History Characters / SailorMoonMinakoAino

* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Venus Power, Make Up!", "Venus Star Power, Make Up!", "Venus Planet Power, Make up!" (manga) "Venus Crystal Power, Make Up!", "Moon Power, Make-up!"(During her days as Sailor V)

* MysteriousPast: There are hints she grew up abroad (her malapropism, her perfect knowledge of English [[BookDumb while having bad grades in it]], her use of kicks extremely similar to Savate ones, and, in the anime, her already knowing Alan ''before'' her known stint in London), but it's never elaborated upon.

* GeniusDitz: Gets terrible grades in school, is a slacker when it comes to academics, and constantly uses malapropisms, but she is the guardians' incredibly combat-capable leader, she is incredibly powerful even without being Sailor Venus, is surprisingly good at anything she actually cares about, and in the anime, she is shown to be bilingual.

* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Just to emphasize how utterly ''screwed'' Queen Beryl was, Sailor Venus [[HiddenEyes glowered]] at Beryl and muttered "...Now you've gone and pissed me off." when Beryl began strangling [[{{Protectorate}} Sailor Moon]]. Venus summoned the Holy Sword and executed Beryl with it.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Flowing blond hair, modeled after Venus, Goddess of Love, Beauty and Fertility.

* RedHerring: When Venus shows up Artemis tells everyone that she is the reincarnation of Princess Serenity and everyone believes it due to her sheer power and seriousness in battle. Pretty much nobody could see it coming that the ditzy clumsy Usagi was the true Princess Serenity least of all Usagi herself.

* ShellShockedVeteran: The manga version has shades of this, after being forced to kill [[spoiler:her true love]] in the ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' finale... [[StepfordSmiler And forcing herself to continue the mission with a smile on her face.]]
* ShipTease: While she always puts her duty before love, this doesn't stop the ship teases. The manga hints at a relationship between the Inners and the Shitennou, including Minako/Kunzite. There's plenty of HoYay with Rei in the manga and live-action, and Minako often crushes one-off characters. She and Artemis are only friends, and separate species at that, but they can get a little too close, and in the last arc, she and Yaten have their moments. Back in her solo series, she had a crush on Motoki, just like Makoto, and had feelings for her own equivalent of Tuxedo Mask named Phantom Ace, but he [[spoiler:turned out to be the Big Bad]].

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Parodied when Minako laments - "surely it is a curse to be this beautiful?" - and the other girls roll their eyes.

* StrongAndSkilled: Extremely atlethically gifted even as a civilian, and, differently from Makoto, knows how to use it to beat a squadron of youma to death.

* TearsOfRemorse: Minako cries only twice: the first because the first youma she killed happened to be the boy she was crushing on, and the other after killing the BigBad Danburite, as he was [[spoiler:her true love]].
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: While Minako is HotBlooded and can think on her feet, she is the Technician to Usagi's Performer with regards to how they deal with being a soldier. While Usagi is determined to protect everybody she cares about and save the world, Minako had to [[spoiler:kill her one true love and watch as another man she loved apparently get together with her CoolBigSis]], abandon her dream of becoming an IdolSinger, and watch as her friends became estranged from her. At times, she showed resentment for how much she had to give up for her work. However,she trains herself to perfection, and accepts that she'll have to make pragmatic, yet painful decisions to further the goals of the Sailor Team. In the Silver Millenium, it fell upon her shoulders to rein Princess Serenity in to prevent her from causing trouble with her impulsiveness.

* TragicKeepsake: She first wore a ribbon in her hair because her first love, later revealed to be [[MonsterOfTheWeek a youma and her first kill]], told her it would look good on her... [[SubvertedTrope And still wears it because it does, in fact, look good on her]]. Played straight with the Ace of Hearts card she's sometimes holding in manga posters, as it practically was her true love's symbol. It's not ''his'' card, as that one got ripped, but it's still a motif taken from him.

* UndyingLoyalty: To Usagi, especially in the manga. Along with having fought youma for a year, she [[spoiler:killed her one true love and any chance at romance]] so that she could focus on her mission to protect her, killed Beryl in one strike after Beryl threatened Sailor Moon, kicked her brainwashed fellow guardian, Makoto, into unconsciousness when Makoto was about to attack Usagi, declared (along with Rei) to the Three Lights that she'd dedicated her life to protecting the Princess and threatened the lives of the Lights right afterwards. Not to mention, she was the one to lead the soldiers into a group attack that kills them but saves Sailor Moon.

