's return.
The Needs of the Many: She and Michiru were frustrated with Sailor Moon not seeing that saving the world is more important than the life of one person, although Usagi did manage to find a way without sacrificing Hotaru.
Never My Fault: At the conclusion of S, Michiru and Haruka never acknowledge that it's their aloof behavior, hasty decision-making, refusal to think of another plan, and communication problems that contributed to the outcome of the battle with Pharaoh 90 just as much as Usagi's actions did, if not more so.
Not So Stoic: When she witnesses her girlfriend, Sailor Neptune, get her Pure Heart Talisman removed, while Uranus doesn't break down or cry, for the first time in the series she looks truly heart broken. She then removes her own Pure Heart, even though she knows that if it's separated from her for too long, she would die.
Not Your Problem: Haruka and Michiru constantly tell the Inners to back off and leave everything to them. The Inners, being who they are, never listen.
Odd Name Out: Like her respective planet, Sailor Uranus is the only one named after a Greek god (instead of his Roman equivalent Caelus), while the other Sailors are named after the Roman names of the gods.
The One Guy: In the foreign dubs that changed the gender of Haruka's civilian identify, "he" becomes the one guy among the Sailor Guardians.
One True Love: She and Michiru are in a long-lasting relationship and are rarely seen apart from each other.
Only Has Same-Sex Admirers: Both men and women tend to remark upon Haruka as being attractive, but it's really only the latter that show outright infatuation. Most guys are simply surprised Haruka isn't a handsome man.
Opposites Attract: With Michiru. She's a sporty tomboy, Michiru is a cultured and elegant lady.
Out of Focus: In SuperS, hers and Michiru's only appearance is in one of the specials, although they return to full-time characters in Stars.
Passionate Sports Girl: Was this in the past, while Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life. She stated in a flashback that track-and-field and motorbike racing were all she had to give her life meaning.
Pastel-Chalked Freeze Frame: Haruka and Michiru's scenes are done this way more often than not, when not in any form of battle, in order to emphasize how elegant they are.
Poor Communication Kills: Neptune and Uranus' stubborn refusal to open any kind of discussion with the other Guardians about what's going on during the Infinity arc approaches the absurd. Even after it becomes clear that Moon and her team are not going to stay out of it no matter what Neptune and Uranus say, the pair keep everything they know entirely to themselves, forcing the Inners to fumble around blindly in their own investigation covering ground that Neptune and Uranus have already covered and repeatedly coming into danger as their efforts draw the attention of the Death Busters.
Post-Game Retaliation: Double subverted. Haruka wins a motorcycle race and other bikers plan to attack her. One of her more honorable opponents warns them to stay away. But later on, bikers riding in a truck attempt to run Haurka and Usagi off the road; they then attack Haruka afterwards, but she easily mops the floor with them.
Pragmatic Hero: How she and Michiru see themselves. They really aren't. Sure, they're willing to make hard decisions and sacrifices that the Inners are against, but that's far as they go. If they were as pragmatic as they thought, they'd try to get more help, especially from the more experienced and successful Inners, or at least try something else to complete their mission when Plan A fails.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Michiru's Blue. While both had the same intentions in season 3, Haruka's attitude was more outgoing and harsh in comparison to Michiru's calmer, more introvert demeanor.
Refusal of the Call: Initially, she refused to accept her destiny as a soldier because her life would have been upended. It took Michiru getting injured protecting Haruka for her to eventually accept her fate.
Related in the Adaptation: In the Cloverway dub, she and Michiru were infamously stated to be cousins to Hide Your Lesbians. But the dub didn't edit out their flirting scenes, so not only did they look like lesbians, but also incestuous ones. The dubbers apparently thought they could make their affection look familial instead of romantic.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: She was right that Hotaru was a threat to Earth, but it wasn't for the fact she was Sailor Saturn, rather because she was the vessel for Mistress 9.
Sadistic Choice: How she and Michiru see their mission. While they are willing to make any sacrifice for their duty, they still feel torn up inside about letting innocent civilians die just so they can find the Talismans, especially when they can't even tell people why they have to be sacrificed. Ultimately, their worries were for nothing because nobody had to die.
Samus Is a Girl: In her introductory episodes.
She's a Man in Japan: The French dub depicts her as a man, except when transformed.
Ship Tease: Despite being in a loving relationship with Michiru, the manga and Crystal ship-teased her with Usagi when the two of them share a kiss on the lips in Sailor form. This helps Usagi figure out Uranus' identity because earlier, Usagi had dreamed of kissing Haruka.
Shoot Your Mate: During their deception of Sailor Galaxia, she and Michiru are forced to remove Pluto and Saturn's Star Seeds to keep up the charade.
Signature Scent: Downplayed in episode 98 of the anime. Early on, Usagi and Haruka are hiding together, and Usagi notices the scent of Haruka's cologne. Later, as Sailor Moon and Sailor Uranus, they're handcuffed together by the Monster of the Day, and when they once again hide, Moon notices the same scent on Uranus. This is Moon's first clue to Uranus' identity.
Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: She and Neptune look down on Sailor Moon and the Inner Guardians because they think they are too idealistic for their own good and can't make hard decisions. Even though they have beaten several serious threats long before they came into the picture.
