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* [[The Abridged Series]] (''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]'')

* [[Achilles in His Tent]]: The standard plot happens a little differently to demure Mercury, who starts as the only Sailor Senshi without offensive abilities, and is too nice to storm off. Instead, she's offered a chance to study abroad and further her goals of becoming a doctor, which will remove her from the Sailor Senshi. She's about to take it, but changed her mind at the last moment so returns in time to get her mid-season power upgrade (which finally makes her more action-geared) and rescue the rest of the team from a monster only weak to ice, and she returns to the fold.

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

* [[Executive Meddling]]: The sudden 180 in tone after the second season is believed to be the result of this trope - there were concerns that the original audience for the show was growing out of Sailor Moon. Hence SuperS jettisoned even mentions of the Outer Senshi and the darker and more complex storylines, and refocused the show to spend more time on Chibiusa, a younger character who could theoretically appeal to kids better. Aside from [[The Scrappy|creating]] [[Hatedom|a lot of fan animosity towards the character]] and being precieved a poor adaptation of the original story, it led to a ratings slump the series never completely recovered from. It also led to Kunihiko Ikuhara's departure due to frustration over the lack of creative control (which also led to his formation of Be-Papas and ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'').

* [[Fairy Tale Motifs]]: The first part of the fifth season is ''very'' predictable if you're familiar with Hans Christian Andersen's "[[The Snow Queen]]".

* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: Nephrite. Even the original version used green blood to tone down the violence a bit, but being impaled by thorns and hurt by burn marks was pretty gruesome.

* [[Is That Cute Kid Yours]]: Chibi-usa, who ''is'' Usagi's kid, and Chibi-Chibi, who isn't... [[Epileptic Trees|Probably.]]

* [[It Has Only Just Begun]]: Episode 111. (Ep 21 of Sailor Moon S)

* [[Karmic Death]]: The fate of most of the villains who don't do a [[Heel Face Turn]]. When you look at it, aside from final antagonists (Queen Beryl, Queen Metaria, Wiseman, and Pharaoh 90), the only major villains to be directly killed by a Sailor Senshi are Kunzite, Esmeraude (who'd turned into a dragon), and Germatoid. The other major villains to die are killed by other villains.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: While it's true that the series contained many ridiculous elements, it never shied away from self-parody. Examples include episode 104, which pokes fun at Chibi-Moon's theatrics, and episode 184, where the senshi are forced to fight in the Tsukinos' kitchen and Sailor Moon keeps knocking things over with her wings. Sailor Iron Mouse also repeatedly points out how boring it is to listen to the same speech over and over again.

** The Rainbow Crystal sub-arc from season 1 was also a case of this.

** The Nehellenia villain arc extended into Sailor Stars to pad out the fact that the final storyline of the manga was far shorter than the ones preceding it.

* [[Pacing Problems]]: Each member of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] from ''Sailor Moon S'' had decreasing amounts of spotlight in order: Kaolinite lasted for thirteen episodes, Eudial for nine, Mimete either eight or nine (depending on how you look at the episode where she is killed by her successor), Tellu for two (counting the episode where she kills Mimete), and Viluy only one. Cyprine and Ptilol, [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil|the most powerful of the Witches 5,]] only lasted for [[Beyond the Impossible|half of an episode.]]

* [[The Paragon Always Rebels]]: Sailor Galaxia.

* [[Pastel-Chalked Freeze-Frame]]: Most notably ''EVERY'' time Haruka and Michiru show up, as it's accompanied by a very distinctive chorus.

* [[Translation Correction]]: The Robocop joke in Sailor Mercury's visor had a misspelling of "innocent" and the wrong name (Mash_ instead of J. Smith); this was fixed in the North American dub.

* [[Two-Timer Date]]: Minako in ''SuperS''. Ironically, her boyfriends were really TigersEye and HawksEye competing over her dream mirror.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: In one episode, the Sailor Senshi are debating who should have the lead role in a play. In the Japanese version, Makoto says she should have it because she has the largest breasts. The dub changes to "the most talent," but did not alter any of the breast-related visuals, making it ''painfully'' obvious what she was really talking about. This lead to fans [[Memetic Mutation|sometimes playfully referring to breasts as 'talent.']]

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Many monsters-of-the-week have a verbal tic based on their name. Especially played with in R, with most of the droids.

* [[Victim of the Week]]: The Rainbow Crystal carriers. [[My Friends and Zoidberg|And Naru.]]

* [[Villain Exit Stage Left]]: Usually via teleportation.

* [[Villain Song]]: Queen Beryl and Galaxia in the anime (the former was not sung by her voice actress but nevertheless is still Beryl's song). Virtually every villain that appears in [[The Musical|the Seramyus]] has either a solo or at the very least a group song as well.

 

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