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=== Tropes from the Anime ===
 
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: The Shittenou, Emerald, Prince Diamond, the Witches 5, the Amazon Trio, and the Sailor Animates.
* [[Americans Hate Tingle]]: Although Japanese audiences were quite fond of Chibi-Usa, in the US she's often seen as [[The Scrappy]], often taking the brunt of criticism for the fourth series because it's basically centered around her. The reaction to her first English voice actress probably didn't help either.
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*** "Rainy Day Man" and "My Only Love" are two other well-liked dub songs.
** The German dub used four entirely original theme songs during the run of the show, all of which have become extremely popular both within the German fanbase and with international fans as well.
* [[Badass Decay]]: Mamoru. Mainly because while the anime never gave him anything more than his roses and the occasional moments with his cane, the manga gave him an attack of his own that was strong enough to kill some of the villains. {{spoiler|He still died without a fight in the Sailor Stars manga though. In his defense, so did most of the cast of the manga}}.
** Kunzite is a particularly menacing and dangerous presence in the Dark Kingdom arc of the anime, forming shrewd plans to deal with his enemies and providing a more seasoned and experienced source of aid to his younger partner, Zoisite. After Zoisite dies, he attacks the Sailor Senshi and they just barely survive his onslaught. Then ''directly'' after this happens, Kunzite suddenly becomes the "main villain" for an arc and all this goes out the window. He comes up with particularly brainless plans to root out Sailor Moon's identity, all of which target seemingly random traits of women that naturally just cause him to zero in on the ''wrong girl''. He also frequently gets outshone by the evil Endymion/Tuxedo Mask (''and that is saying something''). Though he ''does'' return to being competent for a few episodes once Endymion is put out of commission.
** While more decayed in demeanor rather than character, the frightening Zirconia in ''Super S'' also got a lot more frustrated and pathetic in the last half of the series, whereas in the first half she was chillingly calm and foreboding. Justified in that she had to deal with more rebellious, troublemaking henchpeople and orders from the ''real'' [[Big Bad]], Queen Nehelenia.
* [[BLAM Episode]]: Episode 67. This episode features the girls going to an island, Chibiusa making friends with a dinosaur, and Sailor Moon and company saving the dinosaurs from an erupting volcano. This episode has no references to the actual plot or villains, inexplicably adds ''living dinosaurs'' to a show which, for the most part, did not stray into this territory, and then gets forgotten for the rest of the show. This episode is generally considered the most pointless episode in the show and was actually removed from the English release by Toei themselves (if ADV is to be believed).
* [[Complete Monster]]: Queen MetariaMetalia and even more so Wiseman/Death Phantom. Also, Rubeus from the same arc as the latter was just plain ''nasty''.
** What's particularly impressive about MetariaMetalia is that we only see her a few times, and she's mostly a formless entity who doesn't ''do'' anything. Then we get to the last few episodes of the first series and find out that she had destroyed the Moon Kingdom and taken the lives of the Senshi, Princess Serenity, and Prince Endymion in the past. In the finale, when a fatally wounded Beryl comes grovelling to her, it becomes clear that MetariaMetalia is holding ''her'' leash rather than the other way around as we were led to believe. She then merges her power and consciousness into Beryl and declares that she will destroy the entire universe with darkness. Then she reveals her motives during her fight with Usagi - she believes that nothing in the universe and in life is worth protecting, so every living thing must die. In such a short amount of screen time, she establishes herself as a thoroughly pure evil creature.
** Wiseman/Death Phantom is the worst of the bunch. While MetariaMetalia had resentment towards life, Death Phantom just loved death and a state of empty nothingness, which is why he wants to destroy the entire universe. To work towards this goal, he corrupted the Black Moon clan into doing his bidding, making them create a dark crystal and then capture different points in the past so that the time gate would weakn enough for them to travel to past-Tokyo from the future and bring the dark crystal with them. In this defenseless world, Wiseman would be able to open the dark gate and let out Death Phantom's power so that the universe could be cast into nothingness. Along the way, he Mind Raped and corrupted Chibi Usa into turning against her family and friends, always telling her telepathically that they'd never loved her so that she could kill them. When Esmeraude proved an unreliable pawn, he used the dark crystal's power to turn her into a mindless beast and sent her off to her death. When Safir turned against the clan, Wiseman hunted him down and murdered him right in front of his older brother, whom he later killed too in an attack meant for Sailor Moon! After further [[Mind Rape]] on both Usagi and Black Lady, Wiseman is able to completely merge with Death Phantom upon opening the dark gate, and then finally makes his attempt to vaporize the universe. What makes him worst is that he wasn't ''just'' a Chaos Spawn. Wiseman was completely evil and self serving ''before'' becoming Death Phantom!
