History Characters / SailorMoonChibiUsaSmallLadySerenity

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!!Usagi "Chibi-Usa" Small Lady Serenity/Rini -- Sailor Chibi Moon
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[[caption-width-right:299:[[labelnote: Click to see Usagi "Chibi-Usa" Small Lady Serenity.]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chibiusa_season_iii.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:299:[[labelnote: Click to see Chibi-Usa in Crystal Season 2.]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chibiusa_crystal_s2.png[[/labelnote]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:299:[[labelnote: Click to see Small Lady.]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/small_lady_5.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:299:[[labelnote: Click to see Small Lady in Crystal.]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/small_lady_crystal.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KaeAraki (first anime), Creator/MisatoFukuen (''Crystal'' onwards) (Japanese), Tracey Hoyt ([=DiC=]), Creator/StephanieBeard (Cloverway), Creator/SandyFox (Viz) (English), Creator/CristinaHernandez (Latin American Spanish, original/Crystal), Vanessa Garcel (Latin American Spanish, movies), Úrsula Bezerra (Brazilian Portuguese), Fernanda Figueiredo (European Portuguese), Amélie Morin (French, first anime, R movie), Sophie Gormezano (French, eps. 84-89), Corinne Martin (French, Stars, S and [=SuperS=] movies), Jennifer Fauveau (French, ''Crystal'')\\
'''Portrayed in the musicals by''': Ai Miyakawa, Mao Kawasaki, Tamaki Dia Shirai, Natsumi Takenaka, Ayano Gunji, Arisu Izawa, Kasumi Takabatake, Noël Miyazaki (Noeru Kariya), Aisha Yamamoto, Nanami Ōta, Mao Ōno, Mina Horita, Moe Ōsaki, Kokoro Kuge, Airi Kanda\\\
"''Guardian of Love and Justice, the pretty sailor suited soldier in training, Sailor Chibi Moon! In the name of the future moon, I'll punish you!''"

