History Characters / SailorMoonUsagiTsukino

** Averted, in ''[=PGSM=]'' in which it's learned that while Princess Serenity was once a kind and gentle soul, much like Usagi is in the present, Endymion's death shattered her and in her grief [[spoiler:she destroyed the Silver Millennium not Queen Metalia.]] After being reawakened in the modern time, her grief has festered and turned into a cold violent rage, that whenever she would forcibly take over Usagi, becoming Princess Sailor Moon, she would often leave flaming carnage behind her, not caring who would get hurt in her pursuit of Endymion. [[spoiler:In the end, when Usagi must kill a Metalia possessed Mamoru/Endymion to save the world, the action causes Serenity to awaken again, and horrified she destroys the Earth in her anger. It takes Usagi and Mamoru sacrifice of true love, to restore the Earth, but the love of their friends restores their lives, and their kindness touches Serenity's heart, allowing her to finally rest and move on from the past.]]

* SoLastSeason: Averted with her Moon Tiara, which she keeps using in later seasons even after getting more powerful wands for her FinishingMove.

* TheDitz: Usagi's ditzy personality is tied together with the rest of her character.

'''[[TropeCodifier The]]''' [[StockShoujoHeroine Shoujo heroine.]] '''''[[TropeCodifier The]]''''' MagicalGirlWarrior. [[WaxingLyrical Fights evil by moonlight. Wins love by daylight. Never runs from a real fight. She is the one named Sailor Moon.]]

* TheChosenZero: Luna selects Usagi Tsukino to be Sailor Moon, the first of the Sailor Guardians, largely because of Usagi's kindness to her in saving her from some little kids that were tormenting her. She then goes on to repeatedly lament her choice after getting to know Usagi and learning that she is [[BookDumb bad at her studies]], [[TheSlacker prone to goofing off]], [[TheKlutz incredibly clumsy]], [[TheDitz quite ditzy]], [[SleepyHead a chronic oversleeper]], [[CowardlyLion kind of cowardly]], [[ProneToTears and a massive crybaby]]. The rest of the Sailor Guardians are equally critical of Usagi's faults ([[{{Hypocrite}} in spite of sharing some of them themselves]]). Then they discover she's actually the reincarnation of Moon Princess Serenity, and the critique ''doubles'', as now they can lament about how she fails to live up to the grace, poise, and majesty of her past incarnation. [[ZigzaggingTrope The trope then zigzags]] in that she does legitimately mature over the course of the story, and she will canonically grow out of these faults to become a much-beloved god-queen.

* TheChosenZero: Luna selects Usagi Tsukino to be Sailor Moon, the first of Sailor Guardians, largely because of Usagi's kindness to her in saving her from some little kids that were tormenting her. She then goes on to repeatedly lament her choice after getting to know Usagi and learning that she is [[BookDumb bad at her studies]], [[TheSlacker prone to goofing off]], [[TheKlutz incredibly clumsy]], [[TheDitz quite ditzy]], [[SleepyHead a chronic oversleeper]], [[CowardlyLion kind of cowardly]], [[ProneToTears and a massive crybaby]]. The rest of the Sailor Guardians are equally critical of Usagi's faults ([[{{Hypocrite}} in spite of sharing some of them themselves]]). Then they discover she's actually the reincarnation of Moon Princess Serenity, and the critique ''doubles'', as now they can lament about how she fails to live up to the grace, poise and majesty of her past incarnation. [[ZigzaggingTrope The trope then zigzags]] in that she does legitimately mature over the course of the story, and she will canonically grow out of these faults to become a much-beloved god-queen.
** The [[Anime/SailorMoon 1990s]] AnimatedAdaptation seems to take a particular delight in rubbing Usagi's nose in how much of a disappointment she is compared to what even the Dark Kingdom expects of Sailor Moon and Princess Serenity's reincarnation. Kunzite's ploy to use a "Princess Seminar" to find Sailor Moon hinges on his observation that, outside of her tiara-throwing skills, Sailor Moon is a clumsy, graceless bungler (with Usagi's friends Rei and Minako both admitting it was a clever plan). Shortly afterwards, a monster mistakes ''Rei'' for Sailor Moon because she refuses to believe Sailor Moon could be as bad at skiing as Usagi is. And then after ''that'', Usagi expects to be an InstantExpert at ice-skating after hearing her past incarnation was a master of the sport, only to discover that she's absolutely ''terrible'' at it. And, for icing on the cake, her friend Makoto, who is ''also'' trying ice-skating for the first time, turns out to be a prodigy (a trait shared with ''her'' past incarnation) who simultaneously impresses an Olympic gold medal-winning skater and is mistaken for Sailor Moon, because once again the monster couldn't believe Sailor Moon would be as graceless as Usagi.

