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-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/MasakoKatsuki (first anime), Creator/SayakaOhara (''Crystal'' onwards) (Japanese); Barbara Radecki (Cloverway), Creator/LaurenLanda (Viz) (English); Irma Carmona (Latin American Spanish, original/Crystal); Márcia Regina (Brazilian Portuguese); Olga Lima (European Portuguese)\\
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-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/MasakoKatsuki (first anime), Creator/SayakaOhara (''Crystal'' onwards) (Japanese); Barbara Radecki (Cloverway), Creator/LaurenLanda (Viz) (English); Creator/CheloVivares (European Spanish, original); Irma Carmona (Latin American Spanish, original/Crystal); Márcia Regina (Brazilian Portuguese); Olga Lima (European Portuguese)\\Portuguese), Creator/AlessandraKarpoff (Italian, ''S''), Creator/PatriziaScianca (Italian, ''Super S'' and ''Stars''), Giulia Franceschetti (''Crystal'' onwards) \\
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the manga she, along with all the other Solar System Senshi, [[spoiler:succumbs to Sailor Galaxia's mind control and relentlessly attacks Sailor Moon until she's disposed of]]. In the 90s anime, she and Sailor Uranus [[spoiler:resist the mind control – in fact, they deliberately [[FakeDefector feign defecting]] in order to gain the Galactica bracelets only to wait for the first opening and try to kill Galaxia [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with her own weapons]]. [[AllForNothing It doesn't work]], but even Galaxia herself is impressed by the strength of their willpower]].
* AdaptationalJerkass: The same as Haruka
* AdaptationalJerkass: The same as Haruka
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the manga she, along with all the other Solar System Senshi, Guardians, [[spoiler:succumbs to Sailor Galaxia's mind control and relentlessly attacks Sailor Moon until she's disposed of]]. In the 90s anime, she and Sailor Uranus [[spoiler:resist the mind control – in fact, they deliberately [[FakeDefector feign defecting]] in order to gain the Galactica bracelets only to wait for the first opening and try to kill Galaxia [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with her own weapons]]. [[AllForNothing It doesn't work]], but even Galaxia herself is impressed by the strength of their willpower]].
*AdaptationalJerkass: The same AdaptationalNiceGuy: Sailors Uranus and Neptune in ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' are nowhere near as Harukaantagonistic towards in the Inner Guardians like they were in the original anime despite remaining prideful overall. In the end of the Death Busters story arc, they outright attempt to kill Sailor Moon because they couldn't stand her idealism, forcing Sailor Moon to outsmart them before they admitted defeat. In ''Crystal'', no such thing happens, and they part ways from the Inners on peaceful terms.
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* BloodlessCarnage: In the episodes where the Talismans show up. Despite both Uranus and Neptune getting injured (the former shot by apparently invisible darts and the latter ripping herself free from some sort of thorny vines), neither bleeds.
* ButNotTooGay: The anime is, even in the Japanese version, very coy about Haruka and Michiru. While the main, straight couple of the series still only kisses infrequently, Haruka and Michiru ''never'' kiss. The manga does not have this problem. Though Haruka and Michiru still never kiss, Haruka ''does'' kiss Usagi.
* ControlFreak: Whenever Haruka and Michiru enter the season's plot, they act as if they know better than the other Guardians (even if they don't know very much about the enemy), make decisions without considering anyone else's input, as well as undermine Usagi and take away her choice in the situation. This is best exemplified in the ''S'' season when Haruka ''steals Usagi's transformation brooch'' so she can't interfere when they confront Eudial and in the ''Stars'' season when they order the Sailor Starlights (mainly Seiya) to stay away from Usagi and when they tell Usagi to stay away from them in return. With the latter, Usagi calls them out on deciding the situation themselves and sticking their noses in their business like that.
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* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Yes, even Michiru, the most feminine of the Sailor Guardians, qualifies as this. An elegant and sophisticated lady, she takes pride in her beauty, her interests include painting and playing the violin, Usagi compares her to a fairy tale princess, and she eventually assumes the role of mother to Hotaru. However, she's also a great swimmer, and at one point, she beats a group of Germatoid clones with her bare hands.
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* Grumpy Bear: In the anime. Like Haruka, she's somehow offended by the idea that love and friendship and justice can bring you a victory without a serious sacrifice. She's a milder version than Haruka due to her calm and refined demeanor, but she still counts.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDO: She and Haruka consistently fail to learn from their mistakes and are willing to sacrifice lives--both innocent civilians and their own fellow soldiers--on the basis that the end (destroying the enemy) automatically justifies the means. Given that in the realm of Sailor Moon, what consistently defeats the villains is the power of unconditional love and not ruthless strategy, their failure to adjust to her strategy (which actually WORKS) marks them out for the StupidSacrifice category. Also, see the end of Sailor Stars for a classic example of this trope dovetailing with NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Uranus and Neptune in the 90s anime refused to work with Sailor Moon and the Inner Guardians because they believed they were too idealistic for their own good and couldn't make pragmatic decisions. After the battle with Pharaoh 90, they scold Usagi for protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]] which almost led to the planet being destroyed and say she is unfit to be queen. However, Uranus and Neptune were rookie soldiers without the experience of fighting various enemies Sailor Moon and her guardians had (judging by the information and flashbacks from the anime, they were active for ''roughly'' a year, with the Death Busters as their only threat to investigate). Examples of their behavior include:
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Uranus and Neptune in the 90s anime refused to work with Sailor Moon and the Inner Guardians because they believed they were too idealistic for their own good and couldn't make pragmatic decisions. After the battle with Pharaoh 90, they scold Usagi for protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]] which almost led to the planet being destroyed and say she is unfit to be queen. However, Uranus and Neptune were rookie soldiers without the experience of fighting various enemies Sailor Moon and her guardians had (judging by the information and flashbacks from the anime, they were active for ''roughly'' a year, with the Death Busters as their only threat to investigate). Examples of their behavior include:
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* IDidWhatIHadToDO: She and Haruka consistently fail to learn from their mistakes and are willing to sacrifice lives--both innocent civilians and their own fellow soldiers--on the basis that the end (destroying the enemy) automatically justifies the means. Given that in the realm of Sailor Moon, what consistently defeats the villains is the power of unconditional love and not ruthless strategy, But their failure ControlFreak tendencies and habit of acting as if their decisions are superior to adjust to her strategy (which actually WORKS) the others' marks them out for the StupidSacrifice category. Also, see the end of Sailor Stars for a classic example of this trope dovetailing with NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Uranus and Neptune in the 90s anime refused to work with Sailor Moon and the Inner Guardians because they believed they were too idealistic for their own good and couldn't make pragmatic decisions. After the battle with Pharaoh 90, theyscold lecture Usagi for protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]] which almost led to the planet being destroyed planet's destruction and say she is she's unfit to be queen. However, Uranus and Neptune were rookie soldiers without the experience of fighting various enemies Sailor Moon and her guardians had (judging by the information and flashbacks from the anime, they were active for ''roughly'' a year, with the Death Busters as their only threat to investigate). Examples of their behavior include:
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Uranus and Neptune in the 90s anime refused to work with Sailor Moon and the Inner Guardians because they believed they were too idealistic for their own good and couldn't make pragmatic decisions. After the battle with Pharaoh 90, they
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** After Eudial calls them to let them know she has found a Talisman, Haruka and Michiru call Usagi to meet them, tell her they won't let her slow them down with her "half-baked play war" and even [[WhatAnIdiot take away her brooch]]... with the [[FantasticNuke Silver Crystal]] inside. What Haruka and Michiru both failed to realize was that their plan for finding the Talismans had been rather half-baked. In spite of the time they spent investigating them, they were just piggybacking off the ''enemy's'' efforts: they just sat around and waited for the Death Busters to strike, remove a victim's Pure Heart, then check to see if it was a Talisman. At no point did they try to find them themselves. Eudial had to ''call and tell them'' that she found a Talisman. And at no point did they think she could have been leading them into a trap. They just [[LeeroyJenkins rushed to meet Eudial without coming up with a plan]] other than collecting a Talisman for their mission.
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** After Eudial calls them to let them know she has found a Talisman, Haruka and Michiru call Usagi to meet them, tell her they won't let her slow them down with her "half-baked play war" and even [[WhatAnIdiot take away steal her brooch]]...brooch... with the [[FantasticNuke Silver Crystal]] inside. What However, Haruka and Michiru both failed to don't realize was that their plan for finding the Talismans had been rather half-baked. In spite of the time they spent investigating them, they were just piggybacking off the ''enemy's'' efforts: they just sat around and waited for the Death Busters to strike, remove a victim's Pure Heart, then check to see if it was a Talisman. At no point did they try to find them themselves. Eudial had to ''call and tell them'' that she found a Talisman. And at no point did they think she could have been leading them into a trap. They just [[LeeroyJenkins rushed to meet Eudial without coming up with a plan]] other than collecting a Talisman for their mission.
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* IncestSubtext: The Cloverway dub creates an interesting [[InvertedTrope inversion]] with Haruka and Michiru. The romantic subtext is ''meant'' to be there... but they're not supposed to be cousins in the original. The company that decided to make them cousins did so for the exact reason of preventing there being any openly gay people in the show, without actually changing enough other stuff to even try and hide how they feel for each other, just hoping no one would think it's odd for two cousins to be THAT devoted to each other.
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* IncestSubtext: The Cloverway dub creates an interesting [[InvertedTrope inversion]] {{Inver|tedTrope}}sion with Haruka and Michiru. The romantic subtext is ''meant'' to be there... but they're not supposed to be cousins in the original. The company that decided to make them cousins did so for the exact reason of preventing there being any openly gay people in the show, without actually changing enough other stuff to even try and hide how they feel for each other, just hoping no one would think it's odd for two cousins to be THAT devoted to each other.
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* InformedAttribute: Is thought to be more pragmatic than the Inner Soldiers, yet her decisions say otherwise. See IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance above for more details.
* JerkassFacade: Michiru in the original manga only acted like a jerk to protect the Inners from what she viewed as a failure in her duty, and she was in fact a person with a HiddenHeartOfGold. She's capable of great kindness but hides it with her aloofness and a sharp tongue.
* KarmaHoudini: In the 90s anime. Despite to their refusal to learn from their mistakes and being IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance, Hikaru and Machiru are never really punished in any way that sticks or called out by the other characters who, in addition to always willing to forgive them, constantly praise how "cool" and "mature" they are compared to the Inners.
* JerkassFacade: Michiru in the original manga only acted like a jerk to protect the Inners from what she viewed as a failure in her duty, and she was in fact a person with a HiddenHeartOfGold. She's capable of great kindness but hides it with her aloofness and a sharp tongue.
* KarmaHoudini: In the 90s anime. Despite to their refusal to learn from their mistakes and being IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance, Hikaru and Machiru are never really punished in any way that sticks or called out by the other characters who, in addition to always willing to forgive them, constantly praise how "cool" and "mature" they are compared to the Inners.
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* InformedAttribute: InformedAttribute:
** Is thought to be more pragmatic than the Inner Soldiers, yet her decisions say otherwise. See IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance above for more details.
** Uranus and Neptune are stated to dread the idea of sacrificing innocents for the sake of their mission, but this doubted due to the fact that they never bother to search for other options, acting as if killing is the ''only'' thing they can do about the situation that they don't know very much about, and react angrily to the ''suggestion'' that they look for another way, even though they should be jumping at any opportunity to learn alternative methods if they really wanted to avoid sacrificing innocents.
*JerkassFacade: IntertwinedFingers: Haruka and Michiru do this quite a few times throughout the series. Most notably during the "I like your hands" scene, on the morning that they [[spoiler:go to the Marine Cathedral expecting to have to [[TheseHandsHaveKilled kill an innocent person]]]] and again [[spoiler:while they're dying/fading out of existence at the end of Stars]].