* MarriedToTheJob: She will ''always'' put duty above everything, including love. Best shown in the finale of the ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'', where she [[spoiler:killed her first love upon discovering he was a member of the Dark Kingdom]], and the anime episode where she was actually tempted to quit being a Sailor Soldier to find love but decided to throw away her best chance to a boyfriend.

* MementoMacGuffin: She started wearing her red hair ribbon after the guy she liked suggested she'd look good in one. She continues wearing it [[spoiler:even after he's revealed to be a youma and she has to kill him, but mostly because she ''does'' like how it looks on her]].

* OddNameOut: Minako's name doesn't fit in the ThemeNaming, as her last name doesn't refer to the planet Venus... [[SubvertedTrope Except the kanji of her given name can be read "Binasu", the older romanization of the word "Venus"]]. Her last name does however include "Love" in it's charcters, giving an indirect reference.

* HeartbrokenBadass: In the manga, at the end of the Sailor V manga, [[spoiler:she is forced to kill her one true love, upon which she realizes that she'll always choose duty over love]] and in the anime, [[spoiler:during her trip to England, she discovers her friend Alan, who she was in love with, was having an affair with her other friend Katarina, and she decides to let them be happy together and returns to Japan, letting them think she had died.]]

* InSeriesNickname: Her friends often shorten her name to "Mina", which is probably why her name was changed to that in the [=DiC=] dub. Also, many call her alter ego V-chan.
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: "For love and beauty, I am a sailor-suited pretty soldier: Sailor Venus! In the name of Venus, I will deliver divine punishment!"
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In one episode of the first season that was cut from the English dub, she left England, allowing her big-sister figure and her crush to be together after seeing them cry in each others arms because they thought Sailor V was killed in an explosion.

** She's the most notable in the live action for going through this twice. The first one mirrors the Sailor V-Sailor Venus one in the manga; the latter, obtained much later, fully awakens her powers to the point she ''kicks Metallia out of the youma it was possessing''.

* FlightStrengthHeart: In the manga, Sailor Venus' power set includes: SuperStrength, FrickinLaserBeams, [[ExtraOreDinary control over metals]] (apparently), purifying people corrupted by magic, and summon ''stinking atmosphere from Venus''.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: In a moment of discomposure over the deaths of Mercury and Jupiter, she gets one from Uranus in the [=StarS=] arc of the manga
* GiantWaistRibbon: Super Sailor Venus, Eternal Sailor Venus.

* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Sailor Venus wears mostly white and is blond (and carries a golden weapon in the manga), and is associated with the goddess of love and beauty (as well as at least once being referred to as a goddess of ''war'').
* GoodIsNotSoft: Minako is [[GenkiGirl cheerful]], goofy, and [[BullyHunter regularly defends those getting picked on]]. She is also perfectly willing to knock out her own comrade and violently kill [[spoiler:her own true love]] for the [[MarriedToTheJob sake of her mission]] and protecting Sailor Moon. Her M.O. of dealing with youma while working as Sailor V was to beat it into oblivion with her fists [[KickChick and feet]], even using her [[CombatStilettos heels]] to get the job done. She's almost as brutal dealing with school bullies and the like as she is with ''youma''. Not to mention, she killed [[TheDragon Beryl]] in the manga.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Flowing blond hair, modeled after Venus, God of Love, Beauty and Fertility.

* HeroicSecondWind: Played for laughs (albeit a bit disturbingly) in Sailor Moon S. Victims of Death Busters tend to go unconscious immediately when their crystal hearts get extracted. Minako, meanwhile, spends most of her episode worrying about the fact that she hasn't been targeted yet, and when Eudial comes after her she's been drinking large quantities of energy drink. When her heart crystal is extracted, Minako is so overjoyed by the proof that she has a pure heart that she actually runs off with it, giggling maniacally, much to the shock of both the Outers and Eudial... [[OhNoNotAgain And Usagi's annoyance]].

