Line #35 Recap/SailorMoonSuperSEp01


1	[[quoteright:675:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/circo.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:675:''[[{{Creator/CormacMcCarthy}} Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?]]'']]
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4	->''Okay, here's the story. Turns out girls nowadays have to go out and search for their own Prince Charming. But that also means that the days of being a helpless damsel in distress are over. So you better think twice before messing with my friends! Or else, InTheNameOfTheMoon, I'll punish you!''
5	-->'''Usagi Tsukino'''
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7	->([=CWi=] Episode: '''"Dreams Take Flight"''')
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9	Chibi-Usa dreams of meeting a pegasus in a crystal forest. After waking up, she joins Usagi and the Sailor Guardians at a park to view a total solar eclipse. While everyone is distracted during totality, a circus tent appears in downtown Tokyo. Inside the tent, an old woman calls forth the Amazon Trio, and tasks them with finding the pegasus who is hiding in someone's beautiful dreams. One of the trio—Tiger's Eye—targets Unazuki for her dreams of finding true love. He lures her to a remote spot before pinning her and extracting her Dream Mirror to see if the pegasus is hiding there. Usagi and Chibi-Usa show up in time to transform but are no match for Tiger's Eye's lemures. Even Tuxedo Mask is useless in this fight. It's only when the pegasus appears upon hearing Chibi Moon's plea for help that Both Sailor Moon and Chibi Moon are powered up enough to defeat the lemures and save Unazuki.
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11	!!Tropes in this episode include:
12	* AnatomyOfTheSoul: In the Sailor Moon universe, a person's dream can appear as a floating pink mirror. One can look inside and see the person's dreams, though doing so can cause them tremendous pain.
13	* BadGuyBar: The Amazon Trio have a personal bar where they can drink and look at photos of potential targets.
14	* BigDamnHeroes: With Moon, Chibi Moon, and Tuxedo Mask restrained by the bad guys, Pegasus shows up to save the day.
15	* BookEnds: The episode ends with Chibi-usa remembering Pegasus' ominous warning of not telling anyone about their first meeting.
16	* CircusOfFear: The main villains of the season are the Dead Moon Circus. A troupe of otherworldly beings who dress like deranged circus performers and plan to conquer Earth.
17	* CrazyPrepared: Even though Unazuki doesn't hold Pegasus in her dreams, Tiger's Eye is under orders to kill her so Pegasus doesn't try to seek refuge with her.
18	* CreepyDoll: Tiger's Eye summons his Automaton Lemures, Karakuriko, to fend of the Sailor Guardians while he magically assaults Unazuki. She has the ability to break apart her body parts to restrain the Guardians or poke them with sharp things.
19	* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: While discussing about the upcoming eclipse, Usagi jokes about the supernatural rising up to terrorize the waking world. Which ends up happening in the form of the Dead Moon Circus.
20	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Tiger's Eye method of targeting Unazuki plays out like a case of sexual assault. First he lures the girl into a secluded area, restrains her so she can't escape (using a giant red body board), and then shoves his head into her Dream Mirror while she screams and begs him to stop.
21	* DreamSequence: Befitting the season's theme, the episode starts with Chibi-usa dreaming about a weird horse in a crystal forest.
22	* DubNameChange: The Dead Moon Circus is called the "Dark Moon Circus" in the Cloverway dub.
23	* EvilOldFolks: The ringleader of the Dead Moon Circus is an old woman named Madame Zirconia who directs the Amazon Trio in capturing Pegasus.
24	* EvilPlan: Zirconia explains to the Amazon Trio that their job is to find and capture Pegasus who is hiding in the dreams of a given person. Once captured, they will exploit his powers to usher a new era of circus supremacy.
25	* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: After Chibi-usa gives a passionate speech about women needing to go out and find their own Prince Charming, Usagi accuses her of reading through Ikuko's women's magazines again.
26	* HumansAreBastards: The residents of the Dead Moon Circus mock humanity for not realizing their tent has landed in the city, calling them selfish creatures who couldn't be bothered to care if the world itself was destroyed around them because they're so wrapped up in their own problems.
27	-->'''Giant Mask Lemures''': They're the kind of people who only care about what's happening in their own little lives.
28	-->'''Conjoined Twin Lemures''': So ''then-!''
29	-->'''Tiny Upside-Down Lemures''': Even if the whole world collapses at their feet-!
30	-->'''Lemures Balancing The Upside-Down One On Her Head''': Even if a tent appears suddenly in the middle of their city-!
31	-->'''Fat Woman Lemures''': The people around here would never notice at all!
32	* ImStandingRightHere: Unazuki teases Chibi-usa about her thinking about a boy and playfully warns her about not doing anything that her mom and dad wouldn't approve of. She says this while Usagi and Mamoru look on with concern for her.
33	* InstantCostumeChange: In her dream, Chibi-usa goes from her pajamas into her Small Lady form.
34	* InvisibleToNormals: The denizens of the Dead Moon laugh at how the humans are unable to detect their presence. Though Usagi does see their tent before running off to join her friends.
35	* KryptoniteFactor: Zirconia explains to the Trio that Pegasus cannot exist because he lacks a physical body and would painfully die if he stayed out for too long. To avoid this, he has to take shelter in someone's beautiful dreams.
36	* MonsterOfTheWeek: The new monsters for the season are called Lemures. They're summoned from the shadows of the Amazon Trio and have a quirky circus theme to them.
37	* NextTierPowerUp: With a flick of his horn, Pegasus grants Moon and Chibi-Moon their super forms along with a new finishing move to destroy the Lemures.
38	* NoodleIncident: After Chibi-Usa's surprisingly thoughtful speech about finding love, Usagi bluntly asks if she was reading age inappropriate material again.
39	-->'''Usagi''': You've been reading Mama's mature novels without her permission again haven't you.
40	* QuirkyMiniBossSquad: The Amazon Trio consists of flamboyant men who hunt innocent people in the hopes of finding Pegasus.
41	* ShesAManInJapan: To get around Fish Eye's attraction to men and interest in crossdressing, the Cloverway dub rewrote him as a girl. And interestingly enough, they made Madame Zirconia into an old man.
42	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Karakuriko has various similarities with Nephrite's Model Youma, Jumou.
43	* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: Because of a solar eclipse occurring in the Juuban district, the Dead Moon Circus is able to escape it's otherworldly prison and plant itself in the waking world completely undetected.
44	* WhipOfDominance: Tiger's Eye uses a whip to forcibly trap Unazuki, summon Karakuriko, and later to defeat Tuxedo Mask.
45	* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Rei and the cats have this reaction after hearing how Usagi genuinely believed that ghosts and werewolves come out in a full moon (not an eclipse).

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