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* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: Or Japanese, as the case may be.
* [[Alien Abduction]]: In the "R" season, Al and En. Later, Crimson Rubeus (who captures all the Sailor Senshi with the exception of Sailor Moon) and Prince Demand who captures Sailor Moon herself.
* [[Amazon Admirer]]:
** The Sailor Moon manga has Sailor Moon ordering Tuxedo Kamen to stay out of the battle with Kunzite, after they've discovered each other's mutual identities, because the Dark Kingdom general's too dangerous and she has to protect the Moon Princess. She gives him a kiss before running off to confront Kunzite and protect Sailor Venus, who has lied that she is the Moon Princess. Tuxedo Kamen gives a huge blush before running off after her, because he says nuts to staying on the sidelines.
** One of the brainwashed ice skating instructors in season one becomes attracted to Makoto when they find out she's too heavy for him to pick up, but she lifts him without breaking a sweat, or losing her balance. Unfortunately, it makes him think that she's Sailor Moon, as Usagi is wobbling on her skates. The episode ends with him resuming his relationship with his skating partner, revealing that it was the youma's influence.
** In Sailor Moon S, an episode goes into Haruka's backstory right around the time the Witches 5 target one of her former track competitors, a woman named Elsa. Elsa loved racing against Haruka, and introduced her to her violin friend Michiru. While Elsa regretted that Haruka retired from running, because she wanted a chance to win against Haruka fairly, she isn't bitter about losing. Far from it, she's happily wistful and hoping her former rival is well. It's hinted that maybe she wanted something more between them. Haruka is saddened and freezes when Eudial succeeds in taking Elsa's Pure Heart, though to Elsa's credit she had the sense to run for her life and dodge the first shot.
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The Sailor Senshi, the Amazones Quartet.
* [[Amnesiac Lover]]: Endymion/Mamoru in season 2.
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** Shingo's more of an aversion really, most of their problems are caused by his sister and despite their bickering he's shown to care quite deeply for her. One episode even showed that he was fairly well-liked amongst Usagi's friends, which is impressive given their exasperation with her sometimes.
* [[As Long as There Is Evil]]: {{spoiler|Chaos. In the manga, as long as stars are born, Chaos will continue to be reborn as well. In the anime, it simply returns to the heart of all humans.}}
* [[Art Evolution]]: One of the most notable examples is Shingo, who is one of the few characters to visibly ''age'' between seasons. He starts out drawn much like other children are in anime and manga with short limbs and very rounded features. Later on he looks (appropriately) more like a pre-teen, he's had something of a growth spurt (making him only slightly shorter than his sister) and his face has lengthened too. As a general example for everyone else, compare [http://www.bestcosplay.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/4_1073817_faa017dfca872e1.jpg this screenshot of Sailor Moon herself]{{Dead link}} from Season 1 to [https://web.archive.org/web/20200122120205/http://img.youtube.com/vi/dIDXnD2OeIk/0.jpg this one] from Season 4.
** Part of this may be due to an undefined timeline. To complicate matters, the anime, which was produced over 5 years, seems to only really take place over the course of two years. Which two years is hard to say as an onscreen date, printed on a visible newspaper in season 1 says it's 1992, while a similar date in Stars says 1996.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Naoko Takeuchi likes space (the entire friggin' concept), jewelery (most obvious in the villains' [[Theme Naming]]), and [[Cool Car|Cool Cars]] (Nephrite and Haruka).
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** And in the manga, {{spoiler|Amazoness Quartet and, in the final arc, just about every character from the present, except Usagi}}.
*** Notably, in the anime victims always manage to break out of this. In the manga, not nearly.
* [[Butterfly of Transformation]]: The third season has Sailor Moon's [[Transformation Sequence]] heavily showing the butterfly motif while transitioning from Sailor Moon into Super Sailor Moon in "Crisis Make Up!" It even touches on the [[Butterfly of Death and Rebirth]] as well. This is used elsewhere, such as {{spoiler|using the Sailor Soldiers' power themselves instead of using the usual [[Holy Grail Transformation Trinket]], the latter is currently in the foe's hands.}}
* [[By the Power of Greyskull]]: "[Planet] [Something] Power, Make-up!" The dub usually just took off the "Make-up!", but sometimes you got things like "Moon Cosmic Dream Action!"
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: All the Sailor Senshi. They don't ''have'' to call out their attack names (we know that because they don't always do it), but they usually say the name. Theories on why vary.
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* [[The Chosen Many]]: It turns out there are Senshi all over the galaxy! Heck, there's even a Sailor ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Galaxia]]''!
* [[Clothes Make the Legend]]: The Sailor's fuku.
