by Wyrd » Sun Dec 06, 2009 8:24 pm
Let's try this again. First I repeat the earlier caveats that the characters and cliches change quite a bit between the manga, PGSM(the live action series), the true anime, he movies, and that dubbed p.o.s.(It wasn't all bad. Season 4 even had some lovely music. It was just mostly bad.) I'm not as familiar with PGSM, but there are a few details I plan to mention.
Sailor Moon: Tsukino Usagi, Bunny, Buns, Odango, Meatball head, or Serena depending on the series and who is talking to her. She is a bit of a klutz in all of the series. It is worst in the anime, which has her performing pratfalls nearly every episode for most of the series. Taken literally, these accidents could add up to enough to threaten her life, just as Ranma should die at his first malleting. If you treat them as a little exaggerated for comedic effect, then she is not much clumsier than I was; I almost always had something scraped or bruised but never seriously hurt myself. She cries very easily, and usually at full volume. She mostly grows out of that trait in the manga pretty rapidly; in the anime, her friends are still complaining about her ear-splitting crying in Sailor Stars. Her crying is so loud that in the first episode, her odango jewels amplify her wails, turning them into a powerful sonic attack. She spends most of every fight quite agilely dodging almost everything thrown at her(barely) until someone else distracts the youma of the day enough for her to kill it. She is depicted as always hungry, but I don't think she ever actually steals her friends' food(with the exception of an ice cream incident). If they are eating buffet style, she will try to eat everything that is not on someone else's plate, and is very shameless when it comes to begging, pleading, badgering, and blackmailing those around her into giving her more food if she feels she hasn't had enough. She even stoops to trying to weasel her way into some of her daughter's food when she is around. She has a tendency to moon over every cute boy she meets, yet gets extremely jealous if Mamoru(Darien) so much as looks at another girl. She has jealousy fits about the amount of attention he gives their daughter, for Pete's sake. She is very enthusiatic about everything she does, except anything school related. She is the only senshi to still live with both of her parents or have any siblings(she has a younger brother).
Princess Serenity: In PGSM, Serenity is a completely seperate personality which occasionally awakens. She is cold, arrogant, aloof, graceful, and decisive. In short, she behaves like actual royalty. She is also very vengeful. In PGSM, Serenity destroyed the Moon kingdom and the invading Dark kingdom by herself when her precious Endymion is slain.
Sailor Mercury: Mizuno Ami is a geek. She is described as having an IQ of 300. She is focused entirely on her studies in her attempt to become a doctor like her mother. Her parents are divorced. She lives in a very nice apartment with her mother. She is extremely shy and gets very embarrassed when she gets caught doing anything girly, such as reading romance novels or admitting that she is member 15 of the 3 Lights fan club in the Anime. Her reaction to getting a love letter is to break out in hives. She is interested in boys, but has stated that she feels she doesn't have time for them right now. She is constantly trying to get the other scouts to study; without her help, it is very unlikely that Usagi and Minako would have made it into such a good high school. She does not lord her intelligence over everyone else, but she can be very competitive when it comes to any intellectual activity, such as chess or test scores. She takes every practice exam she can get her hands on and consistently places number 1 in the country on these tests. The one time she was beaten, it completely floored her; the person who did so only beat her by using psychic powers to know the test answers. Usagi is probably a better influence on Ami than anyone else, because she is so good at drawing Ami out of her obsessive habits into other activities. Ami starts off pretty two-dimensional and probably grows the most as a person throughout the series by developing aspects of herself she never knew were there. She is very kind and generous. The one physical activity she loves is swimming. She actually outswims Michiru in one episode of the anime. She is the only senshi, other than Moon, to ever take out a youma of the day completely by herself(in the movie Ami's First Love).
Sailor Mars: Hino Rei is a miko(shrine maiden) who attends Thomas Aquinas Catholic school. She and Hotaru are the only scouts who never end up at Juuban High School(even Setsuna gets a job there). She lives with her Grandfather at a rather large and nice Shinot shrine. The inner senshi tend to meet at her place to study because she has more room than any of the others. Her parents are never mentioned in the manga or anime. I believe that Meet Sailor Mars(yes, I'm a geek. If you are reading this, so are you.) says that her mother is dead and her father lives somewhere else in Tokyo; she hasn't seen him in years, though her grandfather occasionally does see him. Her personality changes quite a lot over the various media. As mentioned above, in the manga, she is calm, graceful, composed, almost regal. In the anime, she is boy crazy and constantly fights with Usagi, but they are mostly the fights of really close friends who just know which buttons to push. In PGSM, she is cold, aloof, and highly suspicious of everyone. She often mixes her miko skills with her senshi magic, using sealing scrolls with her fire soul attack(Mars fire ignite in the dubs) and as demonstrated by the symbols in her Burning Mandala(Mars Fire Surround in the dubs). She has mild prophetic abilities, which she focuses through meditation in front of a sacred fire. She has a guest who lives at the shrine, Chad(I don't remember how to spell his name. Yoshiro?), who does work around the shrine in exchange for room and board. He is a horrible musician(you never hear him play, you just hear the others begging him not to) and has a serious crush on Rei, about which Rei is completely oblivious.