History Fridge / SailorMoon

* Between the Inner Senshi in the 90s anime, Minako and Rei tends not to interact much. Her personality is similar to Usagi, who is usually butting heads with Rei. Being the more experienced Guardian, she tries not to get on Rei's bad side. When she they do interact, something ends up going wrong.
** Episode 37, Minako and Rei tries out with Usagi.
** Episode 64 Minako hangs out with Rei and bumps into Ami and Makoto. However, when Chibiusa disrupts the gravity of her surrounding area, Rei ends up inside Minako's skirt. Minako's not pleased.
** Episode 78 When Minako tends to Rei's cold, she fails miserably to cook a decent meal, cleaning up, and causes her boom box to blow up. To Rei's credit, she is much more tolerant with Minako then she is with Usagi.

* Speaking of tiaras, it is natural that Sailor Moon's first attack would involve throwing it. First, she has not accepted the fact that she is Princess Serenity reincarnated. Second, she realizes that it is simply a tool that a Princess can use when needed. The Moon Stick as well, which she used it once as a blunt tool to break open a piggy bank.
* As for Tuxedo Mask, not only is he good as Sailor Moon at throwing objects, he uses his signature rose to defend the one he loves. And what do roses symbolize?
* The few happy accidents where that Usagi tosses something (e.g her shoe or crumpled test sheet), it lands on Mamoru, the one true love she's looking for. No matter what she throws, it always on the mark.

* One the few happy accidents where that Usagi tosses her shoe, it lands on Mamoru, the one true love she's looking for.

* Rei is the daughter of an influential politician, likely a member of the Japanese Diet, and a member of its ruling party (the Democratic Liberal Party is a not so subtle reference to the Liberal Democratic Party that has ruled Japan almost completely since the 1950s). In almost any other story with the child, especially daughter, of such a political figure, the focus would likely be on that relationship and possibly being used as a figurine to draw in interest in the politician´s plans. But Rei is nearly completely detached from such pulls in Sailor Moon and gets the chance to focus almost entirely on her friendship with the other Senshi, her shrine, and her dreams and desires. Nice touch in terms of giving her that independence.

* Why are Usagi's cries are so [[CuteButCacophonic "ear-piercing"]] that they're considered a weapon? Well ever hear rabbits in real life when they're in distress or in their death throes? It's damn bloodcurdling.

* Usagi has less government experience than ''Sarah Palin'' in 2008 when she becomes Neo-Queen Serenity. And Usagi was a ''terrible'' student. Can't you just ''imagine'' her trying to respond to questions about foreign policy or what she thought about certain branches of scientific research?

** Note that that is anime only. In the manga Tin Nyanko is not in fact [[Spoiler: Sailor Mau]]. The manga Sailor Animates all sold themselves to Shadow Galatica and betrayed their original planets and killed said planet's Guardian Senshi in exchange for senshi power themselves. A different kind of FridgeHorror, you know...

* Zoycite's [[ShesAManInJapan gender swap]] in the [=DiC=] dub may come off as a poor puritan change to some today, but think about this instead: they portrayed Zoycite as a {{Transgender}} instead. When you think about it, [=DiC=] didn't truly censor Zoycite, they managed to keep the [=LGBT=] factor of Zoycite by simply using a different element of it.

* Crystal Tokyo is [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas an amazing city with crystal-like buildings]], especially the royal palace, itself the size of a small town... Built over Azabu-Juban. Considering Usagi isn't one to just kick people out of their homes to build hers over them (especially as said people would include her friends and family, with Rei's place being named as one of the places for the foundations of the palace) and that everything we know about the birth of Crystal Tokyo and Neo Queen Serenity's rise to power, what exactly destroyed a large part of Tokyo?

* Why are Uranus and Neptune so cold and distant and don't necessarily [[IWorkAlone work well]] with the other Guardians? Both planets are the furthest planets from the Sun, and thus are among the coldest.

* The [=CWi=] dub gave us a few:

* Both manga and anime establish [[{{Tomboy}} Minako]] as being the best of the Inner Senshi when it comes to cut and dress hair. [[RapunzelHair Her hair is very long]] and her mother isn't the kind of person willing to help taking care of it, so she had to learn how to do it herself. As for the others, Ami has very short hair that doesn't need much care, Makoto doesn't have that much hair and keeps a simple hairstyle, Rei is rich and can just go to the hairdresser whenever she wants, and Usagi can count on her mother's help.

*** She wasn't orginally one, Sailor Moon didn't exist in the Silver Millenium. The Silver Crystal Evolves into her Sailor Crystal and when it returns to normal after she becomes queen, she looses much of her senshi power, as Neo-Queen Serentiy herself states (But is still more powerful then Eternal Sailor moon as stated by Diana). The orginal Sailor Moon form was a disguise; all her powers come from the Crystal or magic items, while every other senshi has at least one attack they create themselves. Chibi-Moon is the same way, her Sailor Crystal also being an evolved form of the Silver Crystal. For moon it became the Silver Moon Crystal, for Chibi-Usa it turns into the Pink Moon Crystal.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' seems really bad in having plot points that are mind-numbingly obvious, like [[spoiler: Serena being the Moon Princess and Darien being Tuxedo Mask.]] It can be painful to watch - unless you realize that the characters don't have the advantage of being objective third-party observers like we are as viewers. How many times in RealLife do we ourselves not realize something that's actually right in front of us? That's where FridgeBrilliance ultimately comes from! That's right - ''Sailor Moon'' is an actual example of Fridge Brilliance in action! Usagi didn't realize that [[spoiler: Mamoru is Tuxedo Mask because Mamoru pisses her off, while Tuxedo Mask is her wonderful hero.]] Being a 14-year-old girl, she doesn't want to admit they can be the same guy; she hate hate hates [[spoiler: Mamoru]] until the Big Reveal. In the anime. [[Manga/SailorMoon the manga]], it becomes apparent much, much earlier. Given that they were [[spoiler: doomed lovers from a past life,]] though, some of that may be playing into the seemingly dumb. And in the [[Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon live-action]], given that [[spoiler: Princess Serenity destroyed the world when Endymion died, maybe she's keeping Usagi from Mamoru for that very reason,]] by not letting her figure things out until it's blindingly obvious. Then again, Usagi's a 14-year-old girl. They tend to be dense.

** It tries its hardest to skirt around the deaths of the Inner Senshi near the end of the Dark Kingdom arc, but their ghosts still come to Usagi's/Serena's aid in the finale--meaning that ''they really did die'', and either Usagi, Luna, or both are in denial over them not actually being "captured".