'''[[TropeCodifier The]]''' [[StockShoujoHeroine Shoujo heroine.]] '''''[[TropeCodifier The]]''''' MagicalGirlWarrior.

* TheChosenZero: Luna selects Usagi Tsukino to be Sailor Moon, the first of Sailor Guardians, largely because of Usagi's kindness to her in saving her from some little kids that were tormenting her. She then goes on to repeatedly lament her choice after getting to know Usagi and learning that she is [[BookDumb bad at her studies]], [[TheSlacker prone to goofing off]], [[TheKlutz incredibly clumsy]], [[TheDitz quite ditzy]], [[SleepyHead a chronic oversleeper]], [[CowardlyLion kind of cowardly]], [[ProneToTears and a massive crybaby]]. The rest of the Sailor Guardians are equally critical of Usagi's faults. Then they discover she's actually the reincarnation of Moon Princess Serenity, and the critique ''doubles'', as now they can lament about how she fails to live up to the grace, poise and majesty of her past incarnation. [[ZigzaggingTrope The trope then zigzags]] in that she does legitimately mature over the course of the story, and she will canonically grow out of these faults to become a much-beloved god-queen.

* FauxActionGirl: Perhaps due to her status as one of anime's most iconic characters, it is sometimes overlooked that Usagi's combat performance in season 1 of the original series is flat out abysmal. She needs to be rescued by Tuxedo Mask or her fellow sailor guardians in nearly every fight she gets into, sometimes on multiple occasions in the same episode. And it's not just due to her inexperience either, as this continues well over 20 episodes into the show.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While the Inner Guardians don't ''hate'' her, they are constantly annoyed with Usagi's laziness, clumsiness, whininess, incompetence, and refusal to take things seriously.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** When you're sentenced to StandingInTheHall as much as you're implied to have been, your grades ''will'' suffer. Didn't Haruna Sakurada point that out to you that time you got a 30 on your test?
*** Also, being the queen of a {{Utopia}} and the savior of the world doesn't help a whit if you're BookDumb and lazy; far in the future, Usagi ''still'' writes using hiragana (when most kids would be learning how to write kanji in ''elementary school'').
** Usagi's panicking in battle in the first episode is pretty much what would happen if you throw a teenage girl into life or death fights.
** Usagi, an 8th grade girl, is told that she is destined to be Sailor Moon. Given how she is only a middle schooler, [[IJustWantToBeNormal of course she isn't going to be either happy or cooperative with taking a major life role that involves major responsibility that easily]].

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KotonoMitsuishi (Japanese original[=/=]''Crystal''), Creator/KaeAraki (Japanese, eps. 44-50), Creator/TraceyMoore (eps 1-11, 15, 21), Creator/TerriHawkes (eps 12-14, 16-20, 22-89, and movies) ([=DiC=]), Creator/LindaBallantyne (Cloverway), Creator/StephanieSheh (Viz) (English) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]] Deok-hui Choi (Korean), Creator/PatriciaAcevedo (Latin American Spanish original[=/=]''Crystal''), Cecilia Santiago, Adelaida Lopez and Creator/MartaSainz (European Spanish), Creator/ElisabettaSpinelli (Italian), Creator/FedericaDeBortoli (Italian, R movie), Creator/LucreziaMarricchi (Italian, ''Crystal'' onwards), Sabine Bohlmann (German, Classic and ''Crystal''), Inez Günther (German, ''R'' - ''Stars'' and movies), Creator/MarliBortoletto (Brazilian Portuguese, Classic), Daniella Piquet (Brazilian Portuguese, ''R'' - ''Stars''), Fernanda Figueiredo (European Portuguese), Marlies Somers (Dutch), Annelie Berg (Swedish), Emmanuelle Pailly (French, Classic - ''S'', ''R'' movie), Creator/SylvieJacob (French, ''[=SuperS=]''), Isabelle Volpé (French, ''Stars'', ''S'' and ''[=SuperS=]'' movies), Anouck Hautbois (French, ''Crystal'' onwards), Aleksandra Kowalicka (Polish, movies, ''Make Up! Sailor Senshi'', ''Ami's First Love''), Creator/HadarShachafMaayan (Hebrew), Creator/AnisaDervishi (Albanian)[[/labelnote]]\\