Usagi and Mamoru's bratty KidFromTheFuture who travels to the 20th century to steal Usagi's Silver Crystal in order to save the 30th century. She takes after her mother in most ways and generally behaves like an odd sort of AnnoyingYoungerSibling to her, but underneath the constant bickering and whining, it's apparent that the two really do care about each other. After departing for the future at the end of the second season, she returns for the third and fourth, this time a few years older and on a peaceful mission to train as a Sailor Guardian.
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* AdaptationalComicRelief: In the 90s anime, expect her to become a ButtMonkey as soon as she gets into a fight. The first time she tried using her Pink Sugar Heart Attack [[EpicFail says it all]]. Although in the manga, there were a number of side comics that dealt with her fighting a number of bad guys alongside of Sailor Moon and occasionally Sailor Venus. These were usually very goofy villains, like a spirit who got power from cavity pains.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In ''Crystal'', she's less bratty and more mature and polite as she's got a lot of CharacterDevelopment and TookALevelInKindness afterwards.
* AdaptationalJerkass: She's no saint in the original anime nor the Viz dub, but the [=DiC=] dub had her BrattyHalfPint tendencies cranked UpToEleven. Not helping that Tracey Hoyt made her sound even more intolerable than usual.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the manga and ''Crystal'', she had legitimate attacks. In the 90s anime, her one attack in ''S'' didn't work half the time, and the rest of the time it hurt the monster only as much as a hard spanking. By ''Super S'' she lost any attacks at all and her only power was transforming and having [[SummonMagic the ability to call Pegasus]].
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Chibi-Usa in the manga and ''Crystal'' is noticeably less bratty and more shy than her 90s anime version.
* AdultFear: Her entire background is full of this: her mother gets frozen into a deep sleep, her homeland is in danger, and is tracked down and threatened by several villains for the Silver Crystal.
* AllGirlsLikePonies: Falls in love with Helios who initially appears as Pegasus. Also, she briefly bonds with Reika over a fondness for horses.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Has some… confused feelings about Mamoru. Even after she knows he's her father, she sees his past self differently than his future self.
* AllLovingHeroine: Not as much as Usagi, though.
* AnimalMotifs: Rabbits, just like Usagi. She's even referred to as "Rabbit" [[GratuitousEnglish (in English, no less)]] by the Black Moon Clan and the Ayakashi Sisters.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: She acts like this towards Usagi, despite how she's actually Usagi's KidFromTheFuture.
* TheAtoner: In Episode 74, despite Usagi's objections, she goes with her to save the inner soldiers to make up for her previous mistake in the previous episode.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite their constant bickering and fights with one another it's made clear, multiple times, that Usagi and Chibi-Usa do indeed love one another with Usagi going full MamaBear if anyone even thinks about hurting her. Their tearful goodbye at the end of ''R'' really makes it stand out especially this line in the Viz English dub.
-->'''Chibi-Usa''': I love you, Mommy.
* BerserkButton: She will go on an UnstoppableRage if someone takes away her food -- accidentally or not -- [[{{Hypocrite}} even if she herself often does this to Usagi]].
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:At the Marine Cathedral, after Eudial snatches the talismans away from the Guardians and causes a wall of flames to trap them, Chibi-Usa and Mamoru arrive in the nick of time by way of crashing through a stained glass window. She then uses her Luna-P to extinguish the flames.]]
* BrattyHalfPint: At her worst. More in the anime, but the manga version wasn't above everything.
* BrokenPedestal: As a child, she had always heard stories about Sailor Moon always managing to save the world. But finding Usagi as a clumsy crybaby rips her faith in Sailor Moon apart and makes her think that Usagi is unworthy of the title and the crystal.
* ButtMonkey: In the original anime, when she transforms, she's on the receiving end, being a pathetic comic relief whose powers are no good to fight with.
* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Moon Prism Power, Make Up!", "Moon Crisis, Make Up!", "Pink Moon Crystal Power, Make Up! (manga)"
* CainAndAbelAndSeth: She's the Seth who joins Usagi and Shingo's Cain and Abel. Before, Usagi and Shingo had a petty but close and caring relationship. When Chibi-Usa comes along, she practically takes over the family. She becomes so bratty and troublesome to Usagi that Shingo would never stoop to her level, but she also steals Shingo's relationship with Usagi, while he is pushed out of the spotlight like an overlooked middle child.
* CharacterDevelopment: In the 90s anime, she was more mature in ''S'' than she had been in ''R''. By ''[=SuperS=]'', however, she was WiseBeyondHerYears to the point of being more mature than the other Soldiers, her friends, and even ''adult'' characters-of-the-day. Though it's more directed to {{Flanderization}} on ''[=SuperS=]''.
* CheerfulChild: At her best. She's usually more of a MouthyKid.
* TheChewToy: Not as often as [[LoserProtagonist Usagi]], but the moments she gets the short end of the stick is quite amusing given how bratty she tends to be.
* ComedicSpanking: She's constantly on the receiving end of this by Usagi for her brattiness. Needlessly to say, it's ''very'' deserving.
* CousinOliver: She came from the future and brainwashed Usagi's family into thinking she was her little sister/cousin (depending on the translation). Even if the intervention of Luna -- Usagi's magic talking cat -- prevents Usagi from falling under the influence of Chibi-Usa's magic, making her for some time the only one aware of Chibi-Usa's nature (even if Usagi learns only much later the whole story and that Chibi-Usa is really her daughter from the future).
* CrashIntoHello: This is how Chibi-Usa is introduced. She literally falls from the sky when Usagi and Mamoru are on a date, lands on Usagi, and ends up accidentally kissing Mamoru. HilarityEnsues.
* CreepyChild: Occasionally, particularly in her first appearance.