* {{Irony}}: At the conclusion of the battle against Pharaoh 90, Haruka and Michiru state that Usagi's way of handling it makes her unfit to be the Queen of the Future Silver Millennium, and yet it is heavily implied that Neo-Queen Serenity herself [[TheChessmaster was the one to set things in motion]] when she told Chibi-Usa to train in theoriginal manga only acted like a jerk past and befriend an "important person" who would later turn out to protect be [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]], thereby leading to the Inners from what she viewed events of the season to play out the way they did with no one being sacrificed as a failure Hotaru's bond with Chibi-Usa was an important factor in her duty, overpowering Mistress 9, awakening as Sailor Saturn, and she was in fact a person destroying Pharaoh 90 with Super Sailor Moon once and for all.
* ISurrenderSuckers: In the fifth Season, Sailors Uranus and Neptune pretended to do aHiddenHeartOfGold. She's capable of great kindness but hides it with FaceHeelTurn, submitting to Galaxia's will and even ''killing'' Saturn and Pluto, and then, when the going got good and they did enough damage, made an attempt on her life. Subverted in that Galaxia is seemingly immortal, and both Uranus and Neptune are instantly destroyed upon the revelation of her immortality.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Her aloofness anda sharp tongue.
* KarmaHoudini: In the 90s anime. Despite to their refusal to learn from their mistakes and being IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance, Hikaru and Machiru are never really punished in any way that sticks or called out by the other characters who, in addition to always willing to forgive them, constantly praise how "cool" and "mature" they are compared to the Inners.tongue make Michiru come off as an uncaring jerk. However, like Haruka, she does care deeply for all life.
** Is thought to be more pragmatic than the Inner Soldiers, yet her decisions say otherwise. See IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance above for more details.
** Uranus and Neptune are stated to dread the idea of sacrificing innocents for the sake of their mission, but this doubted due to the fact that they never bother to search for other options, acting as if killing is the ''only'' thing they can do about the situation that they don't know very much about, and react angrily to the ''suggestion'' that they look for another way, even though they should be jumping at any opportunity to learn alternative methods if they really wanted to avoid sacrificing innocents.
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* {{Irony}}: At the conclusion of the battle against Pharaoh 90, Haruka and Michiru state that Usagi's way of handling it makes her unfit to be the Queen of the Future Silver Millennium, and yet it is heavily implied that Neo-Queen Serenity herself [[TheChessmaster was the one to set things in motion]] when she told Chibi-Usa to train in the
* ISurrenderSuckers: In the fifth Season, Sailors Uranus and Neptune pretended to do a
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Her aloofness and
* KarmaHoudini: In the 90s anime. Despite to their refusal to learn from their mistakes and being IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance, Hikaru and Machiru are never really punished in any way that sticks or called out by the other characters who, in addition to always willing to forgive them, constantly praise how "cool" and "mature" they are compared to the Inners.
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* LightningBruiser: Not to the extent of Uranus but in the Nehelenia arc, the entire team of 10 is split up into abnormal groupings by the villain, splitting up Uranus and Neptune. The former, paired up with Mercury, notes she never noticed how well Neptune had managed to keep pace with her high running speed until now, having been paired with someone who can't.
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* LightningBruiser: Not to the extent of Uranus but in the Nehelenia arc, the entire team of 10 is split up into abnormal groupings by the villain, splitting up Uranus and Neptune. The former, paired up with Mercury, notes she never noticed how well Neptune had managed to keep pace with her high running speed until now, having been paired with someone who can't.
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* MoralityPet: '''Always''' to Haruka
* MsFanservice: Swims a LOT. Which means we get to see her in swimsuits a LOT.
* MsFanservice: Swims a LOT. Which means we get to see her in swimsuits a LOT.
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* MsFanservice: Swims a
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* NecessarilyEvil: Haruka and Michiru only act hard and ruthless because they think it's necessary to save the world. They [[CharacterDevelopment get]] better in the manga though. Not so much in the anime though, as seen toward the end of ''Stars'' where they KILL Saturn and Pluto out of necessity.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: She and Haruka were really enraged over Sailor Moon not seeing that saving the entire world is more important than the life of one person, although Usagi did manage to find away without sacrificing Hotaru.
* NeverMyFault: Michiru and Haruka solely blame Usagi for the way the conflict with Pharaoh 90 ended due to her protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]], even though their aloof behavior, hasty decision making, and inability to cooperate and share meaningful communication contributed to the outcome of the battle just as much as Usagi's actions did.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: She and Haruka were really enraged over Sailor Moon not seeing that saving the entire world is more important than the life of one person, although Usagi did manage to find away without sacrificing Hotaru.
* NeverMyFault: Michiru and Haruka solely blame Usagi for the way the conflict with Pharaoh 90 ended due to her protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]], even though their aloof behavior, hasty decision making, and inability to cooperate and share meaningful communication contributed to the outcome of the battle just as much as Usagi's actions did.
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* MyWayOrTheHighway: Also crosses with ControlFreak. She and Uranus believe that their methods are better and disregard those who don't think the same way as them.
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* NecessarilyEvil: Haruka and Michiru only act hard and ruthless because they think it's necessary to save the world. They [[CharacterDevelopment get]] better in the manga though. Not so much in the 90s anime though, as seen toward the end of ''Stars'' where theyKILL kill Saturn and Pluto out of necessity.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: She and Haruka werereally enraged over frustrated with Sailor Moon not seeing that saving the entire world Earth is more important than the life of one person, although Usagi did manage to find away a way without sacrificing Hotaru.
* NeverMyFault: At the conclusion of ''S'', Michiru and Harukasolely blame Usagi for the way the conflict with Pharaoh 90 ended due to her protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]], even though never acknowledge that it's their aloof behavior, hasty decision making, decision-making, refusal to think of another plan, and inability to cooperate and share meaningful communication problems that contributed to the outcome of the battle just with Pharaoh 90 ''just'' as much as Usagi's actions did.did, if not more so.
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* NecessarilyEvil: Haruka and Michiru only act hard and ruthless because they think it's necessary to save the world. They [[CharacterDevelopment get]] better in the manga though. Not so much in the 90s anime though, as seen toward the end of ''Stars'' where they
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: She and Haruka were
* NeverMyFault: At the conclusion of ''S'', Michiru and Haruka
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Neptune and Uranus's stubborn refusal to open any kind of discussion with the other Guardians about what's going on during the Infinity arc approaches the absurd. Even after it becomes clear that Moon and her team are not going to stay out of it no matter what Neptune and Uranus say, the pair keep everything they know entirely to themselves, forcing the Inners to fumble around blindly in their own investigation covering ground that Neptune and Uranus have already covered and repeatedly coming into danger as their efforts draw the attention of the Death Busters.
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* PastelChalkedFreezeFrame: Haruka and Michiru's scenes are done this way more often than not, when ''not'' in any form of battle, in order to emphasize how elegant they are.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Neptune andUranus's Uranus' stubborn refusal to open any kind of discussion with the other Guardians about what's going on during the Infinity arc approaches the absurd. Even after it becomes clear that Moon and her team are not going to stay out of it no matter what Neptune and Uranus say, the pair keep everything they know entirely to themselves, forcing the Inners to fumble around blindly in their own investigation covering ground that Neptune and Uranus have already covered and repeatedly coming into danger as their efforts draw the attention of the Death Busters.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Neptune and
* SourSupporter: In the anime, like Haruka, she's somehow offended by the idea that love and friendship and justice can bring you a victory without a serious sacrifice. She's a milder version than Haruka due to her calm and refined demeanor, but she still counts.
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* TookALevelInKindness: At the start, Haruka and Michiru both refuse to work with the other Sailor Guardians, look down on them like fools, and refuse to trust anyone but each other. They also think that Usagi is unqualified to be the queen and that Hotaru has to be killed to stop the silence. Once they accept the truth and see things beyond their old views, they become more open and caring and are just as loyal to Usagi as the Inners. In the anime, they remain somewhat harsh, critical, and arrogant, but they're still clearly on Usagi's side.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Downplayed. At the start, Haruka and Michiru both refuse to work with the other Sailor Guardians, look down on them like fools, and refuse to trust anyone but each other. They also think thought that Usagi is unqualified to be the queen and that sparing Hotaru has to be killed to stop the silence.was foolish and idealistic. Once they accept the truth and see things beyond their old views, they become more open and caring and are just as loyal to Usagi as the Inners. In However, once they return in the anime, ''Stars'' season, they remain somewhat harsh, critical, and arrogant, but they're still clearly on Usagi's side.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Haruka and Michiru are set on the idea that the younger Sailor Guardians are just too idealistic to deal with threats as well as they do, despite the fact that it's common knowledge that Sailor Moon's team have been fighting and defeating all kinds of evil threats long before Uranus and Neptune appeared. Either Uranus and Neptune paid no attention to what's been going on or they think the Inners just got lucky too often.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Haruka and Michiru are set on the idea that the younger (younger by only one year) Sailor Guardians are just too idealistic to deal with threats as well as they do, despite the fact that it's common knowledge that Sailor Moon's team have been fighting and defeating all kinds of evil threats long before Uranus and Neptune appeared. Either Uranus and Neptune paid no attention to what's been going on or they think the Inners just got lucky too often.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: With their refusal to cooperate with the other guardians (who have more experience than them) and their belief that only they have the moral strength to make hard choices, she and Haruka tend to make WrongGenreSavvy decisions that make things worse, like their FakeDefector scheme in the GrandFinale where they end up sacrificing Setsuna and Hotaru for nothing.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: With their refusal to cooperate with the other guardians (who have more experience than them) and their belief that only they have the moral strength to make hard choices, she and Haruka Michiru tend to make WrongGenreSavvy decisions that make try and take control of the situation as if they know better which often makes things worse, like their FakeDefector scheme in the GrandFinale where they end up sacrificing Setsuna and Hotaru for nothing.
* WaterIsBlue: Sailor Neptune's uniform is bluish-green with a navy-blue bow, fitting her powers of the sea.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: See {{Anti Hero}}ine above. This is mellowed a bit by working with the inner soldiers, but Uranus and Neptune still occasionally resort to more extreme tactics. [[spoiler:Of course, this being an [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism idealistic]] series, they are usually proven wrong about said tactics being [[SlidingScaleofUnavoidableVersusUnforgivable necessary]].]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Along with Haruka, Michiru chastises Usagi for her idealism and protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]] (or rather, her body, which had already been taken over by Mistress 9), which almost doomed the whole world.
* WhatTheHellHero: Along with Haruka, Michiru chastises Usagi for her idealism and protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]] (or rather, her body, which had already been taken over by Mistress 9), which almost doomed the whole world.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: See {{Anti Hero}}ine above. This is mellowed a bit by working with the inner soldiers, but Uranus and Neptune still occasionally resort to more extreme tactics. [[spoiler:Of Of course, this being an [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism idealistic]] series, they are usually proven wrong about said tactics being [[SlidingScaleofUnavoidableVersusUnforgivable necessary]].]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Along with Haruka, Michiru chastises Usagi for her idealism and protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]] (or rather, her body, which had already been taken over by Mistress 9), which almost doomed the whole world.necessary.
* WhatTheHellHero: Along with Haruka, Michiru chastises Usagi for her idealism and protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]] (or rather, her body, which had already been taken over by Mistress 9), which almost doomed the whole world.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: From the way she and Haruka are utterly convinced that victory requires sacrifice, their tactics in battle, and their claim that Usagi's ideals are childish, they act like they're living in a war drama, not a MagicalGirl series.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Uranus and Neptune try to kill 12-year-old Hotaru while her body is inhabited by Mistress 9, though Usagi defends her. Near the end of the series, they steal her Star Seed to keep up their deception against Galaxia.
* WrongGenreSavvy:From the way she and Haruka and Michiru are utterly convinced that victory requires sacrifice, their tactics in battle, and their claim that Usagi's ideals are childish, they act like they're the {{Pragmatic Hero}}es of a dark urban fantasy where victory without sacrifice is impossible. They're really living in a war drama, not a MagicalGirl series.series that runs on ThePowerOfFriendship, [[IdealHero Usagi]] is the protagonist, and since they won't consider other options or accept help from anyone else, they're not nearly as pragmatic as they think they are.