Now has a Self-Demonstrating page you can view [[SelfDemonstrating/SailorMoonUsagiTsukino here]]

Now has a Self-Demonstrating page you can view [[ SelfDemonstrating/SailorMoonUsagiTsukino here]]

* MakeMeWannaShout: A less used secondary power, Sailor Moon can cry to the point where it becomes ultrasonic waves, [[GlassShatteringSound shattering glass]], [[SonicStunner stunning enemies]] and rendering weaker ones unconscious. Since her odango barrettes glow when she does this, its ambiguous whether the power is hers or a function of her jeweled odango covers.

** To Minako in the manga. Both are blonde, bubbly love addicts that aren't academically inclined. However, while Usagi's ditziness is, to some extent, genuine, Minako is actually a genius who quickly masters whatever she tries her hand at, and has a wide range of skills and accomplishments to her name that no other teenager would be able to claim. She simply cannot be bothered with schoolwork. While Usagi initially spends her first few days as a Guardian running from her enemies, Minako faces the enemies head-on. While Usagi refuses to let go of her love and her friends, Minako isn't as fortunate and is forced to kill her love interest and let her perfectly good social life waste away as she keeps working as a Sailor Guardian. For this reason, while Usagi's cheer and optimism are genuine, Minako is one hell of a HurtingHero who [[StepfordSmiler puts on a brave face]] out of refusal to show weakness. While Usagi cries and whines when she has problems, Minako just gets pissed, and resolves to come out on top. Usagi was born having all the power she needed as Sailor Moon, while Minako has to grind to become the unbelievably skilled warrior that she is.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: She was probably initially meant to be average-looking schoolgirl, but [[http://static.diary.ru/userdir/3/2/0/1/3201809/81424407.jpg here goes]].

* DependingOnTheWriter: She can be a powerful ActionGirl in some episodes, whereas in other episodes (particularly in season 1), she can be quite inept in battle, with her final blow on the enemy being her only useful superpower. The latter is less frequent in later seasons, but still occasionally pops up.

* TeensAreShort: While not exactly that small, she is the shortest of the Guardians at 4'11 (150cm). Her little brother Shingo even catches up to her in height in Season 3.

* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Usagi is a LoveFreak with very long GirlishPigtails, is ditzy, romantic, emotional, cries a lot, and is terrible at sports. She just has a few traits, like being a BigEater and liking comic books and video games, that make her less ladylike than her friend Naru early on in the series.

** She can be a ClingyJealousGirl toward Mamoru and hates when other women get close to him, but she is not always faithful herself from the way she stares at other boys. Apparently, only one of them needs to be 100% devoted. This is mostly in the first anime.
** In one episode, she slaps Mamoru over forgetting her birthday even though she never told him, but she doesn't know his birthday either.

* CuteButCacophonic: She and Chibi-Usa are able to scream loud enough to stun a monster — and Usagi has it as a weapon in the SNES fighting games. The game usage is probably a MythologyGag, referencing her first fight as Sailor Moon, in which Usagi actually manages to stun a youma and its mind-controlled horde of drained humans with her crying.

* TheChosenZero: She is assigned by Luna the Cat to be Sailor Moon, even though she is BookDumb, lazy, ditzy, clumsy, and slightly immature. That being said, Usagi does prove herself to be a useful Guardian in spite of her faults.

* {{Slapstick}}: The most frequent victim of this. Over the course of the anime, she's accidentally kicked a closed door, had her face scratched by Luna, had SeizaSquirm invoked on her, took countless volleyballs to the face, one of which knocked her tooth out.

* AsianAirhead: She's a Japanese schoolgirl who is BookDumb and lacks common sense.