History SailorMoon / TropesTwo

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Unlike its deadly manga counterpart, Sailor Chibi Moon's "Pink Sugar Heart Attack" is a nuisance at best and often doesn't work at all in the anime. PlayedForLaughs. {{Justified}} because she's s Senshi In Training and doesn't come into real power until SuperS.

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Unlike its deadly manga counterpart, Sailor Chibi Moon's "Pink Sugar Heart Attack" is a nuisance at best and often doesn't work at all in the anime. PlayedForLaughs.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The MonsterOfTheWeek in season four's BeachEpisode attacks with various colored balls, [[CallingYourAttacks announcing the color in advance]]. When she gets to "gold", her face goes red and says she can't say it out loud; that's because ''kintama'' literally means "golden ball", but it also means, ahem, [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "family jewels"]].

* PrecisionFStrike: In the Season 4 episode where Fish Eye targets Mamoru, her servant Tobihaneru seems to say "YOU MOTHERF*CKER!" when Sailor Moon destroys him. In English dub, at least.

* TwoTimerDate: Minako in ''[=SuperS=]''. Although her boyfriends were really [=TigersEye=] and [=HawksEye=] competing over her dream mirror.

* SurpriseSantaEncounter: in the ''S'' movie.

* ShortRunInPeru: the last 17 ''R'' episodes aired in Canada long before they aired in the USA.

* SatelliteCharacter: The anime downgrades Mamoru to this by S because the series director from R-SuperS, Kunihiko Ikuhara, ''far'' preferred stories about lesbians (hence the extreme spotlight on Haruka and Michiru in Super...and his ''[[{{Utena}} other]]'' series.)

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Anime only -- [[spoiler:Nephrite, Saphir, Demand, the Amazon Trio, half of Sailor Tin Nyanko]].
* RedStringOfFate: in one episode of ''SMR'' Makaiju arc; also mentioned in episode 69.

** Played with especially in Super S when [[spoiler: [=HawksEye=] is killed by one of [=PallaPalla=]'s henchmen, and [=TigersEye=] and [=FishEye=] sacrifice themselves to save Usagi. As a result, Pegasus brings all three back to life AND gives them dream mirrors (though they all turn back into animals and leave earth). Also, the Amazones Quartet do a HeelFaceTurn and survive.]]

** Taken to great lengths in promotional material. Consider having to adapt and translate stuff from the later half of a series many hadn't officially seen yet, and making it mesh with earlier stuff already adapted a ''different'' way (certain names, certain premises). It's pretty telling that most of the ''merchandise'' for different adaptations [[RefugeInObscurity tends to be less censored and changed]] compared to the more mainstream show.

* NeverSayDie: the dub, which instead said "captured by the Negaverse". Though strangely, it did ''not'' dance around Neflyte's rather brutal on-screen death.

** It should be noted, however, that it was also averted in Sailor Moon R which was dubbed by the same company when Prince Diamond not only proclaims he'll avenge the deaths of Emerald and Sapphire, but the Doom Phantom admits his goal is to end all life on the planet. It's slightly averted when Amy warns Wicked Lady she won't survive the dark crystal's power passing through her but then 'destroyed' is used to describe the consequence.
*** Chalk it up to censorship becoming more lax over the years. The first 65 dub episodes were dubbed in 1995. The last 17 episodes of the second season (where the above example comes from) was dubbed in 1998 and the movies in 2000. Also technically speaking the movie and the entire tv series (sans Stars that was never dubbed in English) were dubbed by Optimum Productions. Only license handlers changed I.E DIC for Classic and R. Pioneer for the movies and Cloverway for S and SuperS.
*** It was actually very inconsistently dealt with. While the first season pretty much played it straight, even the later 1995 episodes occasionally averted it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEmP2V76wCM like so.]]
*** Though it was stated twice that Queen Beryl was "blasted back to the Negaverse" (which, by the way, was destroyed along with her when she was ''reduced to skin and bone and completely disintegrated''), Artemis does say in Episode 3 of Sailor Moon R that Beryl was "completely destroyed".