* CuteButCacophonic: Like her future mother, she is able to scream loud enough to stun a monster. It is said that, when Chibi-Usa and Usagi transformed, their screams are amplified by the red hairclips they have on their odango and turned into supersonic waves, which is how they manage to cause so much damage. However, it does require a cry loud enough to activate this "weapon", apparently.
* CuteWitch: She's time-traveled from the future for unspecified training, and her powers are mostly trickery rather than anything useful for fighting.
* TheCutie: Despite regularly being a BrattyHalfPint, she has her moments of being this, particularly involving her friendship with Hotaru.
* DaddysGirl: She is a perfect example, monopolizing her future father Mamoru/Darian's time and fighting over him with her future mother Usagi/Serena. Her unfortunate transformation into Black Lady even twists her innocent need for approval and love for Mamoru into a vision of her kissing him ([[Anime/SailorMoon 90s anime]]) and her actually taking him hostage and kissing him ([[Manga/SailorMoon manga]]). Even in the future, Chibi-Usa appears to have a more normal relationship with her father Endymion; while she loves her mother Neo-Queen Serenity dearly, [[WellDoneSonGuy she also idolizes her to the point of an inferiority-complex.]]
* DarkMagicalGirl: Wiseman corrupts her into one as Black Lady, a dark version of herself.
* DemotedToExtra: By the end of ''[=SuperS=]'', she was reduced to a cursory nod and eventually disappears altogether in ''Sailor Stars''. This was no doubt a result of fan backlash against the character.
* DependingOnTheWriter:
** Her relationship with Usagi. On some occasions (particularly in ''R''), she can get rather vicious when antagonizing Usagi. In other episodes, she does mess with Usagi but makes it clear she does love her.
** Normally, she has more emotional maturity and common sense than [[IdiotHero Usagi]], but some episodes will have her be just as immature and clueless as Usagi is.
** Her relationship with the other Guardians also counts. Either she is somewhat more respectful towards them than to Usagi or just as much as a grievance towards them. The latter is mostly in ''R'', though.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In ''R'', she stole Usagi's brooch under the reasoning that a ditz like Usagi didn't deserve to be Sailor Moon and decided to take the Silver Crystal inside back to the future. [[spoiler:Only thing she ends up doing is getting the Guardian Sailors captured and Usagi giving her a WhatTheHellHero for her actions.]]
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Like Usagi, she despises carrots.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Her BrokenPedestal about finding out what kind of person Sailor Moon is in present time. She overlooked one thing: Usagi is still a teenager with some growing up to do and Neo Queen Serenity has centuries worth of maturity.
* ElectraComplex: She's attracted to a literal younger version of her father. She later grows out of it after she meets Helios.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Turning her Luna-P into a gun, pointing it at Usagi in order to get her to hand over the Silver Crystal and is willing to pull the trigger, but only fires a dart.
* {{Expy}}: Pink-haired princess of a magical kingdom, who magically makes her adopted parents (or in this case, her maternal grandparents and uncle) think she's their daughter (or niece/cousin)? Sounds a lot like ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo''... (As a bonus, [[http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxrniwGta41qladnxo1_500.gif Momo's magical rod]] looks a lot like the one Moon has in Super-S.)
* FalseMemories: Courtesy of Wiseman, she is given these into thinking that both her parents' ToughLove on her were them giving her the cold shoulder. This turns her into Black Lady temporarily, though after she gains the real memories back, she becomes Chibi-Usa again.
* FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother: She is (sort of) in love with her father, Mamoru, or more specifically his past self, who she seems to regard as a different person, up to the point where she brainwashes him as Black Lady, an aged-up evil version of herself, and remains with the Black Moon simply because this way she will have Mamoru to herself forever. She's mentally only 8 years old at the time and seems to get over these feelings later, especially when she meets Helios and develops a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship with Hotaru, suggesting this is the childish variant rather than an actual incestuous crush.
* FearOfThunder: Like mother, like daughter. Though in her case it's played more seriously since, in the anime, she panics so much during a storm that [[spoiler:she tries to come back to the future ''and'' starts crying when it doesn't work, causing quite the [[RealityWarper physical phenomenons]] around her ''and'' releasing a huge PillarOfLight that reveals her whereabouts to the Black Moon.]]
* FlightOfRomance: She goes flying in the dream world with Helios.
* FreeRangeChildren: Played with. She's ReallySevenHundredYearsOld but is still physically a child. Either way, she still often wanders town unsupervised.
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* GenerationXerox: In TheNineties anime, Mamoru [[LampshadeHanging openly points out]] that she and Usagi are ''very'' similar personality wise.
* GirlishPigtails: Pink and pointy.
* HeartBeatDown: The Pink Sugar Heart Attack sends tiny {{Heart Symbol}}s to pelt opponents, though its effectiveness varies. The manga also had her team up with Sailor Moon to use Rainbow Double Moon Heart Ache.
* HereditaryHairstyle: She wears her hair in exaggerated {{odango}}s just like Usagi.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: When she isn't bickering with Usagi, she makes it clear she does love her and is sincerely thankful whenever Usagi helps her out. Not that she'll admit it to others.
* HollywoodGenetics: The pink-haired and red-eyed daughter of a blue-eyed blonde and a black-haired and dark blue-eyed man. Though in the manga, Grandma Ikuko has pink hair in some art.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** She accuses Usagi of being "ungrateful" for rejecting her mother's hot cakes, when she herself does not appreciate that Usagi had constantly put her own life on the line to save her from danger.