* HiddenDepths: She can be very silly at times but is the most experienced Sailor Guardian and can speak near-perfect English. Also, much of her happy-go-lucky persona is a put-on façade to hide the pain she feels over the sacrifices she'd made for the sake of her mission.

* HurtingHero: Her duties come at expense to her personal happiness and desires. In the manga, she [[spoiler:killed her true love after learning that he was a part of the Dark Kingdom]], realizing she’d always pick duty over love, something she’d constantly sought after. In the '90s anime her social life fell apart because of how much of her time was taken up by being Sailor V; she watched her big sister figure fall in love with the guy she liked and decided [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy their happiness was more important than hers]]. Unlike the other guardians, she had no allies other than Artemis to support her for quite a while after awakening. Even after having met the rest of the guardians, she still struggles with feeling like she's given up her own happiness for the mission. She's still unquestionably dedicated to fulfilling her destiny, protecting Sailor Moon, defending the world, and improving the lives of those around her.

* InexplicablyAwesome: She whips out many skills from time to time, but the only ones that actually get explained are her prowess at volley ([[JapaneseSchoolClub membership in the volley club in her first year at junior high and likely earlier]]), her skills as a manga artist assistant (was seen learning on-page), and, in the anime, her knowledge of English (her London days. All but stated to be at least the second time she goes there). Everything else goes unexplained.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's a very nice girl, who has been late to wherever she was going more than once due to helping people in trouble, donates blood... and has racked up an impressive body count, which in the manga includes her first love (was a youma, and became her first kill) and [[spoiler:''her true love'' (he had just revealed himself as Kunzite's {{Dragon}}, and [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou when she asked him to surrender]] he attacked and got disintegrated)]].

* BeyondTheImpossible: Minako repeatedly pulls off feats of athleticism and endurance that surpass the limits of human capability (even among the other guardians).

* BodyDouble: To Usagi/Sailor Moon, which is the (in-universe) reason they look so similar to each other and have disguise powers: in the Silver Millennium, one of Sailor Venus's responsibilities was to serve as a body double for Princess Serenity when needed.

* BreakTheCutie: Originally a cheerful FunPersonified girl, as Sailor V, she goes through pains of fighting alone for a year, only to [[spoiler:be forced to kill her true love when he's an agent of the Dark Kingdom]], and she gave up on dreams and love to focus on her mission.

* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Venus power, make up!", "Venus star power, make up!", Venus Planet Power, Make up! (manga) "Venus crystal power, make up!", "Moon Power, Make-up!" During her days as Sailor V.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: The one Sailor Soldier known to regularly exercise aside for Michiru (who swims so often she has a pool in her apartment). Among many other feats of superhuman athleticism, Minako can leap onto Usagi's balcony without transforming (that means with nothing but her own strength), can send TheBigGirl flying across a room with one kick (also untransformed), and not only survive excruciating attacks from the generals of the BigBad but proceed to outrun a car. Even after running herself ragged trying to two-time Tigers Eye and Hawks Eye at the same time, even to the point where she outright collapses in the middle of the road, she has enough energy a few minutes later to ''tear through metal manacles'' and kick their butts for "tricking a poor maiden's heart".

* DarkAndTroubledPast: She became Sailor V at the tender age of 13 and was forced to deal with the harsher side of saving the world, [[spoiler:including killing the man she loved when she realized he was the BigBad]]. Her life hasn't been purely hellish, but it hasn't been easy either.

** In the first anime, there are hints that ''Artemis and Sailor Moon themselves'' are terrified of her getting angry. The speed with which Sailor Moon takes cover when she realizes Venus is angry may have actually saved from becoming collateral damage once...

** Anime: she's the active soldier for the most time, stops bank robbers in her free time and single-handedly freed London from Dark Kingdom monsters (where the other soldiers were nearly killed many times, once being saved by Venus who had just returned from London). Comes second season and we find out that Sailor Venus has apparently been overshadowed by Sailor Moon and forgotten. It didn't help that her Sailor V persona was presumed dead after one mission back in London.
** Manga: in the Dream Arc ''her own teammates'' were so in awe of the Outers they adopted them as role models and completely forgot her role in training them and saving them from Zoisite in the first arc, rescuing them from the Black Moon in the second, and generally putting a performance as good or better than the Outers in the third, something she eventually call them out on-before going on what under the circumstances is a suicide mission just to prove she still has it. And not noticing that [[SubvertedTrope they actually held her in such high esteem they couldn't take her as a role model anymore]].