** Also played with in the fourth season. All the Quirky Miniboss Squad Members summon Female monsters ''except'' the only female member of the Amazon Trio, Fish Eye (a gay man) and the Biker Chick [=JunJun=], who summon male ones.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A number of villains do themselves in this way. Most notable would be Mimete (killed by her own machine), Tellu (killed by her own plant), Viluy (killed by her own nanites), and Cyprine/Ptilol (killed by shooting each other) of the Witches 5. Though Tellu technically pulled the plug on Mimete, it was still her own device that killed her.
** While technically it was Sailor Mars that altered the course of the planes that ran over Jadeite, it was his own magic that caused them to start moving on their own. She simply made HIM the new target.

* {{Flanderization}}: Minako, who in the anime goes from being more mature and experienced despite her occasional ditziness, to being arguably ''[[BeyondTheImpossible worse than Usagi]]'' in terms of ditziness, but in [[NurseWithGoodIntentions episode 78]], she explains that despite her clumsiness, she really does want to help people.

** Ami's extreme study habits become a running gag starting in season two, though they'd already been used for humor in the first series as well.

* FateWorseThanDeath[=/=]AndIMustScream: Jadeite from the first season - after getting ''run over by a plane'', he's trapped in "eternal sleep" inside a giant crystal. Mimemte from the third season may technically be alive inside the computer system, but with no way of ever getting out.
* FestivalEpisode: An episode of R takes place during T*A Academy's culture festival.

** And yet another one in SuperS, episode 146.

* FateWorseThanDeath[=/=]AndIMustScream: Jadeite from the first season - after getting ''run over by a plane'', he's trapped in "eternal sleep" inside a giant crystal. Mimete from the third season may technically be alive somewhere...

** Mimete was essentially deleted from existence.

* TheDragon: One. Every. Single. Season. The dragon of season 2 becomes a ''literal'' dragon.

*** The final three members of the Witches 5 all go out like this - Tellu gets killed fighting with her own plant the very next episode, Viluy gets essentially eaten alive by her own nano-machines in her ONLY episode, and Cyprine and Ptilol kill themselves in their only fight with the Senshi by being tricked into shooting each other. In comparison, Eudial and Mimete had several episode arcs to themselves before meeting their untimely deaths. The others had a great deal of build-up, but were surprisingly easy to kill.

* CuteShotaroBoy : Perle in the [=SuperS=] movie and Helios in the SuperS season, though both are probably quite a bit older.

* BrokenAesop: The dub-invented [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle "Sailor Says" PSAs]] would have these from time to time; a particular stand out example would be in the episode where Molly gets her energy sucked by Neflyte. The Sailor Says segment says that Molly was being true to her heart when she told Nefylte how she felt about him and treats this as a good thing and an important lesson...even though it put her in a coma. Naturally SailorMoonAbridged has fun with this.

* BerserkButton: It was established in the 13th episode that anyone who [[StayInTheKitchen makes sexist remarks]] within earshot of a sailor senshi is in for a world of hurt, as Jadeite learned the hard way when the then-{{Power Trio}} of the Sailor Senshi used [[CarFu Plane Fu]] on him for that offense.
** Nehellenia's berserk button is people giving her pity.

* AscendedExtra: In the manga, the roles of most villains were extremely small and they were often killed off without much ado. In the anime, their roles and characters were greatly expanded. The Sailor Starlights were also given a similar treatment.

* AdaptationExpansion: Being pretty much four times as long as the manga, the anime has plenty of time to detail the characters more.

* EvolvingMusic: The first four series all use "Moonlight Densetsu" ("Moonlight Legend") as the opening theme, but ''Classic'' and ''R'' use a version by DALI, while ''S'' and ''[=SuperS-]'' use a cover by Moon Lips. ''Stars'' used a different song entirely, "Sailor Star Song".