** In one episode, she gets viciously angry at Usagi after the latter unknowingly stole the pie she baked for a classmate. In other episodes, she would knowingly steal Usagi's food [[ItAmusedMe just for the sake of it]].
** For all her talk about Usagi being an incompetent guardian, she proves to be quite incompetent at being a guardian herself once she starts her training.
* IconicSequelCharacter: She doesn't appear until the fourth volume of the manga and the second season of the anime, but quickly becomes a very prominent character and eventually the deuteragonist in ''Super S'' (though she's DemotedToExtra after that).
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Sailor Moon tries to make Black Lady return to being Chibi-Usa multiple times thorough Act 24, only to be rebuked each time.
* ImmortalImmaturity: In the manga, where she's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld hundreds of years older than she appears]] but still has the maturity of a little girl.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: Has had two of them.
** Helios/Pegasus is all but confirmed to be the winner of Chibi-Usa’s hand in the future timeline, as ''Sailor Moon'' media and dialogue from the arc in which he appears suggest that he’s her prince, however, the audience never gets to see their relationship come to fruition in the form of an official couple due to how the series ends. ''Sailor Moon Drops'', which is currently the latest update in ''Sailor Moon'' media, depicts Helios alongside Chibi-Usa in her Small Lady form, holding her hand as they nuzzle against each other romantically, seemingly to push this trope further. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/84f76d3b_0977_4968_bf8b_275b2aabe4e7.jpeg They even have an official figure]], though it’s only Helios in his Pegasus form.
** Perle, the CanonForeigner from the ''Sailor Moon Super S'' movie, was also this to Chibi-Usa, though unlike Helios, he never shows up anywhere else and isn’t pushed as a love interest for her outside of it.
* IncestSubtext: She has a Freudian relationship with her future mother Usagi (who she looks down on) and her future father Mamoru (who she idolizes), and later, she's implied to have a crush on her future uncle Shingo. Possibly justified by the fact that she tends to think of them as different people from her future family, even while she knows that's not true.
* InterspeciesRomance: She falls in love with a unicorn. Or better said, a guy who appears to her first as a winged unicorn, and even in human form has a sort-of horn in his head.
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: "For love and justice, I am a sailor-suited pretty soldier in training: Sailor Chibi-Moon! In the name of the future moon, I will punish you!"
* ItsAllMyFault: She will often willingly admit it's her fault when things go wrong because of her. Pretty impressive given her occasional NeverMyFault tendencies.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In the anime mostly. While Chibi-Usa was genuinely extremely bratty and rude towards Usagi, it's somewhat understandable that she would resent Usagi's immature and irresponsible behavior; especially since Chibi-Usa idolizes the infinitely more wise and graceful Usagi of the future to the point of hurting her own self-esteem.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She can definitely be a pain in the rear, and even went as far as drugging Usagi in the R season so that she could have easy access to the Silver Crystal. On the other hand, it can't be denied her friendship with Hotaru and willingness to protect her (including nearly taking an attack that would've definitely killed her) is nothing short of caring. And as much as she may like to tease Usagi, she grows to genuinely appreciate her help and accept her as her future mom.
* JokeCharacter: As a fighter, especially in the anime. She starts to get a ''lot'' more powerful later in the manga, even able to collect her own team of Soldiers and help Sailor Moon fight Galaxia. [[spoiler:Granted she can't help in the final battle, [[RetGone owing to her dad's past self dying and erasing her from existence]], but she still saves Sailor Moon's life.]]
* KidAppealCharacter: She is very popular among the young viewers in Japan. Toei's attempts to focus on her story arc in ''[=SuperS=]'', however, backfired miserably and as such, her role was substantially reduced for the final episodes of the season. She had much better luck in ''Crystal'', though.
* KidFromTheFuture: Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion's daughter. Her real name is Princess Usagi Small Lady Serenity Tsukino. She liked the nickname Chibi-Usa so much, she added ''that'' to it as well.
* KidSidekick: To Usagi. At least she's physically and mentally a child (she's really over 900).
* KissOfLife: After Helios had used up all his energy to protect Usagi and Mamoru and presumably has died, in a last attempt to revive him, Chibi-Usa kisses him, begging him to do so. And he does.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After her ungrateful attempt of spitefully taking away Usagi's broach [[NiceJobBreakingItHero causes the Sailor Guardians to get captured by Rubeus]], she [[WhatTheHellHero gets harshly scolded by Usagi for it]] and eventually decides to become TheAtoner in order to fix the damage she caused.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Not many people may remember that Chibi-Usa/Rini being the daughter of Sailor Moon was once a late second-season revelation. Once she became Sailor Chibi-Moon, it was everywhere.
* LegacyCharacter: Chibi-Usa is in training to become the next Sailor Moon, although she only ever appears in-series as a BrattyHalfPint {{Sidekick}} with a cute addition to the name. The final arc of the manga implies that, in the future, she does indeed become the new Sailor Moon, since she brings her own quartet of Sailor Guardians to help Moon in the final battle against Sailor Galaxia.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Light feminine to Hotaru's dark feminine. This could be considered a subversion, however, considering [[BrattyHalfPint what Chibi-Usa is...]]
* LittleMissBadass: In the manga and ''Crystal'', where she's legitimately more powerful.
* LittleMissSnarker: Towards Usagi.
* LookBehindYou:
** She and Usagi try this on a Snow Dancer chasing them during the second ''Anime/SailorMoon'' movie. The Snow Dancer falls for it completely, and looks genuinely puzzled when she turns around and they aren't there anymore.
** Played adorably in the last episode of [=SuperS=], where Chibi-Usa wants her private discussion with Helios while the rest of the girls watch them. She screams "LOOK! A UFO!" and every one of them turns while she gives him a huge hug and says her goodbye.
* {{Lunacy}}: She gets her powers from the moon just like her mother.