* EmbarrassingButEmpoweringOutfit: Went on record stating her Sailor V costume to be this, and demanding Artemis changed it into armor such as [[ChainmailBikini the one worn by the protagonist of her favorite video game]]. There's no stated opinion on the following costumes.

* BarrierMaiden: Her future self in Crystal Tokyo, though this role is more improvised since [[spoiler:Neo Queen Serenity was gravely wounded and that hit Neo Crystal Tokyo's defenses ''hard'']].

* {{Flanderization}}: In order to distinguish Minako from Usagi (who was actually an {{Expy}} of Minako from ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' in the manga), she was made more ditzy and less mature as the first anime went on (compare her introduction in the first season - where she was more the EveryGirl than anything with her only real "ditzy" aspect being she would get her proverbs mixed up - with how she was acting in the last), which is actually a reverse from the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], where she became more mature and intelligent as the series progressed.

* TookALevelInDumbass: In the 90s anime, in order to differentiate her character from Usagi (who was originally an expy of her), but only in her civilian form as she's ''always'' shown to be capable as Venus. However, this is something of a subversion in that Minako was ''always'' like this. It's simply that, when she was first introduced in the anime it had been after she spent months dedicating herself as Sailor V with no time for a social life. The gradual increase of Minako's ditz moments were the result of her being able to finally ''relax'' after so long.

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RikaFukami (first anime), Creator/ShizukaIto (''Crystal'') (Japanese), Stephanie Morgenstern ([=DiC=]), Creator/EmilieClaireBarlow (Cloverway), Creator/CheramiLeigh (Viz) (English), Creator/MariaFernandaMorales (Latin American Spanish, original/Crystal), Claudia Lössl (German), Eleonora Prado (Brazilian Portuguese, Classic), Priscila Concepción (Brazilian Portuguese, R - Stars), Cristina Paiva (European Portuguese)\\
'''Portrayed in ''PGSM'' by''': Ayaka Komatsu\\
'''Portrayed in the musicals by''': Nana Suzuki, Chidzuru Soya, Kanatsu Nakaya, Akiko Miyazawa, Yumi Otani, Nao Inada, Yuki Nakamura, Ayumi Murata, Mizuki Watanabe, Momoko Shibuya, Erika, Shiori Sakata\\\

* TheAce: In the manga, she is by far the most experienced Sailor Soldier due to awakening and fighting on her own for a full year before the others. It shows in her battle skills, and she's the guardian who Usagi aspires to be like.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Was a lot sweeter and friendlier in the original anime where her forceful, HotBlooded tendencies were shifted to Rei's character.
* {{Adorkable}}: A perky, cheerful and slightly tomboyish schoolgirl and she can be almost as ditzy as Usagi at times.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: She loved Ace's alter ego in the manga before he turned out to be the enemy. She also gets a lot of one-shots in the anime like Alan and Asai.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She ''had'' a thriving social life at first, but after she awakened to her power as Sailor V she had less and less time for her friends due to the demands of fighting evil and maintaining TheMasquerade. As a result, her friends drifted away and her peers assumed she felt she was too good for them, mocking her for "pretending to be Sailor V."
* AlreadyMetEveryone: Sailor Venus and Artemis are more than familiar with everything that is connected to Sailor Moon. Minako is even familiar with Luna's secret control room. Justified as she secretly mentored the other Guardians through the arcade game and used the control room during her Sailor V days.

* AmusingInjuries: In Rei's and Minako's exam battle chapter, Minako was shown to have been whipped by the strict teachers at T.A. Girl's Academy. The beat-up Minako was drawn in a comical manner and Rei was amused at her inability to fit in.