* [[Collectible Cloney Babies]]:
** In the manga, the Inner Senshi receive their transformation pens from playing the Sailor V game, ''before'' learning they are magical. The game dispenses them as prizes, and the girls pocket them, including studious Ami. They only learn how to use them later when youma attack them. When Usagi plays, she receives the Disguise Pen to reward her progress for making it that far. She thinks it's a cute prize, until Luna tells her what it really is. Makes sense when we learn that {{spoiler|a computer replica of her mother Queen Serenity is revealed to be the brains behind Crown Game Arcade's system, and pulls a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] rescuing the Senshi from a brainwashed Endymion. Turns out Queen Serenity knew what would incentivize her reincarnated daughter.}}
** Knockoff Sailor Senshi merchandise exists in the anime. Crane Game Joe, one of the seven beings that has a youma inside of him, uses telekinesis to win different dolls from arcade games. He makes sure to collect specific ones, even though they're for children. The DiC dub tried to write that he donates the toys to charity, whereas in the original he kept them for himself.
* [[Combined Energy Attack]]: "Sailor Teleport", "Sailor Planet Attack"
* [[Cosmic Forces Trio]]: The Sailor Starlight titles: Sailor Star Maker (Creator), Sailor Star Healer (Preserver), and the Sailor Star Fighter (Destroyer).
* [[Crossover]]: See [[Rule 34]]. Cross with [[Dragon Ball]] Z.
* [[Cryptic Background Reference]]: ''StarS'' is ''made'' of this trope. The anime teases you to a degree with the idea of there being countless senshi and planets out there; the manga offers you brief glimpses of alien worlds, including one where the inhabitants apparently have fish for heads. Not fish heads, ''fish for heads.''
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** If one considers all Sailor Senshi in ''Sailor Moon S'' and ''Sailor Moon Super S'' not introduced before to be Outer Senshi, then Sailor Saturn is literally death.
* [[Frilly Upgrade]]: Contributes to the image. Eternal Sailor Moon takes this trope to ''ridiculous'' levels. At least Super Sailor Moon looked nice.
== Tropes G-M ==
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** Depending on how liberal your view of the trope is, the harvesting of Heart Crystals in the second half of ''Sailor Moon S'', or collecting the Star Seeds in ''Stars'', may also count.
** Might want to count Al and En's harvesting of human energy in ''R'' in there too.
* [[Humans Are Their Own Precursors]]: The Silver Millennium was sufficiently advanced to make the Moon (and, in the manga, other planets of the Solar System) habitable, until there was a war that destroyed everything. Modern humans knew nothing about the old civilization.
* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: Usagi is a Type A, while Ami and Makoto are Type B. See the page for details.
** Also that Usagi/Super Sailor Moon is [[The Messiah]], though that may not count.
* [[Immortality Begins At Twenty]]: Averted; aging for magical characters is more of a matter of one's magical development than actual physical aging, which leads to Chibi-Usa looking like a kid at 900 and Sailor Saturn aging [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up|as the plot demands]] rather than on a timetable.
* [[Intellectual Property Religion]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20141022021228/http://serenitism.webs.com/ Serenitism.]
* [[In the End You Are on Your Own]]: More than one series ends with Usagi as the last person standing and forced to finish the job herself.
* [[In the Name of the Moon]]: The [[Trope Namer]]
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* [[Magic Music]]: In the anime, Al from the R series can summon his [[Monster of the Week|Cardians]] by playing a flute. The Three Lights' songs in the Stars season also allow them to send mental messages to people - with the side effect in the manga of drawing the attention of enemies.
* [[The Man Behind the Man|The Woman Behind The Woman]]: Queen Metaria with Queen Beryl and Galaxia with Nehellina in Season 1 and Season 5 of the anime, respectively.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Many, ''many'' characters have meaningful names. [http://www.genvid.com/diesgaudii/site/art-ety001.html This is probably the best site to visit if you want to find out what they are.]{{Dead link}}
* [[Mid-Season Upgrade]]: Usagi gaining the Silver Crystal, which powered up her Moon Healing Escalation in the first season, and gaining the Holy Grail which gave her a [[Super Mode]], powering up her Moon Spiral Heart Attack into the Rainbow Moon Heart Ache in S.
** And in Stars, Chibi Chibi upgraded Eternal Sailor Moon's Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss attack to Silver Moon Crystal Power Kiss.
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* [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling]]
* [[Mysterious Protector]]: Tuxedo Mask, Moonlight Knight in the Makaiju arc of ''SMR''.
== Tropes N-S ==
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** Subverted in the R movie by Fiore.
** Keep in mind that most of the normal people who would see both the Sailor Senshi and their civilian identities are usually busy trying not to get killed by whatever's attacking at the moment.
** Of course sometimes its so blindingly and stupidly obvious when the ''[[Too Dumb to Live|main characters are confused by each other's identities]]'' that a full-on [[Face Palm]] is guaranteed, as well as the words [[Epic Fail]] ripping from your vocal chords. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120102100228/http://manga.animea.net/sailor-moon-chapter-7-page-6.html Exhibit A, thankyou manga].