* MacGuffinTurnedHuman: In the anime, turns out the Silver Crystal she was trying to find? [[spoiler:Inside her the entire time.]]
* MaybeEverAfter: With Helios across all of Sailor Moon media. It’s always heavily implied that the two will become a OfficialCouple in the future timeline, though due to how the series ends, the audience never gets to see it happen.
* MegaTwintails: Much wider than most pigtails in the series.
* MeaningfulName: Shares the name of Tsukino Usagi, so she also represents the MoonRabbit. Her nickname "Chibi-Usa" means "little rabbit", too. Her English name "Rini" is a diminutive of "Serenity", after her mother Neo-Queen Serenity (who in turn is named after her mother from her past incarnation).
* ModestRoyalty: Her princess dress in the manga is pretty modest, if you ignore the colour and frills.
* MoonRabbit: Same PunnyName as her mother. Her hair is designed to look like rabbit ears and she is even referred to as "Rabbit" at various points in the series.
* MoralMyopia: She has the knack of taking away Usagi's food [[ItAmusedMe for her own amusement]], but she goes ''ballistic'' when Usagi unknowingly takes the pie she was baking for a classmate.
* MoreThanMindControl: When [[spoiler:she's turned into Black Lady, especially in the manga.]]
* MouthyKid: Towards Usagi in TheNineties anime.
* MysteriousWaif: She first appears in this type of role. Convincing her that she can trust the Sailor Guardians is a major plot element.
* NeverMyFault: Part of her CharacterDevelopment in ''R'' is her problem with admitting and accepting responsibility for her actions, particularly that she caused the Silver Crystal of Crystal Tokyo to be lost to start with. She ''feels'' like it's her fault, but refuses to openly acknowledge and accept these feelings, which is part of how [[spoiler: Wiseman is able to brainwash her. During the final battle, she is able to make the crystal appear and save the day after finally breaking down and admitting "It's all my fault!"]]
* NewTransferStudent: The first chapter of ''Chibi-Usa's Picture Diary'' starts with Chibi-Usa having her first day of classes at Juuban primary school, after time traveling from 30th century to 20th century.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In ''R'', she probably shouldn't have stolen Usagi's brooch. However, her action ends up forcing Rubeus' hand, which causes the other Sailor Soldiers to be abducted by him.
* NomDeMom: Three times over. Possibly subverted in that she might be just using Tsukino as her last name since she is pretending to be Usagi's cousin.
* NotGrowingUpSucks: In the manga, much of her own personal {{angst}} derives from the fact that she has not been able to physically age past childhood. Fortunately for her, after spending a lot of time with Usagi and Co. in the past and after tons of training, she appears to be 12-13 years old around the final arc of the manga. The anime seems to have cut this plot point out entirely and just presents her as a regular little girl.
* NotSoDifferent: She and Usagi are more alike than they're willing to admit. At one point in ''Crystal'', the other characters lampshade how similar they are.
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* OhCrap: Has this when she leaves her time key behind.
* OverlyLongName: Her real name and full title is Princess Usagi Small Lady Serenity (we don't know what possessed Usagi into giving her such a name). She liked the nickname Chibi-Usa so much, she added ''that'' to it as well. When she arrives in the present, she introduces herself as "Usagi" despite everyone in the future calling her "Small Lady" and she's registered at school as "Usagi Tsukino" much like her mother, though it's unknown if Tsukino actually part of her name, if her dad's family name is her legal in the future or if she even has one at all. (If it is part of her name, it would be Princess Usagi "Chibi-Usa" Small Lady Serenity Tsukino).
** It's established that when she eventually grows up, she drops the small part of her titles becoming "Princess Usagi Lady Serenity".
* ParentalIncest: While she has an OedipusComplex for her father, as Black Lady, she specifically targets her own father for brainwashing to monopolize his attentions, kissing him on-panel in the manga.
* ParentChildTeam: With Usagi whenever they fight side by side.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Sailor Chibi Moon's fuku always has pink, not to mention that her hair is pink.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: [[spoiler:In the manga, after Pluto's death, Chibi-Usa is able to de-brainwash herself and transform from a powerless little kid into a 12-year-old Sailor Chibi-Moon.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: When she feels that Usagi isn't responsible enough to have her transformation brooch, instead of discussing the issue with Usagi herself, she decides to steal her brooch without the latter's knowledge, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero causing Usagi's friends to get captured by Rubeus]] since she cannot transform into Sailor Moon without it. Usagi unsurprisingly [[WhatTheHellHero is extremely pissed at her for this]].
* ThePrankster: On Usagi.
* PrayerPose: Clasps her hands and kneels right before she summons Pegasus.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Her Guardian outfit. Her princess outfit is also pink, but not in the 90's anime, where it's a mini-version of Princess Serenity's dress.
* PuppyLove: With Helios/Pegasus, who has the looks of a 12-year-old.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: In the manga, Chibi-Usa is much older than her anime counterpart. Justified that [[spoiler:her birth took place eight years after the beginning of the Sailor Moon storyline.]]
* RebuiltPedestal: Though she still thinks of Usagi as a ditzy crybaby and likes to get under her skin, she does come to appreciate her more as time goes on.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red Oni to Hotaru's Blue Oni. She is often bratty and rather hot-headed, in contrast to her sweet and reserved best friend Hotaru.
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: To Shingo. After he got some CharacterDevelopment and HiddenDepths over the course of the first season, she became the new AnnoyingYoungerSibling to Usagi and was even more childishly bratty than Shingo had ever been.
* RetGone:
** Happens to her in ''Stars'' after Galaxia kills her father so she can never be born. In the manga, it takes a while because the future becomes unstable, while in the anime, it happens almost immediately (though she vanishes from photos, the other Soldiers remember her). Fortunately, since Mamoru is revived, she can once again exist.
** It also happened (again temporarily) in the Nehellenia arc of ''Stars'' due to Mamoru being placed in an almost permanent state of dreaming by Nehellenia because Usagi couldn't get together with a man in a coma.
** She worries about this happening in''[=SuperS=]'', when a girl crushes on her father and Chibi-Usa fears she might want to take her away from her mother. Fortunately, the other girl knows that she can't break up Mamoru and Usagi's love.
* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: Inverted. She's the Rude Sidekick (a rude BrattyHalfPint who has a knack of belittling Usagi) to Usagi's Nice Hero (a compassionate AllLovingHero). She does [[CharacterDevelopment get better]] after episode 73, though she still has the habit of messing with Usagi every once in a while.
* SayMyName: At the end of season 4: "Helios!" "Chibi-usa!" "That's the first time... you said my name."
* ShipTease: Though she gets some moments with Hotaru and Perle, in the Dream arc, she finds her own prince in the form of Pegasus/Helios.
* ShooOutTheClowns: After the backlash against Chibi-Usa that she had in ''[=SuperS=]'', her role was reduced substantially towards the end of the season and completely disappears by the beginning of ''Sailor Stars''. Unlike the manga version, she doesn't even show up with her team, the Sailor Quartet, to help in the final battle.
* ShrinkingViolet: Has some shades of this in the manga.
* SiblingRivalry: Though she's actually Usagi's KidFromTheFuture, she and Usagi act like vitriolic siblings; they poke and bother each other, but are very mutually protective when push comes to shove.
* SmartJerkAndNiceMoron: Smart Jerk to Usagi's Nice Moron. Chibi-Usa a wise but rude and condescending BrattyHalfPint who regularly messes with her, while Usagi is the textbook example of DumbIsGood.
* SolarAndLunar: With her prince Helios, since she gets her powers from the moon and he's named for the sun god (and may actually be the stand-in for Sailor Sun).
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Became this during ''Super S'', where the show is more about her than Usagi.
* SuperCuteSuperPowers: Her "Pink Sugar Heart Attack" is every bit as feminine as it sounds.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Black Lady.
* SurpriseIncest: When she appears, she has an AccidentalKiss with Mamoru and [[OedipusComplex competes with Usagi for his affections]]. Mamoru and Usagi are surprised to learn that she's their KidFromTheFuture.
* TagalongKid: Of the BrattyHalfPint variety.
* TokenMiniMoe: As the youngest and smallest of the main cast, she is intended to to be cute to readers/viewers.
* TookALevelInKindness: She eventually gets better in ''S'' and ''Super S'' where she did act mature at some points. On top of that, she even nicer in ''Crystal'' where she gets along with Usagi better. This is a huge CharacterDevelopment for Chibi-Usa.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pudding and pancakes.
* TraumaSwing: In one episode, in a battle-damaged playground, she sits on a swing going over traumatic memories of when the Black Moon Clan attacked Crystal Tokyo.
* {{Tsundere}}: A distinctly non-romantic variant, but she's definitely a hard tsun type in ''R''. To give an example, when she's trying to convince Usagi to go rescue Mamoru during the ''R'' movie, she ''whips out a handgun'' and shoots her in the face. [[note]]It's actually just a dart gun, but it looks plenty realistic up until it fires.[[/note]] Whereas in ''Super S'', she's at her most dere.
* UngratefulBitch: Only in the Canadian dub of the 90s anime, when she's flanderized into acting more bratty than she actually is. (While kinda bratty in the original anime, she was nowhere ''that'' bad save for very counted times.) Then again, in her defense, she does eventually grow out of this... especially after the following trope takes place. In ''R'', she had a habit of blithely running off and getting Sailor Moon and the Soldiers into major trouble when they try to get her out of whatever situation she'd gotten herself into. And she ''still'' didn't deem Usagi worthy of possessing the Silver Moon Crystal Brooch and steals it from her, leading to the WhatTheHellHero moment below.
* UnstoppableRage: She goes completely ballistic when Usagi accidentally took away the pie she was baking for a classmate.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: The Serious Child to Usagi's Wacky Parent, though Chibi-Usa is technically Usagi's future daughter.
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: In both the manga and anime, her chief motivation in her initial arc is to live up to her mother's standards.
* WhatTheHellHero: She gets a ''huge'' one from Usagi in ''R'', [[spoiler:when the inner soldiers are captured by Rubeus after she foolishly steals Usagi's brooch containing the Silver Crystal and attempts to return to the future, preventing Usagi -- the most powerful member of the team -- from being able to transform and come to her aid when Rubeus comes after her]]. When this happens, the usually forgiving Usagi [[BewareTheSillyOnes is so angry]] that she has to be stopped by Mamoru from ''beating Chibi-Usa'':
-->'''Usagi''': CHIBI-USA!!! Stupid! You ruined everything! This is all your fault!
* WhosLaughingNow: Wiseman [[MindRape convinces]] her that everyone saw her as an annoying little brat and wanted her gone. She uses the powers he gives her to turn into Black Lady and treats her former friends this way.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pink in this case.
* YoungAndInCharge: After returning to the future at the end of the Dream arc in the manga, she joins up and leads the Sailor Quartet, her own team consisting of Sailors Vesta, Pallas, Juno and Ceres. Offical artwork also groups Hotaru in with them but it's unknown if she's actually fought with them.
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* CousinOliver: She came from the future and brainwashed Usagi's family into thinking she was her little sister/cousin (depending on the translation). Even if the intervention of Luna -- Usagi's magic talking cat -- prevents Usagi from falling under the influence of Chibiusa's magic, making her for some time the only one aware of Chibiusa's nature (even if Usagi learns only much later the whole story and that Chibiusa is really her daughter from the future).