* BarrierMaiden: Her future self in Crystal Tokyo, though this role is more improvised since [[spoiler:Neo Queen Serenity was gravely wounded and that hit Neo Crystal Tokyo's defenses ''hard''.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In the live action series Minako actually achieved her dream of becoming a famous celebrity and idol that her other incarnations have always wanted before the start of the series... however all her fame succeeds in doing is [[LonelyAtTheTop isolating her from normal relationships]] and making her job as Sailor V even harder.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's a very nice girl, who has got late to wherever she was going more than once just to help people in trouble, donates blood... And has racked up an impressive body count, that in the manga includes her first love (was a youma, and became her first kill) and [[spoiler:''her true love'' (he had just revealed himself as Kunzite's {{Dragon}}, and [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou when she asked him to surrender]] he attacked, and got disintegrated)]].

* BeyondTheImpossible: Minako repeatedly pulls off feats of athleticism and endurance that surpass the limits of human capability (even among the other guardians.)
* BigDamnHeroes: Her full debut has her come to the Guardians' aid this way, though it differs between versions. In the manga and ''Crystal'', she saves Moon from Zoicite; in the anime, she first saves Tuxedo Mask from Zoicite, then the other Guardians from Kunzite.

* BodyDouble: To Usagi/Sailor Moon, which is the (in-universe) reason they look so similar to each other and have disguise powers: in the Silver Millennium, one of Sailor Venus' responsibilities was to serve as a body double for Princess Serenity when needed.

* BreakTheCutie: Originally a cheerful FunPersonified girl, as Sailor V, she goes through pains of fighting alone for a year, only to [[spoiler:be forced to kill her true love when he's an agent of the Dark Kingodm]] and she gave up on dreams and love to focus on her mission.
* BrilliantButLazy: She is pretty clever, streetwise, a great strategist, and in the anime learns English no problem, but sees no value applying herself in school.
* BrokenAce: In the live action, she's pretty, famous, and the best and most professional of the guardians. However, she's dying and she's distracting herself by plunging into her duties as a soldiers. In the manga, she is TheLeader and the most experienced of the inner soldiers, and the one that Usagi looks up to the most but only became this way through her eye-opening stint as Sailor V. She started fighting crime and killing monsters when she was 13, and was the first to learn about the Moon Kingdom's past.
* BrokenBird: She's got quite a difficult past in all versions, but especially in the live-action where on top of everything else she's dying of a terminal illness.

* BroughtDownToNormal: In the [=SuperS=] manga, temporarily. This actually happened to ''everybody'', and for the Guardians it was the ''second'' time it had technically happened to them, no less. Minako was just more obvious in her angst about it, and she was the last one to recover.

* PluckyGirl: Minako repeatedly displays tremendous willpower. Case in point: extracting the heart crystal or Dream Mirror always leaves the victim helplessly weak -- if at all conscious -- up to and including Sailor Soldiers. Minako was the only exception to both rules; in the former case, helped along by the large amount of energy drinks she'd been chugging, she managed to stay conscious long enough to grab her pure heart crystal and outrun Eudial (who was in a ''car''), and in the latter, she broke free from the rack, transformed, and opened up a goddess-sized can of whoopass on both Amazon guys and their lemures. Yeah, you do ''not'' mess with Minako.

* RapunzelHair: Has magnificent blond hair that reaches down to her knees. It's only seen fully down in the episode where she takes Usagi to the hairdressers to cheer her up.

* SerialRomeo: The last chapter of ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' shows Artemis sarcastically congratulating her for her ''5,000th first love'' (the main series of the manga abandoned the gag due how the last chapter ended). She has a little bit of this in the anime as well arguably the most memorable example being when she dated (a disguised) Hawk's Eye and Tiger's Eye at the same time ''on the same day.''

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: In the anime she can speak an almost accentless Queen's English. Then again, [[CallBack she has lived in London for a few months...]]

* TearsOfRemorse: Minako cries only twice: the first because the first youma she killed happened to be the boy she was crushing on, and the other after killing the BigBad Danburite, as he was [[spoiler: her true love]].

* ShipTease: While she puts duty before love, this doesn't stop the ship teases. The manga hints at a relationship between the Inners and the Shitennou, including Minako/Kunzite. There's plenty of HoYay either with Rei in the manga and live-action, and Minako often crushes one-off characters. She and Artemis are only friends, and separate species at that, but they can get a little too close, and in the last arc, she and Yaten have their moments. Back in her solo series, she had a crush on Motoki, just like Makoto, and had feelings for her own equivalent of Tuxedo Mask named Phantom Ace, but he [[spoiler:turned out to be the Big Bad]].