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* NonIdleRich: She is, quite possibly, the richest character in the series. She plays a Stradivarius, flies her own helicopter, and lives in a luxurious flat. Though nothing is revealed about her family, she's implied to be an heiress to a massive fortune. Still, she's not above doing humble jobs like teaching grade school, and she likes earning her own money with her art and music. [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob And that's not when she's fighting evil superbeings.]]
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!!Michiru Kaioh/Michelle -- Sailor Neptune
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-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/MasakoKatsuki (first anime), Creator/SayakaOhara (''Crystal'' onwards) (Japanese); Barbara Radecki (Cloverway), Creator/LaurenLanda (Viz) (English); Irma Carmona (Latin American Spanish, original/Crystal); Márcia Regina (Brazilian Portuguese); Olga Lima (European Portuguese)\\
'''Portrayed in the musicals by''': Kaoru Ukawa, Chikage Tomita, Miyuki Sena (Miyuki Fuji), Yūko Harada (Yūko Tahara), Sara Shimada, Yūka Asami, Tomoko Inami, Takayo Ohyama, Sayaka Fujioka\\\
''"Likewise, Sailor Neptune acts with grace!"''
Uranus' classically refined girlfriend, a talented violinist and swimmer. Her poise and elegance coupled with her surprisingly friendly demeanor make her an immediate inspiration to the Guardians. Despite her graceful manners, she's no less merciful than her girlfriend towards those who get in her way.
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* TheAce: To perhaps a greater extent than Haruka, as she's considered to be the feminine ideal: sophisticated, cool, and artistically talented. She's wealthy enough to own a Stradivarius and attend an elite academy, has great artistic talent in many areas, athletic in civilian and guardian form, and is leagues more powerful than the inner soldiers. In the manga, Usagi, Ami, Rei, and Makoto frustrate Minako (the original ace) by gushing about how awesome Haruka and Michiru are. She's witty enough to fluster the normally suave Haruka, and intelligent enough to manipulate Seiya into letting his guard down by charming him.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the manga she, along with all the other Solar System Senshi, [[spoiler:succumbs to Sailor Galaxia's mind control and relentlessly attacks Sailor Moon until she's disposed of]]. In the 90s anime, she and Sailor Uranus [[spoiler:resist the mind control – in fact, they deliberately [[FakeDefector feign defecting]] in order to gain the Galactica bracelets only to wait for the first opening and try to kill Galaxia [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with her own weapons]]. [[AllForNothing It doesn't work]], but even Galaxia herself is impressed by the strength of their willpower]].
* AdaptationalJerkass: The same as Haruka
* AdoptivePeerParent: Is "Michiru-Mama" to young Hotaru after she's been orphaned, co-parenting with Haruka and Setsuna.
* AloofAlly: With Uranus towards the inner soldiers in that they are too idealistic and refuse to use lethal force.
* AlphaBitch: She is introduced as one in the manga, but this is just a front. She's more of a normal {{Ojou}} with small shades of LovableAlphaBitch.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: In one of the ‘’[=SuperS=]'' specials, an enemy is stealing Haruka’s life energy and bluffs Michiru into choosing between saving Haruka and saving the world. Michiru calls his bluff and saves her, stating that to her, a world without Haruka isn't worth saving.
* AmateurSleuth: When not fighting, she and Haruka often investigate suspicious activity rather than getting caught up in it like so many other characters. For example, they enrolled in Mugen Academy to get to the bottom of the strange things happening there.
* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Like Haruka's parents, hers are never even mentioned. Obviously, their parents must have existed at some point for them to be reborn, but that's all we know.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Michiru is openly gay and in a relationship with Haruka, but is known to flirt with men, particularly Mamoru.
* AmbiguouslyChristian: She and Haruka both qualify. They're searching for the Messiah, and Uranus even sports a cross at times. There is certainly a lot of Catholic imagery in the ''S'' season. Michiru telling the story of Adam and Eve and referring to them as the first man and woman drives the point home.
* AnimalMotifs: The '90s anime gave her an affinity towards fish to further emphasize her connection to the ocean. She's grateful when Haruka wins her a goldfish at a festival, and she loves aquariums and spending her free time watching fish.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance. Sea green eyes, check. Sea green hair that has a slight wave to resemble ocean waves, check. If it wasn't obvious enough she's a water user.
* BadassBookworm: An established violinist, whose swimming ability is just as remarkable, and it becomes a surprise that Ami is able to keep up with her during a race. Also, during her fight with [[spoiler:Sailor Moon]], she easily restrains her, and the Sailor Stars opener shows that Michiru is quite capable of getting physical.
* BadassTeacher: Besides being a powerful warrior, the first anime series shows her working as an art teacher. She also teaches cooking in ''Parallel Sailor Moon''.
* {{Ballet}}: Someone as wealthy and graceful as she is must've had a lot of training in her youth, and her footwear as Sailor Neptune bears a striking resemblance to pointe shoes.
* BarelyChangedDubName: Goes from Michiru in the Japanese version to Michelle in the original English dub. It's even closer than it looks because the L sound becomes an R sound in Japanese.
* BattleCouple: With Uranus. They usually arrive together and attack enemies in tandem.
* TheBeautifulElite: She's fabulously rich, is very charming and sophisticated, and looks like a cross between a supermodel and a princess. Her house, her clothes, and pretty much all of her other possessions are luxurious and beautiful.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The beauty to Setsuna's brains and Haruka's brawn.
* BerserkButton: In the manga: She's usually calm and levelheaded, but do ''not'' tell her that her shade of lipstick is trashy or she may try to kill you.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Michiru is usually one of the calmer and quieter Sailor Guardians. The few times she loses her cool, however, she becomes absolutely murderous, and on one occasion she had to be kept from killing Yaten for hitting a previously unknown BerserkButton of hers--namely ''[[DisproportionateRetribution criticizing her choice of lipstick and stealing her spot as the school's make-up expert]]''. Fittingly, she's Hotaru's adopted mother.
* BreakTheBadass: She and Haruka pretend to defect to Galaxia to gain her trust, but doing so they kill Pluto and Saturn by removing their Star Seeds. Then, when it turns out that Galaxia doesn't have one to remove, they break down and realize it was all for mothing.
* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Neptune Planet Power, Make up!", "Neptune Crystal Power, Make up!"
* CarFu: She and Haruka make their badassery known on a motorcycle in their debut episode (as themselves, at least).
* CelebrityMasquerade: An internationally acclaimed violinist. Having played in major venues around the globe, she is definitely a celebrity. She also is Sailor Neptune, the princess from planet Neptune and fights the evil Death Busters, protecting the Earth and her future Queen, Serenity.
* ChastityCouple: Haruka and Michiru are girlfriends, but there's nothing too explicit about their relationship. In fact, the only onscreen kiss Haruka has is with Usagi, not Michiru.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: She collects cosmetics. Granted, someone like her would make good use of them, but it's odd that she's mainly interested in them as collectibles.
* TheComicallySerious: Sometimes.
* ConflictBall: Sailors Neptune and Uranus clutch it tightly more often than not, especially in their introductory arc.
** In the Infinity arc of the manga/''Crystal'' they spend nearly half the arc stubbornly refusing to tell Sailor Moon and her team ''anything'' about who they are or what's going on. Their reasoning is eventually explained as "we feel that this is our responsibility to handle as Outer Guardians and we don't want to risk you being hurt by getting involved" - never mind that they had previously ''attacked'' Sailor Moon rather than explain this, and that the lack of communication placed her and her team in greater danger by inspiring them to investigate on their own without knowing what they're up against.
** The S arc of the '90s anime depicts them as actively antagonistic to Sailor Moon and the Inner Guardians, despite the fact that by this point Usagi and her team have saved the world no less than three times.
* CoolBigSis: To the Inners. She is regarded as the feminine ideal.
* CoolTeacher: Teaches art (in the anime) or cooking (in ''Parallel Sailor Moon''). Having someone as rich, famous, and beautiful as her as a teacher would make any student wish they were in her class.
* CulturedBadass: A fine classical violinist and painter who kicks plenty of evil ass.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Aqua eyes, aqua hair, even has an oceanic trend.
* CustomUniform: She and Haruka have short gloves instead of elbow-length ones.
* DeadpanSnarker: She ''loves'' making sarcastic, thinly veiled comments behind a graceful smile about others [[TheGadfly all the time]].
* DependingOnTheWriter: Depending on the episode in the ''S'' season, she can be more contemplative or merciful than Sailor Uranus, or just as extremist and rude like her.
* DidYouThinkICantFeel: In the earlier days of their relationship before they became a couple, Michiru did not appreciate Haruka's patronizing attitude about what she's capable of. This was after Haruka saw a portrait Michiru created of the end of the world, with Haruka snarking she didn't think a privileged rich girl like her could possibly understand a concept as bleak as the apocalypse. Michiru makes it clear Haruka had no clue what she was talking about.
* TheDividual: With Uranus; They were created as a pair, never get solos in the Sera Myu, instead getting duets, and the scenes they have solo can be counted on one hand. The 90's anime forcibly separates them for a single episode, instead pairing her with Mars.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Dislikes kikurage mushrooms.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: When Haruka and Michiru's visions of the Silence come, you can't blame them for being terrified, but they believe that the Silence is something that must never be allowed to happen, ''ever'', and that they have to kill Hotaru to stop it. They don't realize that Sailor Saturn and her powers exist for a reason: the old must be destroyed so that the new can be created, and when things go too far, sometimes it's better to just RestartTheWorld.
* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: All we really know about her backstory is that she got the memory of her past life and awoke as Sailor Neptune from dreams she had. This makes her the only Sailor Guardian who awoke without someone else's help.
* DubPersonalityChange: Like several other characters, the original English dub flanderized her and Haruka, making them even meaner and harsher than the original anime.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Possibly in episode 44 of the first season. When we see how Mamoru and the girls were reincarnated, several other people from the Silver Millennium (presumably other members of the princess' court) are shown to have come with them. The only one shown as more than a silhouette is an extra Sailor Guardian who looks a lot like Michiru. The episode's animation director Hisashi Kagawa [[WordOfGod eventually revealed on Twitter in 2019 that it was a coincidence]], since he didn't know yet that Michiru would even exist in the series, and that he inserted the character just because he expected it more Sailor Guardians to show up later. Fans still accept that it's Michiru, though.
* ElegantClassicalMusician: A very elegant young lady, and a professional violinist who also plays the piano.
* ElementalHairColors: Her blue-green hair indicates her power over [[MakingASplash the sea]].
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: While she doesn't have quite the universal lady-appeal of Haruka, both Ami and Rei (among others) think she's beautiful.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's a gleefully unrepentant troll, albeit an elegant one, but there are some things Michiru won't joke about.
** When Usagi is upset because she thinks Mamoru forgot her birthday (he didn't, he just didn't know when it was because Usagi never told him), Michiru sounds truly disappointed in him, and is none too pleased when Haruka jokingly flirts with Usagi. Michiru might screw with Haruka sometimes by flirting with others, but she draws the line at teasing someone who's emotionally vulnerable at the moment.
** After the guardians become trapped in a dimensional warp created in the Tomoe household, Haruka says it would be better if they didn't come back. Michiru is seriously offended by such a notion.
* FakeDefector: In the final episodes.
* TheFashionista: The classiest and prettiest dresser of the Sailor Guardians. Her sense of fashion and skills at applying makeup are commented on by the others more than once, and Usagi sees her as what a fairy tale princess would be like.
* FingerSuckHealing: Done when Haruka gets her hand injured with a glass shard [[spoiler: from Nehellenia's MagicMirror.]] Michiru then sucks on her injury to try getting the shard out and succeeds, then spits it out on her handkerchief. [[spoiler: Then Haruka notices dark energy coming from the shard and knocks it away from Michiru; it transforms into a glass monster, and they have to fight it alongside others.]]
* FriendlyRivalry: With Ami. They get along well for two girls who are also rivals in swimming races. In fact, the only time a swimming match gets between them is when Michiru calls Ami out over letting her win.