* CuteButCacophonic: Like her future mother, she is able to scream loud enough to stun a monster. It is said that, when Chibiusa and Usagi transformed, their screams are amplified by the red hairclips they have on their odango and turned into supersonic waves, which is how they manage to cause so much damage. However, it does require a cry loud enough to activate this "weapon", apparently.

* DaddysGirl: She is a perfect example, monopolizing her future father Mamoru/Darian's time and fighting over him with her future mother Usagi/Serena. Her unfortunate transformation into Black Lady even twists her innocent need for approval and love for Mamoru into a vision of her kissing him ([[Anime/SailorMoon 90s anime]]) and her actually taking him hostage and kissing him ([[Manga/SailorMoon manga]]). Even in the future, [=ChibiUsa=] appears to have a more normal relationship with her father Endymion; while she loves her mother Neo-Queen Serenity dearly, [[WellDoneSonGuy she also idolizes her to the point of an inferiority-complex.]]

* FalseMemories: Courtesy of Wiseman, she is given these into thinking that both her parents' ToughLove on her were them giving her the cold shoulder. This turns her into Black Lady temporarily, though after she gains the real memories back, she becomes Chibiusa again.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Sailor Moon tries to make Black Lady return to being Chibiusa multiple times thorough Act 24, only to be rebuked each time.