'''Portrayed in the musicals by''': Nana Suzuki, Chidzuru Soya, Kanatsu Nakaya, Akiko Miyazawa, Yumi Otani, Nao Inada, Yuki Nakamura, Ayumi Murata, Mizuki Watanabe, Momoko Shibuya, Erika, Shiori Sakata\\
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* BodyDouble: To Usagi/Sailor Moon, which is the (in-universe) reason they look so similar to each other and have disguise powers: in the Silver Millennium, one of Sailor Venus's responsibilities was to serve as a body double for Princess Serenity when needed.

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** Manga: in the Dream Arc ''her own teammates'' were so in awe of the Outers they completely forgot her role in training them and saving them from Zoisite in the first arc, rescuing them from the Black Moon in the second, and generally putting a performance as good or better than the Outers in the third, something she eventually call them out on-before going on what under the circumstances is a suicide mission just to prove she still has it.

* RenaissanceMan: Alluding to her many HiddenDepths as a GeniusDitz, Minako can play volleyball as one of the series' best athletes (and a magnificent athlete in general), sing and perform as an idol, speak fluent English, work as a manga artist, bring people together with her mere presence, work as a police woman that regularly outdoes the other cops, regularly lead the Sailor Soldiers into battle, come up with battle strategies, have strength far beyond what a person of her size and age should have, wield a sword effortlessly, and even use ofuda that don't belong to her.

* FallenPrincess: In the manga, while not much of an AlphaBitch, Minako was implied to be a rather popular athlete at her school; enough to rally up all of her classmates to visit a sick friend. Then, her work as Sailor V began, slowly taking up the time that she could be using to have a social life. Eventually, she loses all of her old friends, becoming a loner. She ends up finding [[TrueCompanions new ones]] in [[AllLovingHero Usagi]] and the {{Loner Turned Friend}}s that the inner soldiers are.
* {{Flanderization}}: In order to distinguish Minako from Usagi (who was actually an {{Expy}} of Minako from ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' in the manga), she was made more ditzy and less mature as the first anime went on (compare her introduction in the first season - where she was more the EveryGirl than anything with her only real "ditzy" aspect being she would get her proverbs mixed up - with how she was acting in the last), which is actually a reverse from the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], where she became more mature and intelligent as the series progressed.

* SerialRomeo: The last chapter of ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' shows Artemis sarcastically congratulating her for her ''5,000th first love'' (the main series of the manga abandoned the gag due how the last chapter ended).* ShellShockedVeteran: The manga version has shades of this, after being forced to kill [[spoiler:her true love]] in the ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' finale... [[StepfordSmiler And forcing herself to continue the mission with a smile on her face.]]

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* AdaptationalComicRelief: She's not without a sense of humor in the manga, but in TheNineties anime, she often acts outright goofy in her civilian life, with things like her malapropisms and boy-craziness serving as running gags.

* BubblyBlonde: Like Usagi, she is outgoing, friendly, and somewhat ditzy. They are both blonde.

* VigilanteMan: As Sailor V, she acts like a vigilante who takes the law into her own hands and has a hate-hate relationship with most cops. As Sailor Venus, though, she behaves more like and is treated as a tradition superhero.

* SerialRomeo: The last chapter of ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' shows Artemis sarcastically congratulating her for her ''5,000th first love'' (the main series of the manga abandoned the gag due how the last chapter ended).
* ShellShockedVeteran: The manga version has shades of this, after being forced to kill [[spoiler:her true love]] in the ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' finale... [[StepfordSmiler And forcing herself to continue the mission with a smile on her face.]]

* YouAreWhatYouHate: Minako has a vocal dislike for police officers, yet as Sailor V and Sailor Venus she acts like the ideal cop, right down to giving advice to people like Japanese cops are supposed to, and, in the anime, she collaborated with Scotland Yard. [[spoiler:And the ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' manga shows her actually becoming a part-time cop at the end of the series, meaning she's one during the ''Sailor Moon'' manga. It just never comes up.]]