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Ami's father divorced and ran out on her mother years ago. Rei's dad is a high-ranking politician who dropped her off at the shrine after her mother died and only sees her for a monthly lunch date. Makoto's parents died some time in the past and she's lived on her own without legal guardians for a while. Uranus and Neptune already live together by themselves for unexplained reasons, and Pluto is a college student when she shows up in present day. Hotaru, on the other hand, is the daughter of one of the key villains in the 3rd arc, and her mother is dead. In the manga, Hotaru lives with the other Outers after her father's death at the hands of the senshi; in the anime, he loses all memory of his villainous activity and raises her until Pluto comes to get her in the last arc; afterwards she lives with the Outers to match up with the manga.
** In the manga, Uranus and Neptune state that they have legal guardians/patrons.
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** Notably, however, Hotaru is physically younger after her age-up than she was intially.
* [[Power Gives You Wings]]: Eternal Sailor Moon. Also in the climax of the 4th season in the anime. She jumps off a building to save a falling Chibi-Moon, the two of them collide with Pegasus and then sprout wings. She laters grows wings on her own during her [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]] with Galaxia.
* [[Power Trio]]: Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars, and Sailor Mercury for almost half of the 1st season. Also Sailors Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto once the three met up until the revival of Sailor Saturn. And The Amazon Trio. ''And'' the Sailor Starlights.▼
* [[The Power of Friendship]]
* [[The Power of Love]]: If you couldn't tell by the heart-shaped compact, the heart-shaped rod, which attacks by hitting enemies with a giant heart, this is what causes her upgrade in S.
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** Many international viewers often scratch their heads at the white Arabian clothes of Moonlight Knight (aka Tsukikage no Knight in Japanese). He's actually a shout out to the very first [[Tokusatsu]] super hero, Moonlight Mask (aka Gekko Kamen), who dressed almost identically and was also a Toei franchise. He even had an anime made in the 1970s in which the uniform was even closer to the one used by Moonlight Knight in ''Sailor Moon'' (though that incarnation used a helmet instead of a turban).
** One early episode features a shot of the inside of a visor used by Sailor Mercury. It was almost identical to the view seen by Robocop, including his prime directives.
* [[Signature Device]]: The Sailors' transformation wands.
* [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]]: Both the anime and the manga featured a great deal of physical comedy with the main characters, with Usagi as the most common victim of [[Amusing Injuries]] due to her cowardice in combat and her extreme clumsiness. Ironically, Mamoru, the only man in the least likely to be on the receiving end of slapstick humor (though he wasn't immune). The English dub of the anime censored a lot of it out for the first 65 episodes, though this eased off after the licensor switched.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Obviously on the idealistic end of the scale, very much so in the anime version. There it even actually comes up during mid-combat dialogues between Sailor Moon and at least two of the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]], but, notably, said [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] throw their speeches about how the world is rotten and hopeless, when they are [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]/[[Demonic Possession|Possessed by an]] [[Eldritch Abomination]].
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* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: vis-a-vis Haruka
* [[Superhero]]
* [[Super Mode]]: [[The Messiah|Sailor Moon]] gets one [[Mid-Season Upgrade|during Season 3]] from The [[Public Domain Artifact|Holy Grail]] with which to save the world from evil. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Super Sailor Moon]] came with a butterfly motif, had a stronger version of regular Sailor Moon's attack at the time and usually transformed back into regular Sailor Moon not long after performing said attack. This version has an altered uniform with new hairclips, transparent shoulder guards, etc., but the most noticeable changes are the white skirt with blue and gold trim and [[Frilly Upgrade|the long transparent backbows.]] Compare [https://web.archive.org/web/20140107083938/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Sailor_Moon_
== Tropes T-Z ==
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** Justified, in the manga, the Dark Kingdom says that they have looked all over the world for the Silver Crystal ''except'' in Japan.
** Not to mention that this trope, in-universe, will indeed be taken to word, with the rise of Crystal Tokyo in the future.
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* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]
* [[Villain Teleportation]]: Present, but [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] with The Witches 5, the only [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|QMS]] to ''not'' use this method of transportation. Instead Eudial and Mimette [Not really the other Witches] would leave Dr. Tomoe's lab (using a car and walking, respectively) and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|reappearing aboveground in illogicial locations]] such as a pond or the middle of a furniture store.
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** Chibi-Usa's pink hair is actually commented on by several charcters in the manga, remarking that it's clearly not normal, leading to the fanon speculation that everyone else's hair color is for the viewer only and they actually have rather normal hair colors. Takeuchi actually drew a series of images in which the senshi were all given normal hair colors. You realize quickly how difficult it is to identify some senshi without their signature hair...
*** Tricky indeed, but not too hard. {{spoiler|Their signature hairstyles are largely still intact, and Mercury and Jupiter are still packing their signature earrings. Process of elimination handles it from there.}}
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120524195024/http://mangastyle.net/book4/4-08.jpg Here's the image in question if you're curious.]
** Half-averted in the live-action adaptation, where the girls only sport their original hairstyles when transformed - in civilian forms, they all have average hair colors and styles (except for Luna in human form). Even Usagi, whose odango are less pronounced and placed at the sides of her head.
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