* TheGadfly: Michiru just loves to innocently screw with people by making veiled comments hiding behind an innocent smile. She goes around making comments for the sake of screwing with people and watching their reactions when they finally get what she's ''really'' saying. For example, when she's paired up with Rei in the first ''Stars'' arc of the anime, she nonchalantly comments about her relationship with Usagi:
-->'''Michiru''': You two are close, huh? Quite similar to Uranus and me.
** An earlier moment comes in ''S'' when Makoto asks about Haruka being able to drive. Haruka stammers that she got a license overseas, and Michiru just mentions "So she says."
** Throughout ''Stars'' she loves to tease Haruka about her rivalry with Seiya, even telling the girls that Haruka doesn't hate men, she just hates ''popular'' men (implying she hates Seiya because he's more successful with girls).
* GirlyBruiser: Michiru is very feminine, collected, cultured, and soft-spoken. She likes to wear long, flowing dresses and is interested in classical music, painting, and reading. She's also a balance of LadyOfBlackMagic and LadyOfWar with her water-based attacks and Stradivarius, and the [=90s=] anime show her inflicting a ''brutal'' beating on Germatoid clones with her bare hands.
* GirlyRun: Clearly seen when running from Usagi in Season 3, Episode 6 of ''Crystal''.
* GoGetterGirl: She seems to have a need excel at everything she does, from her artistic endeavors to her refined demeanor, from her swimming matches to all of her classes at school.
* GoodCounterpart: The notes in Naoko's materials collection describe her as being "like Esmeraude became calm."
* GoodIsNotNice: In the 90s anime, Haruka and Michiru are very cynical, trying to kill Hotaru in an attempt to stop Saturn from ending the world. Even after Usagi manages to both save Hotaru and the universe, they still are aloof. In the ''Stars'' arc, both act as [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent Double Reverse Quadruple Agents]] for Galaxia, even killing Saturn and Pluto to prove their loyalty. However, they are also WrongGenreSavvy and end up dying themselves. They have good intentions, but also believe that the ends justify the means and thus do not hesitate to resort to violence or trickery. They are are much nicer in the manga.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Though Neptune is undoubtedly on the side of good, she is the most ruthless of the Sailor Guardians, and the most willing to ShootTheDog if she feels that there is no alternative. She was at her most brutal when she was working solo; Uranus is the one holding back the worst of Neptune's impulses.
* GrumpyBear: In the anime. Like Haruka, she's somehow offended by the idea that love and friendship and justice can bring you a victory without a serious sacrifice. She's a milder version than Haruka due to her calm and refined demeanor, but she still counts.
* GuileHero: She'll sometimes use her wits and charms to manipulate others to get what she wants. One time, she used this technique on Seiya when she and Haruka still thought the Starlights couldn't be trusted.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Same deal with Sailor Uranus. In one scene in the old English dub when the girls are talking about first kisses, Michelle reminisces about having her first kiss with "Brad, the cutest boy at school." Then she and Amara exchange meaningful looks and hastily exit the scene.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: She and Haruka are usually living their own adventure while the protagonists are in Tokyo. In the anime they even leave after the third season specifically to do this.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: With Haruka.
* HoneyTrap: This is one of her tricks when she's not as Sailor Neptune. In one episode, she briefly flirts with Seiya to investigate the Starlights.
* IDidWhatIHadToDO: She and Haruka consistently fail to learn from their mistakes and are willing to sacrifice lives--both innocent civilians and their own fellow soldiers--on the basis that the end (destroying the enemy) automatically justifies the means. Given that in the realm of Sailor Moon, what consistently defeats the villains is the power of unconditional love and not ruthless strategy, their failure to adjust to her strategy (which actually WORKS) marks them out for the StupidSacrifice category. Also, see the end of Sailor Stars for a classic example of this trope dovetailing with NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Uranus and Neptune in the 90s anime refused to work with Sailor Moon and the Inner Guardians because they believed they were too idealistic for their own good and couldn't make pragmatic decisions. After the battle with Pharaoh 90, they scold Usagi for protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]] which almost led to the planet being destroyed and say she is unfit to be queen. However, Uranus and Neptune were rookie soldiers without the experience of fighting various enemies Sailor Moon and her guardians had (judging by the information and flashbacks from the anime, they were active for ''roughly'' a year, with the Death Busters as their only threat to investigate). Examples of their behavior include:
** If Uranus and Neptune were as pragmatic as they believed they were, they would've teamed up with the more seasoned girls who had among them a national genius girl with a handheld supercomputer that's suggested to be more advanced than modern day appliances (Ami), a psychic girl who could've figured out who held the Talismans by divining through the Sacred Fire (Rei), and a girl with a legendary crystal that has the capacity to heal/destroy an entire planet, purge evil from a person or place, and bring the dead back to life (Usagi). Granted, Uranus and Neptune might not have ''known'' about their previous missions to know they're capable, but since Sailor Moon and the Inners started picking up notoriety after they awakened (to the point of having little dolls made in their image and kindergarteners knowing about them in ''R'') and Pluto let them know that Chibi-Usa was the Princess of the Future Silver Millennium, it's hard to believe that they ''wouldn't'' have heard of their exploits through the news or word of mouth, or that Pluto wouldn't have told Uranus and Neptune about them herself.
** After Eudial calls them to let them know she has found a Talisman, Haruka and Michiru call Usagi to meet them, tell her they won't let her slow them down with her "half-baked play war" and even [[WhatAnIdiot take away her brooch]]... with the [[FantasticNuke Silver Crystal]] inside. What Haruka and Michiru both failed to realize was that their plan for finding the Talismans had been rather half-baked. In spite of the time they spent investigating them, they were just piggybacking off the ''enemy's'' efforts: they just sat around and waited for the Death Busters to strike, remove a victim's Pure Heart, then check to see if it was a Talisman. At no point did they try to find them themselves. Eudial had to ''call and tell them'' that she found a Talisman. And at no point did they think she could have been leading them into a trap. They just [[LeeroyJenkins rushed to meet Eudial without coming up with a plan]] other than collecting a Talisman for their mission.
** Regarding Hotaru, they were hell-bent on killing her because she was the reincarnation of Sailor Saturn and they believed she would destroy the world when she awakened, yet they were unaware of her true purpose (to destroy the world ''only'' when things were at their lowest point so everything could be reborn anew) and would've killed an innocent girl and valuable comrade had they succeeded.
** Finally, if Uranus and Neptune had teamed up with the girls and shared what they knew about the Death Busters (admittedly, something Neptune ''had'' suggested to Uranus who refused her), the issue would've been resolved quicker with ''far'' less conflict, but instead they were aloof and condescending towards them and even hindered them on several occasions. Even Tuxedo Mask said that while the Outer Guardians are strong, Sailor Moon is stronger because she has teammates.
** In short, while Uranus and Neptune were smug and condescending towards Sailor Moon and the Inners for their beliefs, it was ''their'' aloof behavior, hasty decision making, and inability to cooperate and share meaningful communication that often led them to make things worse and cause unnecessary conflict.
* IHaveTheHighGround: She and Haruka are fond of this.
* ImmuneToBullets: Eudial's death trap triggers bullets that fly from every direction. Neptune gets hit with every single one, until the guns are out of ammo. ''She survives'', if only for a few moments, and it takes a blast from Eudial herself to finish her off [[spoiler:and rip out her Pure Heart Crystal.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Some of her attacks use a mirror or a violin.
* IncestSubtext: The Cloverway dub creates an interesting [[InvertedTrope inversion]] with Haruka and Michiru. The romantic subtext is ''meant'' to be there... but they're not supposed to be cousins in the original. The company that decided to make them cousins did so for the exact reason of preventing there being any openly gay people in the show, without actually changing enough other stuff to even try and hide how they feel for each other, just hoping no one would think it's odd for two cousins to be THAT devoted to each other.
* IneffectualLoner: She and Haruka have a consistently condescending view of many of the other characters, despite being surprisingly useless when combating actual [[TheDragon Dragons]] or {{Big Bad}}s.
* InformedAttribute: Is thought to be more pragmatic than the Inner Soldiers, yet her decisions say otherwise. See IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance above for more details.
* JerkassFacade: Michiru in the original manga only acted like a jerk to protect the Inners from what she viewed as a failure in her duty, and she was in fact a person with a HiddenHeartOfGold. She's capable of great kindness but hides it with her aloofness and a sharp tongue.
* KarmaHoudini: In the 90s anime. Despite to their refusal to learn from their mistakes and being IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance, Hikaru and Machiru are never really punished in any way that sticks or called out by the other characters who, in addition to always willing to forgive them, constantly praise how "cool" and "mature" they are compared to the Inners.
* LadyAndAScholar: She's clearly intelligent, studies art and music extensively but enjoys all of her classes at school, gets into a prestigious school easily, [[ProperLady and is widely regarded by her peers as the classic ideal feminine woman]].
* LadyOfBlackMagic: Refined and classy, she uses water-based attacks and a MagicMirror that can dispel illusions and teleport people.
* LadyOfWar: She's an elegant, refined young lady who will defeat enemies by whatever means possible. She even uses a ''violin'' to blast enemies to oblivion. The femme counterpart to Uranus' butch.
* LapPillow: Haruka rests her head in Michiru's lap in [[http://www.moonkitty.net/wallpapers/widescreen/imac_Sailormoon05.jpg this]] manga spread.
* LightningBruiser: Not to the extent of Uranus but in the Nehelenia arc, the entire team of 10 is split up into abnormal groupings by the villain, splitting up Uranus and Neptune. The former, paired up with Mercury, notes she never noticed how well Neptune had managed to keep pace with her high running speed until now, having been paired with someone who can't.
* LipstickLesbian: The elegant, lady-like girlfriend of the more [[ButchLesbian masculine]] Uranus.
* LonelyRichKid: She was rich and privileged before meeting Haruka (as indicated by the fact that she owns a Stradivarius, a private helicopter, and a posh-looking condo) but is implied to have mostly kept to herself before they met.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Subverted. She and Haruka make Galaxia think they'll defect to her as long as they can be together, but it's part of a plan to overthrow her. It doesn't work.
* MagicMirror: The Deep Aqua Mirror. It acts as a weapon, can dispel illusions, allows communication over great distances, and can even teleport people.
* MakingASplash: A powerful user of water. Her powers are stated to be from the sea rather than just regular water.
* MartyrWithoutACause: Like Uranus, Neptune strongly believes that victory is impossible without some horrible angsty sacrifice that only they have the moral strength to make.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Michiru is a refined, violin-playing LipstickLesbian while her girlfriend Haruka is a short-haired, athletic, sword-wielding ButchLesbian.
* MeaningfulName:
** Kaioh [[SpellMyNameWithAnS as in]] Kaiōsei, the Japanese name for Neptune meaning "sea king star".
** Her given name means "rising".
* MermaidArcEmergence: The first time we see Michiru she is swimming in her apartment and [[SexySurfacingShot climbs out of the pool]] while throwing her head back in this fashion.
* MirrorCharacter: To Yaten. Both are artistic and fashionable girly girls, are vain, snarky, and try to keep their tomboyish leaders in check. Michiru sees Yaten as a rival when she dethrones her as the school's fashion queen.
* MoralityPet: '''Always''' to Haruka
* MsFanservice: Swims a LOT. Which means we get to see her in swimsuits a LOT.
* MusicalAssassin: With a ''Stradivarius''!
* MysteriousPast: The only thing we know of her past is that she's the only Sailor Guardian who got her powers and Awoke without external help (she simply dreamed of her past life), and even that comes from WordOfGod. Everything else, is completely unknown.
* NecessarilyEvil: Haruka and Michiru only act hard and ruthless because they think it's necessary to save the world. They [[CharacterDevelopment get]] better in the manga though. Not so much in the anime though, as seen toward the end of ''Stars'' where they KILL Saturn and Pluto out of necessity.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: She and Haruka were really enraged over Sailor Moon not seeing that saving the entire world is more important than the life of one person, although Usagi did manage to find away without sacrificing Hotaru.