** Before the depths of Wiseman's depravity was revealed, Rubeus held the title of most despicable villain to date. Unlike the other members of the Black Moon clan, he had no redeeming features and was both a misogynist and a sadist. He seemed perfectly on board with going along with anything Wiseman ordered him to do so long as it got him glory and recognition within his family, and he tried to physically harm Chibi Usa on many occasions. But what really made him bad was that he was the epitome of a [[Bastard Boyfriend]], the type willing to use, abuse, and discard his female minions however he saw fit, no matter how emotionally or physically damaging it was to them. In light of this, Esmeraude discarding ''him'' is poetic justice.
* [[Ear Worm]]: The English opening. Say what you want about the dub, but that song is ridiculously catchy - especially the awesome and epic guitar solo.
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=== Tropes from the Manga ===
 
* [[Artistic License Astronomy]]: ''The Lover of Princess Kaguya'' is just painful. When the titular comet disappear from astronomers' view, they believe it got too close to the sun and burned up, which is reasonable enough. But then a supposedly-brilliant scientist says that if the comet burned up, there should have been a rain of shooting stars. While shooting stars can come from solid particles left behind by comets, they have to ''enter the Earth's atmosphere'' to show up as shooting stars; space is big and breaking up near the sun won't do it. Later on, Kaguya says the Earth is 4.5 million years old, rather than 4.5 ''billion.''
** A similar error appears in the Dead Moon arc. Hotaru makes a miniature recreation of the universe, which Haruka says "right now, it's at 46 million years; complete simulation of our solar system." This may have been a case of [[Blind Idiot Translation]]; Haruka's statement would have been scientifically correct had she said "Right now, it's at 4.6 billion years old; our solar system is complete."
** For anyone who tries to [[Fan Wank|justify]] what Haruka said, data currently shows that our solar system is around 4.6 billion years old, and that the universe is about 13.7 billion years old. Saying that Hotaru's model showed the universe as it was 46 million years ago before present day would be like saying, "I'm running a simulation showing my grandmother growing up and aging. She's at 73 years old now, an adult woman."
** It is clear, that the [[Sailor Moon]] manga universe just doesn't work like our universe at all. Reconciling the fifth arc with anything like our astrophysics on any level is ''utterly impossible''. In the light of this the complaints about such "mistakes" look silly. Although considering that the numbers above have only the number of zeros wrong, [[Blind Idiot Translation]] seems to be a likely culprit in this particular case.
* [[Complete Monster]]: While ultimate [[Big Bad]] Chaos is arguable due to being [[Made of Evil]], all of it's spawns (Queen MetariaMetalia, Death Phantom, Pharaoh 90, and Queen Nehelania) are definite qualifiers.
** Professor Tomoe in the ''S'' arc, who is in some ways even more heinous. being a normal human who willingly turned into a monster. {{spoiler|When his wife was killed and daughter Hotaru fatally wounded in a fire, he decided to make the latter into the prototyped "[[Bio Augmentation|Super]] [[Tyke Bomb|Being]]". When this initially failed, he became ecstatic when the [[Eldritch Abomination|Daimons]] land. (Their first act, for your information, is to [[Demonic Possession|possess]] his [[Sexy Secretary]] Kaolinite.) He [[Deal with the Devil|embraces their offer]], believing himself to be [[The Chosen One]]. Unlike the other villains of this arc, he was never possessed; he was just willing to [[The Quisling|sell humanity down the river]], his daughter included, [[For Science!]] and [[A God Am I|godhood]]. Yes, he really was that much of a dick.}}
* [[Critical Research Failure]]: Himeko says that "Apollo 12 launched during a snowstorm!"
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