Smug Smiler: She and Michiru do this from time to time.
Smug Super: Along with Michiru. In their civilian guises, they seem friendly enough but their arrogance comes out when they transform.
Something Only They Would Say: As Usagi is being given a ride by Haruka, Usagi recognizes the latter's speech about "people only surviving by trampling on others" as the same words Sailor Uranus spoke.
Sour Supporter: In the anime, the idea that The Power of Love and justice could triumph without a horrible sacrifice seems to offend her on some level.
Spotlight-Stealing Squad: After Haruka and Michiru are introduced, they take the focus away from Ami, Rei, Makoto and Minako, who are little more than Usagi's support during the Infinity arc, although the four get back in the spotlight during the Dream arc.
Statuesque Stunner: She's the tallest of the guardians, and Even the Girls Want Her.
Super Gender-Bender: The French dub censors Uranus' relationship with Neptune by making the former into a man with a female Guardian form.
These Hands Have Killed: While she hadn't killed anyone at that point yet, during the S season she looks at her hands and laments that they will become dirty after she and Neptune collect the Talismans from Eudial since the only way to get the Talismans is to rip them out of the hosts Pure Heart Crystals. Which makes it double ironic when it turns out the Talismans are inside her and Michiru's bodies the entire time.
Tomboyish Voice: She has a voice deep enough that it can easily pass as a teenage boy that hasn't broken his voice yet, thanks to Megumi Ogata in the 90s anime and Junko Minagawa in Crystal. This fits with her masculine characteristics.
Tomboy Princess: She'll power up and then literally kick your ass.
Tomboy with a Girly Streak: In the manga she wears very feminine outfits as often as she cross dresses, she also wears the female school uniforms and refers herself as female when not in male disguise.
Took a Level in Kindness: Downplayed. At the start, Haruka and Michiru both refuse to work with the other Sailor Guardians, look down on them like fools, and refuse to trust anyone but each other. They also thought that Usagi is unqualified to be the queen and that sparing Hotaru was foolish and idealistic. Once they accept the truth and see things beyond their old views, they become more open and caring and are just as loyal to Usagi as the Inners. However, once they return in the Stars season, they remain somewhat harsh, critical, and arrogant, but they're still clearly on Usagi's side.
Town Girls: The Butch to Setsuna's Neither and Michiru's Femme.
Trademark Favorite Food: Salads.
Tsundere: To some extent, she acts this way toward Usagi/Sailor Moon, specially as the S season went on. She can be downright mean and rude towards her, but it's clear that she deeply cares for Usagi.
Tsurime Eyes: Fits her tough, badass actiony personality.
Unskilled, but Strong: While Uranus and Neptune have some skill, they don't have the experience Sailor Moon and the Inner Guardians have (and are implied to have awoken as Soldiers a few months after the Black Moon Clan's final attack/before the Death Busters struck when they received visions of the world being destroyed by The Silence), yet their magical attacks are stronger than the Inners to better suit their responsibilities of keeping outside threats from attacking Earth.
Underestimating Badassery: Haruka and Michiru are set on the idea that the younger (younger by only one year) Sailor Guardians are just too idealistic to deal with threats as well as they do, despite the fact that it's common knowledge that Sailor Moon's team have been fighting and defeating all kinds of evil threats long before Uranus and Neptune appeared. Either Uranus and Neptune paid no attention to what's been going on or they think the Inners just got lucky too often.
Universal Driver's Licence: She can drive motorcycles, racing cars, helicopters, and who knows what else? And somehow, she learned all of that by age 16 (which isn't even legal in Japan in Real Life).
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: With their refusal to cooperate with the other guardians (who have more experience than them) and their belief that only they have the moral strength to make hard choices, she and Michiru tend to try and take control of the situation as if they know better which often makes things worse, like their Fake Defector scheme in the Grand Finale where they end up sacrificing Setsuna and Hotaru for nothing.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: This is mellowed a bit by working with the inner soldiers, but Uranus and Neptune still occasionally resort to more extreme tactics. Of course, they are usually proven wrong about said tactics being necessary.
Wholesome Crossdresser: She only cross-dresses some of the time in the manga rather than almost all of the time as in the anime, but Takeuchi tended to make her appear a little more physically masculine when cross-dressing.
World's Strongest Woman: Maybe not in terms of her powers, but certainly in terms of physical strength.
Would Hurt a Child: Uranus and Neptune try to kill 12-year-old Hotaru while her body is inhabited by Mistress 9, though Usagi defends her. Near the end of the series, they steal her Star Seed to keep up their deception against Galaxia.
Wrong Genre Savvy: Haruka and Michiru are convinced that they're the Pragmatic Heroes of a dark urban fantasy where victory without sacrifice is impossible. They're really living in a Magical Girl series that runs on The Power of Friendship, Usagi is the protagonist, and since they won't consider other options or accept help from anyone else, they're not nearly as pragmatic as they think they are.
You Are Worth Hell: Sailors Neptune and Uranus risk damnation in the last season, as long as they're together. Then there's Neptune's line about the world not being worth saving if Uranus isn't in it...

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