* NeverMyFault: Michiru and Haruka solely blame Usagi for the way the conflict with Pharaoh 90 ended due to her protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]], even though their aloof behavior, hasty decision making, and inability to cooperate and share meaningful communication contributed to the outcome of the battle just as much as Usagi's actions did.
* NiceGirl: In the manga, she [[TookALevelInKindness becomes this]] by the final arc. She no longer looks down on her fellow Sailor Guardians, though she still struggles opening up to and trusting people, and is genuinely a kind, genial woman who even takes Hotaru in as her daughter. [[BerserkButton Just don't insult her choice of makeup.]] While she and Haruka lighten up in all versions, they still tend act more like jerks late in the '90s anime.
* NonIdleRich: She is, quite possibly, the richest character in the series. She plays a Stradivarius, flies her own helicopter, and lives in a luxurious flat. Though nothing is revealed about her family, she's implied to be an heiress to a massive fortune. Still, she's not above doing humble jobs like teaching grade school, and she likes earning her own money with her art and music. [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob And that's not when she's fighting evil superbeings.]]
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Neptune gets hit with every single bullet from Eudial's death trap and somehow survives.
* NotYourProblem: Haruka and Michiru constantly tell the Inners to back off and leave everything to them. The Inners, [[JumpedAtTheCall being who they are]], never listen.
* {{Ojou}}: It's never stated who her parents are but she's clearly wealthy, as she owns a Stradivarius violin and a gigantic condo with its own aquarium and is a world-famous violinist and painter.
* OneTrueLove: She and Haruka are in a long-lasting relationship and are rarely seen apart from each other.
* OppositesAttract: With Haruka. She is a cultured and elegant lady, Haruka is a sporty tomboy.
* OutOfFocus: In [=SuperS=], hers and Haruka's only appearance is in one of the specials, although they return to full-time characters in ''Stars''.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Basically ''every single thing'' that has come out of Michiru Kaioh's mouth is this. If Usagi is going to be the queen of the moon, Michiru is definitely queen of the trolls.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Neptune and Uranus's stubborn refusal to open any kind of discussion with the other Guardians about what's going on during the Infinity arc approaches the absurd. Even after it becomes clear that Moon and her team are not going to stay out of it no matter what Neptune and Uranus say, the pair keep everything they know entirely to themselves, forcing the Inners to fumble around blindly in their own investigation covering ground that Neptune and Uranus have already covered and repeatedly coming into danger as their efforts draw the attention of the Death Busters.
* PragmaticHero: How she and Haruka see themselves. [[InformedAttribute They really aren't.]] Sure, they're willing to make hard decisions and sacrifices that the Inners are against, but that's far as they go. If they were as pragmatic as they thought, they'd try to get more help, especially from the more experienced and successful Inners, or at least try something else to complete their mission when Plan A fails.
* PrincessClassic: Subverted. She lacks the innocence of a typical Princess Classic, but she's probably the closest thing to one on the Sailor Team in present day.
* ProperLady: A mature, high-born, sophisticated, refined, elegant woman who plays the violin.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Haruka's Red. While both had the same intentions in season 3, Michiru's demeanor was calm and introverted in comparison to Haruka's more outgoing and harsh attitude.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the Cloverway dub, she and Haruka were infamously stated to be cousins to HideYourLesbians. But the dub didn't edit out their flirting scenes, so not only did they look like lesbians, but also incestuous ones. The dubbers apparently thought they could make their affection look familial instead of romantic.
* RenaissanceMan: Aside from being one of the better fighters on the team, she aces all her classes in school, is an accomplished concert violinist and gifted painter, a decent amateur sleuth, a master manipulator, up on high fashion, can fly a helicopter, has the certification to work as a teacher, cooks for her household, seems to know a bit about child healthcare and marine life, and is a champion-level competitive swimmer.
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: She and Haruka have shades of this. They seem to be independently wealthy, with nobody suspecting that they're Sailor Guardians.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: She was right that Hotaru was a threat to Earth, but it wasn't for the fact she was Sailor Saturn rather because she was the vessel for Mistress 9.
* SatelliteCharacter:
** Especially in the manga. Most of her characterization is based around her relationship with Haruka. Even though the two are rarely separated, Haruka gets much more focus and character development. Naoko Takeuchi wrote Michiru this way on purpose because Michiru is the Sailor Guardian the least like her and the hardest for her to relate to. She wanted Haruka to have a complimentary but opposite partner, and Michiru was what came of that.
** This is carried over into both anime adaptations; while she's definitely a little more fleshed out, the writers don't develop her much beyond being Haruka's girlfriend who is a famous artist and musician. Even the episode that shows how they met is told entirely from Haruka's perspective.
* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: In Episode 97 of the first anime she's offended when Ami intentionally throws a swimming race as she wouldn't have minded losing against someone who was giving it her all vs. a win being handed to her.
* SexySurfacingShot: The first time we see Michiru she is swimming in her apartment and climbs out of the pool in a swimsuit while [[MermaidArcEmergence throwing her head back]].
* ShipperOnDeck: In the '90s anime, it's implied that she ships [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple Usagi/Rei]]. After seeing their arguments, she comments that their relationship is just like her and Haruka. Rei is not amused.
* ShipTease: Michiru may be half of an official couple with Haruka, but she is also a real flirt with both men and women. At one point, she flirts with Mamoru (the same episode ship-teases their girlfriends together), and in a later episode, with Seiya ([[HoneyTrap though that was mainly because she wanted to see if the Starlights could be trusted]]), as well as a few one-shot characters. Of course, [[TheGadfly knowing how much she loves to screw with people]], it's hard to tell when she's seriously flirting or not.
* ShootYourMate: During their deception of Sailor Galaxia, she and Haruka are forced to remove Pluto and Saturn's Star Seeds to keep up the charade.
* SilkHidingSteel: While considerably more feminine and graceful than Haruka, it's obvious that Michiru has a will of pure steel. It's strongly hinted that she's the one with the reins in their relationship, and she could have Haruka wrapped around her finger if she wanted to.
* SmugSmiler: She and Haruka do this from time to time.
* SmugSuper: Along with Haruka. In their civilian guises, they seem friendly enough but their arrogance comes out when they transform.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: After Haruka and Michiru are introduced, they take the focus away from Ami, Rei, Makoto and Minako, who are little more than Usagi's support during the Infinity arc, although the four get back in the spotlight during the Dream arc.
* StalkerWithACrush: It is heavily implied in episode 106 that Michiru was one of these to Haruka going way back before she even knew that Haruka was destined to become Sailor Uranus.
* StockSuperheroDayJobs: Schoolteacher. Despite being only sixteen, she is shown working as an art teacher in the anime or a cooking teacher in ''Parallel Sailor Moon''. She and Haruka are also independently wealthy celebrities, so they also fit the [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob rich socialite]] category.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She is very calm, cool and collected, as well as extremely dedicated to her mission...but she can also be very gentle to those she loves (if in a very princess-like way, befitting an {{Ojou}} like her), particularly her girlfriend, Haruka.
* SurroundedByIdiots: How she feels during the Infinity Arc. She thinks that the younger Guardians are too naïve and idealistic to see what's really at stake or take the right action, and the only one who agrees with her is a partner whom she worries about going out of control.
* TakingTheBullet: In the backstory episode of Uranus and Neptune in the 90's anime, she leaps in front of a monster about to attack Haruka, causing herself to be heavily injured.
* TeamChef: When the Outers adopt Hotaru, Michiru does all the cooking for their household. In ''Parallel Sailor Moon'', she actually gave up her chance at fame to become a cooking teacher, suggesting that she's very good at it.
* TheTease: Michiru likes getting a rise out of people and flirting. She's also been shown to intentionally get her girlfriend Haruka jealous.
* TookALevelInKindness: At the start, Haruka and Michiru both refuse to work with the other Sailor Guardians, look down on them like fools, and refuse to trust anyone but each other. They also think that Usagi is unqualified to be the queen and that Hotaru has to be killed to stop the silence. Once they accept the truth and see things beyond their old views, they become more open and caring and are just as loyal to Usagi as the Inners. In the anime, they remain somewhat harsh, critical, and arrogant, but they're still clearly on Usagi's side.
* TownGirls: The Femme to Setsuna's Neither and Haruka's Butch.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Sashimi.
* {{Troll}}: In contrast to her elegant demeanor she's a huge one. She's not malicious or evil, but the moment she says "Ara" expect the conversation to be full of innuendo and oh-so-innocent snarking.
* TrueBlueFemininity: She's color-coded with turquoise and blue, and the LipstickLesbian to contrast with Sailor Uranus' butch. Not to mention that her hair is blue too. (Well, more of a sea green, but close enough)
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Haruka and Michiru are set on the idea that the younger Sailor Guardians are just too idealistic to deal with threats as well as they do, despite the fact that it's common knowledge that Sailor Moon's team have been fighting and defeating all kinds of evil threats long before Uranus and Neptune appeared. Either Uranus and Neptune paid no attention to what's been going on or they think the Inners just got lucky too often.
* UndyingLoyalty: Obviously to Usagi/Princess Serenity, as is the case with all other Sailor Guardians, but more notably, to Haruka. She survived a barrage of bullets to reach Sailor Uranus and protect her from Eudial. She'll even casually risk the world being destroyed so long as Haruka is safe with her, which even surprises the villain attacking Haruka.
-->'''Sailor Neptune''': There seems to be a misunderstanding... The world is only worth protecting if Haruka is living in it.
* UnskilledButStrong: While Uranus and Neptune have some skill, they don't have the experience Sailor Moon and the Inner Guardians have (and are implied to have awoken as Soldiers a few months after the Black Moon Clan's final attack/before the Death Busters struck when they received visions of the world being destroyed by The Silence), yet their magical attacks are stronger than the Inners to better suit their responsibilities of keeping outside threats from attacking Earth.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: With their refusal to cooperate with the other guardians (who have more experience than them) and their belief that only they have the moral strength to make hard choices, she and Haruka tend to make WrongGenreSavvy decisions that make things worse, like their FakeDefector scheme in the GrandFinale where they end up sacrificing Setsuna and Hotaru for nothing.
* VanityIsFeminine: She's the most feminine of the group and takes pride in her appearance. It's appropriate that she gets a mirror as a weapon.
* VerbalTic: "Ara" in the 90s anime.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: The whole deal with Eudial was triggered when she first [[TakingTheBullet took a hit for Haruka]] [[BadassInDistress and got captured]]... and upon seeing Haruka coming to rescue her and fight Eudial, releasing herself and trying to stop her.
* WaifFu: In the anime. While as tall as Makoto and only a few months older, she's much slimmer... And then, when confronted by a horde of Germatoid clones, she proceeded to maul them with her bare hands before being overwhelmed by sheer numbers. The only foreshadowing we had were [[WalkingSwimsuitScene the many times she has been swimming]] (thus developing muscles) and her instinctively assuming a [[WrestlerInAllOfUs Pankration stance]] when she sees their numbers.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Swims so much it kind of comes with the territory.
* WaterIsWomanly: A very sophisticated young lady, conducting herself gracefully and being a classical violinist and painter. She has wavy sea green hair resembling waves. And as Sailor Neptune, she has powers over water that come from the sea.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: See {{Anti Hero}}ine above. This is mellowed a bit by working with the inner soldiers, but Uranus and Neptune still occasionally resort to more extreme tactics. [[spoiler:Of course, this being an [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism idealistic]] series, they are usually proven wrong about said tactics being [[SlidingScaleofUnavoidableVersusUnforgivable necessary]].]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Along with Haruka, Michiru chastises Usagi for her idealism and protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]] (or rather, her body, which had already been taken over by Mistress 9), which almost doomed the whole world.
* WiseBeyondHerYears: Despite being only 16 when first introduced, Michiru is easily the most mature and refined of the guardians.