** Helios/Pegasus is all but confirmed to be the winner of Chibiusa’s hand in the future timeline, as ''Sailor Moon'' media and dialogue from the arc in which he appears suggest that he’s her prince, however, the audience never gets to see their relationship come to fruition in the form of an official couple due to how the series ends. ''Sailor Moon Drops'', which is currently the latest update in ''Sailor Moon'' media, depicts Helios alongside Chibiusa in her Small Lady form, holding her hand as they nuzzle against each other romantically, seemingly to push this trope further. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/84f76d3b_0977_4968_bf8b_275b2aabe4e7.jpeg They even have an official figure]], though it’s only Helios in his Pegasus form.
** Perle, the CanonForeigner from the ''Sailor Moon Super S'' movie, was also this to Chibiusa, though unlike Helios, he never shows up anywhere else and isn’t pushed as a love interest for her outside of it.

* JerkassHasAPoint: In the anime mostly. While Chibiusa was genuinely extremely bratty and rude towards Usagi, it's somewhat understandable that she would resent Usagi's immature and irresponsible behavior; especially since Chibiusa idolizes the infinitely more wise and graceful Usagi of the future to the point of hurting her own self-esteem.

* KissOfLife: After Helios had used up all his energy to protect Usagi and Mamoru and presumably has died, in a last attempt to revive him, Chibiusa kisses him, begging him to do so. And he does.

* NewTransferStudent: The first chapter of ''Chibiusa's Picture Diary'' starts with Chibiusa having her first day of classes at Juuban primary school, after time traveling from 30th century to 20th century.

** She worries about this happening in''[=SuperS=]'', when a girl crushes on her father and Chibiusa fears she might want to take her away from her mother. Fortunately, the other girl knows that she can't break up Mamoru and Usagi's love.

* SmartJerkAndNiceMoron: Smart Jerk to Usagi's Nice Moron. Chibiusa a wise but rude and condescending BrattyHalfPint who regularly messes with her, while Usagi is the textbook example of DumbIsGood.

* TookALevelInKindness: She eventually gets better in ''S'' and ''Super S'' where she did act mature at some points. On top of that, she even nicer in ''Crystal'' where she gets along with Usagi better. This is a huge CharacterDevelopment for Chibiusa.

* WackyParentSeriousChild: The Serious Child to Usagi's Wacky Parent, though Chibiusa is technically Usagi's future daughter.

* OdangoHair: Hers are shaped like rabbit ears, in keeping with her rabbit motif.

** She criticizes Usagi for being "ungrateful" for rejecting her mother's hot cakes, when she herself does not appreciate that Usagi had constantly put her own life on the line to save her from danger.

* ComedicSpanking: She's constantly on the receiving end of this by Usagi for her brattiness.

** Her relationship with the other Guardians also counts. Either she is somewhat more respectful towards them with Usagi or just as much as a grievance towards them. The latter is mostly in ''R'', though.