* WrongGenreSavvy: From the way she and Haruka are utterly convinced that victory requires sacrifice, their tactics in battle, and their claim that Usagi's ideals are childish, they act like they're living in a war drama, not a MagicalGirl series.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Although mainly an {{Ojou}}, but she also shows strong vibes of this in her devotion to her girlfriend Haruka and their Outer Guardians' mission.
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!!Michiru Kaioh/Michelle -- Sailor Neptune
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-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/MasakoKatsuki (first anime), Creator/SayakaOhara (''Crystal'' onwards) (Japanese); Barbara Radecki (Cloverway), Creator/LaurenLanda (Viz) (English); Irma Carmona (Latin American Spanish, original/Crystal); Márcia Regina (Brazilian Portuguese); Olga Lima (European Portuguese)\\
'''Portrayed in the musicals by''': Kaoru Ukawa, Chikage Tomita, Miyuki Sena (Miyuki Fuji), Yūko Harada (Yūko Tahara), Sara Shimada, Yūka Asami, Tomoko Inami, Takayo Ohyama, Sayaka Fujioka\\\
''"Likewise, Sailor Neptune acts with grace!"''
Uranus' classically refined girlfriend, a talented violinist and swimmer. Her poise and elegance coupled with her surprisingly friendly demeanor make her an immediate inspiration to the Guardians. Despite her graceful manners, she's no less merciful than her girlfriend towards those who get in her way.
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* TheAce: To perhaps a greater extent than Haruka, as she's considered to be the feminine ideal: sophisticated, cool, and artistically talented. She's wealthy enough to own a Stradivarius and attend an elite academy, has great artistic talent in many areas, athletic in civilian and guardian form, and is leagues more powerful than the inner soldiers. In the manga, Usagi, Ami, Rei, and Makoto frustrate Minako (the original ace) by gushing about how awesome Haruka and Michiru are. She's witty enough to fluster the normally suave Haruka, and intelligent enough to manipulate Seiya into letting his guard down by charming him.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the manga she, along with all the other Solar System Senshi, [[spoiler:succumbs to Sailor Galaxia's mind control and relentlessly attacks Sailor Moon until she's disposed of]]. In the 90s anime, she and Sailor Uranus [[spoiler:resist the mind control – in fact, they deliberately [[FakeDefector feign defecting]] in order to gain the Galactica bracelets only to wait for the first opening and try to kill Galaxia [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with her own weapons]]. [[AllForNothing It doesn't work]], but even Galaxia herself is impressed by the strength of their willpower]].
* AdaptationalJerkass: The same as Haruka
* AdoptivePeerParent: Is "Michiru-Mama" to young Hotaru after she's been orphaned, co-parenting with Haruka and Setsuna.
* AloofAlly: With Uranus towards the inner soldiers in that they are too idealistic and refuse to use lethal force.
* AlphaBitch: She is introduced as one in the manga, but this is just a front. She's more of a normal {{Ojou}} with small shades of LovableAlphaBitch.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: In one of the ‘’[=SuperS=]'' specials, an enemy is stealing Haruka’s life energy and bluffs Michiru into choosing between saving Haruka and saving the world. Michiru calls his bluff and saves her, stating that to her, a world without Haruka isn't worth saving.
* AmateurSleuth: When not fighting, she and Haruka often investigate suspicious activity rather than getting caught up in it like so many other characters. For example, they enrolled in Mugen Academy to get to the bottom of the strange things happening there.
* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Like Haruka's parents, hers are never even mentioned. Obviously, their parents must have existed at some point for them to be reborn, but that's all we know.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Michiru is openly gay and in a relationship with Haruka, but is known to flirt with men, particularly Mamoru.
* AmbiguouslyChristian: She and Haruka both qualify. They're searching for the Messiah, and Uranus even sports a cross at times. There is certainly a lot of Catholic imagery in the ''S'' season. Michiru telling the story of Adam and Eve and referring to them as the first man and woman drives the point home.
* AnimalMotifs: The '90s anime gave her an affinity towards fish to further emphasize her connection to the ocean. She's grateful when Haruka wins her a goldfish at a festival, and she loves aquariums and spending her free time watching fish.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance. Sea green eyes, check. Sea green hair that has a slight wave to resemble ocean waves, check. If it wasn't obvious enough she's a water user.
* BadassBookworm: An established violinist, whose swimming ability is just as remarkable, and it becomes a surprise that Ami is able to keep up with her during a race. Also, during her fight with [[spoiler:Sailor Moon]], she easily restrains her, and the Sailor Stars opener shows that Michiru is quite capable of getting physical.
* BadassTeacher: Besides being a powerful warrior, the first anime series shows her working as an art teacher. She also teaches cooking in ''Parallel Sailor Moon''.
* {{Ballet}}: Someone as wealthy and graceful as she is must've had a lot of training in her youth, and her footwear as Sailor Neptune bears a striking resemblance to pointe shoes.
* BarelyChangedDubName: Goes from Michiru in the Japanese version to Michelle in the original English dub. It's even closer than it looks because the L sound becomes an R sound in Japanese.
* BattleCouple: With Uranus. They usually arrive together and attack enemies in tandem.
* TheBeautifulElite: She's fabulously rich, is very charming and sophisticated, and looks like a cross between a supermodel and a princess. Her house, her clothes, and pretty much all of her other possessions are luxurious and beautiful.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The beauty to Setsuna's brains and Haruka's brawn.
* BerserkButton: In the manga: She's usually calm and levelheaded, but do ''not'' tell her that her shade of lipstick is trashy or she may try to kill you.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Michiru is usually one of the calmer and quieter Sailor Guardians. The few times she loses her cool, however, she becomes absolutely murderous, and on one occasion she had to be kept from killing Yaten for hitting a previously unknown BerserkButton of hers--namely ''[[DisproportionateRetribution criticizing her choice of lipstick and stealing her spot as the school's make-up expert]]''. Fittingly, she's Hotaru's adopted mother.
* BreakTheBadass: She and Haruka pretend to defect to Galaxia to gain her trust, but doing so they kill Pluto and Saturn by removing their Star Seeds. Then, when it turns out that Galaxia doesn't have one to remove, they break down and realize it was all for mothing.
* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Neptune Planet Power, Make up!", "Neptune Crystal Power, Make up!"
* CarFu: She and Haruka make their badassery known on a motorcycle in their debut episode (as themselves, at least).
* CelebrityMasquerade: An internationally acclaimed violinist. Having played in major venues around the globe, she is definitely a celebrity. She also is Sailor Neptune, the princess from planet Neptune and fights the evil Death Busters, protecting the Earth and her future Queen, Serenity.
* ChastityCouple: Haruka and Michiru are girlfriends, but there's nothing too explicit about their relationship. In fact, the only onscreen kiss Haruka has is with Usagi, not Michiru.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: She collects cosmetics. Granted, someone like her would make good use of them, but it's odd that she's mainly interested in them as collectibles.
* TheComicallySerious: Sometimes.
* ConflictBall: Sailors Neptune and Uranus clutch it tightly more often than not, especially in their introductory arc.
** In the Infinity arc of the manga/''Crystal'' they spend nearly half the arc stubbornly refusing to tell Sailor Moon and her team ''anything'' about who they are or what's going on. Their reasoning is eventually explained as "we feel that this is our responsibility to handle as Outer Guardians and we don't want to risk you being hurt by getting involved" - never mind that they had previously ''attacked'' Sailor Moon rather than explain this, and that the lack of communication placed her and her team in greater danger by inspiring them to investigate on their own without knowing what they're up against.
** The S arc of the '90s anime depicts them as actively antagonistic to Sailor Moon and the Inner Guardians, despite the fact that by this point Usagi and her team have saved the world no less than three times.
* CoolBigSis: To the Inners. She is regarded as the feminine ideal.
* CoolTeacher: Teaches art (in the anime) or cooking (in ''Parallel Sailor Moon''). Having someone as rich, famous, and beautiful as her as a teacher would make any student wish they were in her class.
* CulturedBadass: A fine classical violinist and painter who kicks plenty of evil ass.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Aqua eyes, aqua hair, even has an oceanic trend.
* CustomUniform: She and Haruka have short gloves instead of elbow-length ones.
* DeadpanSnarker: She ''loves'' making sarcastic, thinly veiled comments behind a graceful smile about others [[TheGadfly all the time]].
* DependingOnTheWriter: Depending on the episode in the ''S'' season, she can be more contemplative or merciful than Sailor Uranus, or just as extremist and rude like her.
* DidYouThinkICantFeel: In the earlier days of their relationship before they became a couple, Michiru did not appreciate Haruka's patronizing attitude about what she's capable of. This was after Haruka saw a portrait Michiru created of the end of the world, with Haruka snarking she didn't think a privileged rich girl like her could possibly understand a concept as bleak as the apocalypse. Michiru makes it clear Haruka had no clue what she was talking about.
* TheDividual: With Uranus; They were created as a pair, never get solos in the Sera Myu, instead getting duets, and the scenes they have solo can be counted on one hand. The 90's anime forcibly separates them for a single episode, instead pairing her with Mars.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Dislikes kikurage mushrooms.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: When Haruka and Michiru's visions of the Silence come, you can't blame them for being terrified, but they believe that the Silence is something that must never be allowed to happen, ''ever'', and that they have to kill Hotaru to stop it. They don't realize that Sailor Saturn and her powers exist for a reason: the old must be destroyed so that the new can be created, and when things go too far, sometimes it's better to just RestartTheWorld.
* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: All we really know about her backstory is that she got the memory of her past life and awoke as Sailor Neptune from dreams she had. This makes her the only Sailor Guardian who awoke without someone else's help.
* DubPersonalityChange: Like several other characters, the original English dub flanderized her and Haruka, making them even meaner and harsher than the original anime.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Possibly in episode 44 of the first season. When we see how Mamoru and the girls were reincarnated, several other people from the Silver Millennium (presumably other members of the princess' court) are shown to have come with them. The only one shown as more than a silhouette is an extra Sailor Guardian who looks a lot like Michiru. The episode's animation director Hisashi Kagawa [[WordOfGod eventually revealed on Twitter in 2019 that it was a coincidence]], since he didn't know yet that Michiru would even exist in the series, and that he inserted the character just because he expected it more Sailor Guardians to show up later. Fans still accept that it's Michiru, though.
* ElegantClassicalMusician: A very elegant young lady, and a professional violinist who also plays the piano.
* ElementalHairColors: Her blue-green hair indicates her power over [[MakingASplash the sea]].
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: While she doesn't have quite the universal lady-appeal of Haruka, both Ami and Rei (among others) think she's beautiful.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's a gleefully unrepentant troll, albeit an elegant one, but there are some things Michiru won't joke about.
** When Usagi is upset because she thinks Mamoru forgot her birthday (he didn't, he just didn't know when it was because Usagi never told him), Michiru sounds truly disappointed in him, and is none too pleased when Haruka jokingly flirts with Usagi. Michiru might screw with Haruka sometimes by flirting with others, but she draws the line at teasing someone who's emotionally vulnerable at the moment.
** After the guardians become trapped in a dimensional warp created in the Tomoe household, Haruka says it would be better if they didn't come back. Michiru is seriously offended by such a notion.
* FakeDefector: In the final episodes.
* TheFashionista: The classiest and prettiest dresser of the Sailor Guardians. Her sense of fashion and skills at applying makeup are commented on by the others more than once, and Usagi sees her as what a fairy tale princess would be like.
* FingerSuckHealing: Done when Haruka gets her hand injured with a glass shard [[spoiler: from Nehellenia's MagicMirror.]] Michiru then sucks on her injury to try getting the shard out and succeeds, then spits it out on her handkerchief. [[spoiler: Then Haruka notices dark energy coming from the shard and knocks it away from Michiru; it transforms into a glass monster, and they have to fight it alongside others.]]
* FriendlyRivalry: With Ami. They get along well for two girls who are also rivals in swimming races. In fact, the only time a swimming match gets between them is when Michiru calls Ami out over letting her win.
* TheGadfly: Michiru just loves to innocently screw with people by making veiled comments hiding behind an innocent smile. She goes around making comments for the sake of screwing with people and watching their reactions when they finally get what she's ''really'' saying. For example, when she's paired up with Rei in the first ''Stars'' arc of the anime, she nonchalantly comments about her relationship with Usagi:
-->'''Michiru''': You two are close, huh? Quite similar to Uranus and me.
** An earlier moment comes in ''S'' when Makoto asks about Haruka being able to drive. Haruka stammers that she got a license overseas, and Michiru just mentions "So she says."
** Throughout ''Stars'' she loves to tease Haruka about her rivalry with Seiya, even telling the girls that Haruka doesn't hate men, she just hates ''popular'' men (implying she hates Seiya because he's more successful with girls).
* GirlyBruiser: Michiru is very feminine, collected, cultured, and soft-spoken. She likes to wear long, flowing dresses and is interested in classical music, painting, and reading. She's also a balance of LadyOfBlackMagic and LadyOfWar with her water-based attacks and Stradivarius, and the [=90s=] anime show her inflicting a ''brutal'' beating on Germatoid clones with her bare hands.
* GirlyRun: Clearly seen when running from Usagi in Season 3, Episode 6 of ''Crystal''.
* GoGetterGirl: She seems to have a need excel at everything she does, from her artistic endeavors to her refined demeanor, from her swimming matches to all of her classes at school.
* GoodCounterpart: The notes in Naoko's materials collection describe her as being "like Esmeraude became calm."
* GoodIsNotNice: In the 90s anime, Haruka and Michiru are very cynical, trying to kill Hotaru in an attempt to stop Saturn from ending the world. Even after Usagi manages to both save Hotaru and the universe, they still are aloof. In the ''Stars'' arc, both act as [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent Double Reverse Quadruple Agents]] for Galaxia, even killing Saturn and Pluto to prove their loyalty. However, they are also WrongGenreSavvy and end up dying themselves. They have good intentions, but also believe that the ends justify the means and thus do not hesitate to resort to violence or trickery. They are are much nicer in the manga.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Though Neptune is undoubtedly on the side of good, she is the most ruthless of the Sailor Guardians, and the most willing to ShootTheDog if she feels that there is no alternative. She was at her most brutal when she was working solo; Uranus is the one holding back the worst of Neptune's impulses.
* GrumpyBear: In the anime. Like Haruka, she's somehow offended by the idea that love and friendship and justice can bring you a victory without a serious sacrifice. She's a milder version than Haruka due to her calm and refined demeanor, but she still counts.
* GuileHero: She'll sometimes use her wits and charms to manipulate others to get what she wants. One time, she used this technique on Seiya when she and Haruka still thought the Starlights couldn't be trusted.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Same deal with Sailor Uranus. In one scene in the old English dub when the girls are talking about first kisses, Michelle reminisces about having her first kiss with "Brad, the cutest boy at school." Then she and Amara exchange meaningful looks and hastily exit the scene.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: She and Haruka are usually living their own adventure while the protagonists are in Tokyo. In the anime they even leave after the third season specifically to do this.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: With Haruka.
* HoneyTrap: This is one of her tricks when she's not as Sailor Neptune. In one episode, she briefly flirts with Seiya to investigate the Starlights.
* IDidWhatIHadToDO: She and Haruka consistently fail to learn from their mistakes and are willing to sacrifice lives--both innocent civilians and their own fellow soldiers--on the basis that the end (destroying the enemy) automatically justifies the means. Given that in the realm of Sailor Moon, what consistently defeats the villains is the power of unconditional love and not ruthless strategy, their failure to adjust to her strategy (which actually WORKS) marks them out for the StupidSacrifice category. Also, see the end of Sailor Stars for a classic example of this trope dovetailing with NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Uranus and Neptune in the 90s anime refused to work with Sailor Moon and the Inner Guardians because they believed they were too idealistic for their own good and couldn't make pragmatic decisions. After the battle with Pharaoh 90, they scold Usagi for protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]] which almost led to the planet being destroyed and say she is unfit to be queen. However, Uranus and Neptune were rookie soldiers without the experience of fighting various enemies Sailor Moon and her guardians had (judging by the information and flashbacks from the anime, they were active for ''roughly'' a year, with the Death Busters as their only threat to investigate). Examples of their behavior include:
** If Uranus and Neptune were as pragmatic as they believed they were, they would've teamed up with the more seasoned girls who had among them a national genius girl with a handheld supercomputer that's suggested to be more advanced than modern day appliances (Ami), a psychic girl who could've figured out who held the Talismans by divining through the Sacred Fire (Rei), and a girl with a legendary crystal that has the capacity to heal/destroy an entire planet, purge evil from a person or place, and bring the dead back to life (Usagi). Granted, Uranus and Neptune might not have ''known'' about their previous missions to know they're capable, but since Sailor Moon and the Inners started picking up notoriety after they awakened (to the point of having little dolls made in their image and kindergarteners knowing about them in ''R'') and Pluto let them know that Chibi-Usa was the Princess of the Future Silver Millennium, it's hard to believe that they ''wouldn't'' have heard of their exploits through the news or word of mouth, or that Pluto wouldn't have told Uranus and Neptune about them herself.
** After Eudial calls them to let them know she has found a Talisman, Haruka and Michiru call Usagi to meet them, tell her they won't let her slow them down with her "half-baked play war" and even [[WhatAnIdiot take away her brooch]]... with the [[FantasticNuke Silver Crystal]] inside. What Haruka and Michiru both failed to realize was that their plan for finding the Talismans had been rather half-baked. In spite of the time they spent investigating them, they were just piggybacking off the ''enemy's'' efforts: they just sat around and waited for the Death Busters to strike, remove a victim's Pure Heart, then check to see if it was a Talisman. At no point did they try to find them themselves. Eudial had to ''call and tell them'' that she found a Talisman. And at no point did they think she could have been leading them into a trap. They just [[LeeroyJenkins rushed to meet Eudial without coming up with a plan]] other than collecting a Talisman for their mission.
** Regarding Hotaru, they were hell-bent on killing her because she was the reincarnation of Sailor Saturn and they believed she would destroy the world when she awakened, yet they were unaware of her true purpose (to destroy the world ''only'' when things were at their lowest point so everything could be reborn anew) and would've killed an innocent girl and valuable comrade had they succeeded.
** Finally, if Uranus and Neptune had teamed up with the girls and shared what they knew about the Death Busters (admittedly, something Neptune ''had'' suggested to Uranus who refused her), the issue would've been resolved quicker with ''far'' less conflict, but instead they were aloof and condescending towards them and even hindered them on several occasions. Even Tuxedo Mask said that while the Outer Guardians are strong, Sailor Moon is stronger because she has teammates.
** In short, while Uranus and Neptune were smug and condescending towards Sailor Moon and the Inners for their beliefs, it was ''their'' aloof behavior, hasty decision making, and inability to cooperate and share meaningful communication that often led them to make things worse and cause unnecessary conflict.
* IHaveTheHighGround: She and Haruka are fond of this.
* ImmuneToBullets: Eudial's death trap triggers bullets that fly from every direction. Neptune gets hit with every single one, until the guns are out of ammo. ''She survives'', if only for a few moments, and it takes a blast from Eudial herself to finish her off [[spoiler:and rip out her Pure Heart Crystal.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Some of her attacks use a mirror or a violin.
* IncestSubtext: The Cloverway dub creates an interesting [[InvertedTrope inversion]] with Haruka and Michiru. The romantic subtext is ''meant'' to be there... but they're not supposed to be cousins in the original. The company that decided to make them cousins did so for the exact reason of preventing there being any openly gay people in the show, without actually changing enough other stuff to even try and hide how they feel for each other, just hoping no one would think it's odd for two cousins to be THAT devoted to each other.
* IneffectualLoner: She and Haruka have a consistently condescending view of many of the other characters, despite being surprisingly useless when combating actual [[TheDragon Dragons]] or {{Big Bad}}s.
* InformedAttribute: Is thought to be more pragmatic than the Inner Soldiers, yet her decisions say otherwise. See IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance above for more details.
* JerkassFacade: Michiru in the original manga only acted like a jerk to protect the Inners from what she viewed as a failure in her duty, and she was in fact a person with a HiddenHeartOfGold. She's capable of great kindness but hides it with her aloofness and a sharp tongue.
* KarmaHoudini: In the 90s anime. Despite to their refusal to learn from their mistakes and being IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance, Hikaru and Machiru are never really punished in any way that sticks or called out by the other characters who, in addition to always willing to forgive them, constantly praise how "cool" and "mature" they are compared to the Inners.
* LadyAndAScholar: She's clearly intelligent, studies art and music extensively but enjoys all of her classes at school, gets into a prestigious school easily, [[ProperLady and is widely regarded by her peers as the classic ideal feminine woman]].
* LadyOfBlackMagic: Refined and classy, she uses water-based attacks and a MagicMirror that can dispel illusions and teleport people.
* LadyOfWar: She's an elegant, refined young lady who will defeat enemies by whatever means possible. She even uses a ''violin'' to blast enemies to oblivion. The femme counterpart to Uranus' butch.
* LapPillow: Haruka rests her head in Michiru's lap in [[http://www.moonkitty.net/wallpapers/widescreen/imac_Sailormoon05.jpg this]] manga spread.
* LightningBruiser: Not to the extent of Uranus but in the Nehelenia arc, the entire team of 10 is split up into abnormal groupings by the villain, splitting up Uranus and Neptune. The former, paired up with Mercury, notes she never noticed how well Neptune had managed to keep pace with her high running speed until now, having been paired with someone who can't.
* LipstickLesbian: The elegant, lady-like girlfriend of the more [[ButchLesbian masculine]] Uranus.
* LonelyRichKid: She was rich and privileged before meeting Haruka (as indicated by the fact that she owns a Stradivarius, a private helicopter, and a posh-looking condo) but is implied to have mostly kept to herself before they met.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Subverted. She and Haruka make Galaxia think they'll defect to her as long as they can be together, but it's part of a plan to overthrow her. It doesn't work.
* MagicMirror: The Deep Aqua Mirror. It acts as a weapon, can dispel illusions, allows communication over great distances, and can even teleport people.
* MakingASplash: A powerful user of water. Her powers are stated to be from the sea rather than just regular water.
* MartyrWithoutACause: Like Uranus, Neptune strongly believes that victory is impossible without some horrible angsty sacrifice that only they have the moral strength to make.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Michiru is a refined, violin-playing LipstickLesbian while her girlfriend Haruka is a short-haired, athletic, sword-wielding ButchLesbian.
* MeaningfulName:
** Kaioh [[SpellMyNameWithAnS as in]] Kaiōsei, the Japanese name for Neptune meaning "sea king star".
** Her given name means "rising".
* MermaidArcEmergence: The first time we see Michiru she is swimming in her apartment and [[SexySurfacingShot climbs out of the pool]] while throwing her head back in this fashion.
* MirrorCharacter: To Yaten. Both are artistic and fashionable girly girls, are vain, snarky, and try to keep their tomboyish leaders in check. Michiru sees Yaten as a rival when she dethrones her as the school's fashion queen.
* MoralityPet: '''Always''' to Haruka
* MsFanservice: Swims a LOT. Which means we get to see her in swimsuits a LOT.
* MusicalAssassin: With a ''Stradivarius''!
* MysteriousPast: The only thing we know of her past is that she's the only Sailor Guardian who got her powers and Awoke without external help (she simply dreamed of her past life), and even that comes from WordOfGod. Everything else, is completely unknown.
* NecessarilyEvil: Haruka and Michiru only act hard and ruthless because they think it's necessary to save the world. They [[CharacterDevelopment get]] better in the manga though. Not so much in the anime though, as seen toward the end of ''Stars'' where they KILL Saturn and Pluto out of necessity.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: She and Haruka were really enraged over Sailor Moon not seeing that saving the entire world is more important than the life of one person, although Usagi did manage to find away without sacrificing Hotaru.
* NeverMyFault: Michiru and Haruka solely blame Usagi for the way the conflict with Pharaoh 90 ended due to her protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]], even though their aloof behavior, hasty decision making, and inability to cooperate and share meaningful communication contributed to the outcome of the battle just as much as Usagi's actions did.
* NiceGirl: In the manga, she [[TookALevelInKindness becomes this]] by the final arc. She no longer looks down on her fellow Sailor Guardians, though she still struggles opening up to and trusting people, and is genuinely a kind, genial woman who even takes Hotaru in as her daughter. [[BerserkButton Just don't insult her choice of makeup.]] While she and Haruka lighten up in all versions, they still tend act more like jerks late in the '90s anime.
* NonIdleRich: She is, quite possibly, the richest character in the series. She plays a Stradivarius, flies her own helicopter, and lives in a luxurious flat. Though nothing is revealed about her family, she's implied to be an heiress to a massive fortune. Still, she's not above doing humble jobs like teaching grade school, and she likes earning her own money with her art and music. [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob And that's not when she's fighting evil superbeings.]]
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Neptune gets hit with every single bullet from Eudial's death trap and somehow survives.
* NotYourProblem: Haruka and Michiru constantly tell the Inners to back off and leave everything to them. The Inners, [[JumpedAtTheCall being who they are]], never listen.
* {{Ojou}}: It's never stated who her parents are but she's clearly wealthy, as she owns a Stradivarius violin and a gigantic condo with its own aquarium and is a world-famous violinist and painter.
* OneTrueLove: She and Haruka are in a long-lasting relationship and are rarely seen apart from each other.
* OppositesAttract: With Haruka. She is a cultured and elegant lady, Haruka is a sporty tomboy.
* OutOfFocus: In [=SuperS=], hers and Haruka's only appearance is in one of the specials, although they return to full-time characters in ''Stars''.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Basically ''every single thing'' that has come out of Michiru Kaioh's mouth is this. If Usagi is going to be the queen of the moon, Michiru is definitely queen of the trolls.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Neptune and Uranus's stubborn refusal to open any kind of discussion with the other Guardians about what's going on during the Infinity arc approaches the absurd. Even after it becomes clear that Moon and her team are not going to stay out of it no matter what Neptune and Uranus say, the pair keep everything they know entirely to themselves, forcing the Inners to fumble around blindly in their own investigation covering ground that Neptune and Uranus have already covered and repeatedly coming into danger as their efforts draw the attention of the Death Busters.
* PragmaticHero: How she and Haruka see themselves. [[InformedAttribute They really aren't.]] Sure, they're willing to make hard decisions and sacrifices that the Inners are against, but that's far as they go. If they were as pragmatic as they thought, they'd try to get more help, especially from the more experienced and successful Inners, or at least try something else to complete their mission when Plan A fails.
* PrincessClassic: Subverted. She lacks the innocence of a typical Princess Classic, but she's probably the closest thing to one on the Sailor Team in present day.
* ProperLady: A mature, high-born, sophisticated, refined, elegant woman who plays the violin.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Haruka's Red. While both had the same intentions in season 3, Michiru's demeanor was calm and introverted in comparison to Haruka's more outgoing and harsh attitude.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the Cloverway dub, she and Haruka were infamously stated to be cousins to HideYourLesbians. But the dub didn't edit out their flirting scenes, so not only did they look like lesbians, but also incestuous ones. The dubbers apparently thought they could make their affection look familial instead of romantic.
* RenaissanceMan: Aside from being one of the better fighters on the team, she aces all her classes in school, is an accomplished concert violinist and gifted painter, a decent amateur sleuth, a master manipulator, up on high fashion, can fly a helicopter, has the certification to work as a teacher, cooks for her household, seems to know a bit about child healthcare and marine life, and is a champion-level competitive swimmer.
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: She and Haruka have shades of this. They seem to be independently wealthy, with nobody suspecting that they're Sailor Guardians.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: She was right that Hotaru was a threat to Earth, but it wasn't for the fact she was Sailor Saturn rather because she was the vessel for Mistress 9.
* SatelliteCharacter:
** Especially in the manga. Most of her characterization is based around her relationship with Haruka. Even though the two are rarely separated, Haruka gets much more focus and character development. Naoko Takeuchi wrote Michiru this way on purpose because Michiru is the Sailor Guardian the least like her and the hardest for her to relate to. She wanted Haruka to have a complimentary but opposite partner, and Michiru was what came of that.
** This is carried over into both anime adaptations; while she's definitely a little more fleshed out, the writers don't develop her much beyond being Haruka's girlfriend who is a famous artist and musician. Even the episode that shows how they met is told entirely from Haruka's perspective.
* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: In Episode 97 of the first anime she's offended when Ami intentionally throws a swimming race as she wouldn't have minded losing against someone who was giving it her all vs. a win being handed to her.
* SexySurfacingShot: The first time we see Michiru she is swimming in her apartment and climbs out of the pool in a swimsuit while [[MermaidArcEmergence throwing her head back]].
* ShipperOnDeck: In the '90s anime, it's implied that she ships [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple Usagi/Rei]]. After seeing their arguments, she comments that their relationship is just like her and Haruka. Rei is not amused.
* ShipTease: Michiru may be half of an official couple with Haruka, but she is also a real flirt with both men and women. At one point, she flirts with Mamoru (the same episode ship-teases their girlfriends together), and in a later episode, with Seiya ([[HoneyTrap though that was mainly because she wanted to see if the Starlights could be trusted]]), as well as a few one-shot characters. Of course, [[TheGadfly knowing how much she loves to screw with people]], it's hard to tell when she's seriously flirting or not.
* ShootYourMate: During their deception of Sailor Galaxia, she and Haruka are forced to remove Pluto and Saturn's Star Seeds to keep up the charade.
* SilkHidingSteel: While considerably more feminine and graceful than Haruka, it's obvious that Michiru has a will of pure steel. It's strongly hinted that she's the one with the reins in their relationship, and she could have Haruka wrapped around her finger if she wanted to.
* SmugSmiler: She and Haruka do this from time to time.
* SmugSuper: Along with Haruka. In their civilian guises, they seem friendly enough but their arrogance comes out when they transform.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: After Haruka and Michiru are introduced, they take the focus away from Ami, Rei, Makoto and Minako, who are little more than Usagi's support during the Infinity arc, although the four get back in the spotlight during the Dream arc.
* StalkerWithACrush: It is heavily implied in episode 106 that Michiru was one of these to Haruka going way back before she even knew that Haruka was destined to become Sailor Uranus.
* StockSuperheroDayJobs: Schoolteacher. Despite being only sixteen, she is shown working as an art teacher in the anime or a cooking teacher in ''Parallel Sailor Moon''. She and Haruka are also independently wealthy celebrities, so they also fit the [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob rich socialite]] category.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She is very calm, cool and collected, as well as extremely dedicated to her mission...but she can also be very gentle to those she loves (if in a very princess-like way, befitting an {{Ojou}} like her), particularly her girlfriend, Haruka.
* SurroundedByIdiots: How she feels during the Infinity Arc. She thinks that the younger Guardians are too naïve and idealistic to see what's really at stake or take the right action, and the only one who agrees with her is a partner whom she worries about going out of control.
* TakingTheBullet: In the backstory episode of Uranus and Neptune in the 90's anime, she leaps in front of a monster about to attack Haruka, causing herself to be heavily injured.
* TeamChef: When the Outers adopt Hotaru, Michiru does all the cooking for their household. In ''Parallel Sailor Moon'', she actually gave up her chance at fame to become a cooking teacher, suggesting that she's very good at it.
* TheTease: Michiru likes getting a rise out of people and flirting. She's also been shown to intentionally get her girlfriend Haruka jealous.
* TookALevelInKindness: At the start, Haruka and Michiru both refuse to work with the other Sailor Guardians, look down on them like fools, and refuse to trust anyone but each other. They also think that Usagi is unqualified to be the queen and that Hotaru has to be killed to stop the silence. Once they accept the truth and see things beyond their old views, they become more open and caring and are just as loyal to Usagi as the Inners. In the anime, they remain somewhat harsh, critical, and arrogant, but they're still clearly on Usagi's side.
* TownGirls: The Femme to Setsuna's Neither and Haruka's Butch.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Sashimi.
* {{Troll}}: In contrast to her elegant demeanor she's a huge one. She's not malicious or evil, but the moment she says "Ara" expect the conversation to be full of innuendo and oh-so-innocent snarking.
* TrueBlueFemininity: She's color-coded with turquoise and blue, and the LipstickLesbian to contrast with Sailor Uranus' butch. Not to mention that her hair is blue too. (Well, more of a sea green, but close enough)
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Haruka and Michiru are set on the idea that the younger Sailor Guardians are just too idealistic to deal with threats as well as they do, despite the fact that it's common knowledge that Sailor Moon's team have been fighting and defeating all kinds of evil threats long before Uranus and Neptune appeared. Either Uranus and Neptune paid no attention to what's been going on or they think the Inners just got lucky too often.
* UndyingLoyalty: Obviously to Usagi/Princess Serenity, as is the case with all other Sailor Guardians, but more notably, to Haruka. She survived a barrage of bullets to reach Sailor Uranus and protect her from Eudial. She'll even casually risk the world being destroyed so long as Haruka is safe with her, which even surprises the villain attacking Haruka.
-->'''Sailor Neptune''': There seems to be a misunderstanding... The world is only worth protecting if Haruka is living in it.
* UnskilledButStrong: While Uranus and Neptune have some skill, they don't have the experience Sailor Moon and the Inner Guardians have (and are implied to have awoken as Soldiers a few months after the Black Moon Clan's final attack/before the Death Busters struck when they received visions of the world being destroyed by The Silence), yet their magical attacks are stronger than the Inners to better suit their responsibilities of keeping outside threats from attacking Earth.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: With their refusal to cooperate with the other guardians (who have more experience than them) and their belief that only they have the moral strength to make hard choices, she and Haruka tend to make WrongGenreSavvy decisions that make things worse, like their FakeDefector scheme in the GrandFinale where they end up sacrificing Setsuna and Hotaru for nothing.
* VanityIsFeminine: She's the most feminine of the group and takes pride in her appearance. It's appropriate that she gets a mirror as a weapon.
* VerbalTic: "Ara" in the 90s anime.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: The whole deal with Eudial was triggered when she first [[TakingTheBullet took a hit for Haruka]] [[BadassInDistress and got captured]]... and upon seeing Haruka coming to rescue her and fight Eudial, releasing herself and trying to stop her.
* WaifFu: In the anime. While as tall as Makoto and only a few months older, she's much slimmer... And then, when confronted by a horde of Germatoid clones, she proceeded to maul them with her bare hands before being overwhelmed by sheer numbers. The only foreshadowing we had were [[WalkingSwimsuitScene the many times she has been swimming]] (thus developing muscles) and her instinctively assuming a [[WrestlerInAllOfUs Pankration stance]] when she sees their numbers.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Swims so much it kind of comes with the territory.
* WaterIsWomanly: A very sophisticated young lady, conducting herself gracefully and being a classical violinist and painter. She has wavy sea green hair resembling waves. And as Sailor Neptune, she has powers over water that come from the sea.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: See {{Anti Hero}}ine above. This is mellowed a bit by working with the inner soldiers, but Uranus and Neptune still occasionally resort to more extreme tactics. [[spoiler:Of course, this being an [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism idealistic]] series, they are usually proven wrong about said tactics being [[SlidingScaleofUnavoidableVersusUnforgivable necessary]].]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Along with Haruka, Michiru chastises Usagi for her idealism and protecting [[ApocalypseMaiden Hotaru]] (or rather, her body, which had already been taken over by Mistress 9), which almost doomed the whole world.
* WiseBeyondHerYears: Despite being only 16 when first introduced, Michiru is easily the most mature and refined of the guardians.
* WrongGenreSavvy: From the way she and Haruka are utterly convinced that victory requires sacrifice, their tactics in battle, and their claim that Usagi's ideals are childish, they act like they're living in a war drama, not a MagicalGirl series.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Although mainly an {{Ojou}}, but she also shows strong vibes of this in her devotion to her girlfriend Haruka and their Outer Guardians' mission.
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