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This page covers the Death Busters, a group of villains in Sailor Moon.
Death Busters (The Heart Snatchers)
The main antagonists of the third story arc of Sailor Moon. Hailing from a distant universe known as the Tau Nebula, the Death Busters are a group of individuals known as Daimons who sought out a new universe in order to escape their dying home world. During their travels they encountered Professor Souichi Tomoe after an experiment caused an explosion in his lab that left him and his daughter Hotaru on the verge of death. Tomoe collaborated with the Death Busters over the next few years in order to achieve the group's goal of creating a doorway from Earth to the Tau Nebula in order to bring their master, Pharaoh 90, into the world. Pharaoh 90's presence on Earth would cause the Earth to become a World of Silence and wipe out all non-Daimon life. open/close all folders
In General
- Aliens Are Bastards: In Crystal, they seek out Earth to make their new homeworld. They don't care this would end humanity so long as their race survives.
- Alien Invasion: Pharaoh 90 uses Daimon eggs to create vessels that contain their alien bodies.
- Allegorical Character: S makes them represent the evils of corrupted adulthood; above everything else, the Death Busters value climbing higher up the "ladder" in hopes of rewards from their superiors.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: And HOW. They're the absolute worst at this in the 90s anime. While in the manga they're all killed by the Guardians, in the 90s anime there's very little loyalty between any of them. The only person Kaolinite and the Witches 5 trust in the 90s anime is Professor Tomoe.
- Eudial is killed by Mimete because she wanted her job, Mimete is killed by Tellu because Mimete tried to steal her job as well, Tellu is killed by her own plants, Viluy by her own nanites, Cyprine and Ptilol are tricked into blasting each other, Kaolinite is killed by Mistress 9, most likely as payback for all the times she abused her host body, and even Mistress 9 is subjected to this when she's almost killed by Pharaoh 90.
- Dub Name Change: They're referred to as "The Heart Snatchers" in the Cloverway dub, while the Witches 5 are called "Witches 5 Research and Development," a subdivision of the "Bureau of Bad Behavior."
- Evil, Inc.: The Cloverway dub gives them the name of "Bureau of Bad Behavior".
- Terraform: The ultimate goal of the Death Busters once Pharaoh 90 fully manifests on Earth.
Leaders
Pharaoh 90
Pharaoh 90
Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (Japanese, Crystal), John Eric Bentley (English, Crystal), Jeff Lumby (Cloverway) Foreign VAs
- The Assimilator: Possessing the same Vesselization ability possessed by his Daimon spawn, Pharoah 90 sought to asborb Earth and terraform it into an ideal planet. He also absorbs Mistress 9 to accelerate the process.
- Big Bad: The main antagonist of the Infinity arc in the manga and the S season of the anime.
- Cosmic Horror: He is some kind of planet-sized Eldritch Abomination that destroys entire planets and devours the pure hearts of sentient species.
- Dark Lord on Life Support: The result of depending on the Tau Crystal and Hostes to keep himself and his world alive.
- Diabolus ex Nihilo: In the 90s anime, where he isn't even mentioned until near the very end of S and most of the season is spent building up Mistress 9 as the main threat instead.
- Dimension Lord: Of the Tau Nebula.
- Eldritch Abomination: The manga and "Crystal" depict him as an amorphous blob of darkness with a pair of glowing "eyes" as his only identifiable features. In the 90s anime, he looks either like a planet or a swirling mass of dark energy.
- Expy: Appareance wise, he looks exactly the same like Wiseman/Death Phantom, being a formless cloud of Darkness where only his eyes are visible. Whoever, while Wiseman can use a bit of "glamour" (as in, just wear a black coat over a death body to puppeteer), Master Pharaoh 90 prefers to just look like pure darkness.
- Fusion Dance: In the manga and "Crystal", absorbing Mistress 9.
- Genius Loci: His goal in the manga and Crystal, where he planned to merge with the Earth and make it their "second mother planet".
- Greater-Scope Villain: For most of the 90s anime, he isn't a driving, active force - he's just there, waiting to be uncanned.
- Killed Offscreen:
- In the manga and Crystal, since destroying him would have also destroyed the Earth, Sailor Saturn and Sailor Pluto have no choice but to banish him (along with Sailor Saturn herself) to another dimension before the full force of Sailor Saturn's world-destroying Death Reborn Revolution is unleashed. Affected by the aforementioned attack, his death is inevitable but occurs in the Tau Star System offscreen after the portal is closed.
- The Man Behind the Man: In the 90s anime, to Mistress 9. This is not the case in the manga and Crystal, in which he's shown as calling the shots from the beginning and Mistress 9's existence is a late-arc surprise.
- Non-Indicative Name: His name is Master Pharaoh 90, but appareance wise, he doesn't look anything from egypt at all.
- Nothing Is Scarier: In the anime, from afar he looks like a planet. We're never shown what he looks like up close, but the dead look in Sailor Moon's eyes after she returns from destroying him in his home dimension she emerges from him possibly implies that we're better off not knowing.
- Omnicidal Maniac: His goal is to colonize the Earth and, by extension, wipe out all of humanity and replace them with Daimons.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Is stuck inside his home dimension, the Tau Nebula, until Mistress 9 provides him with a suitable power source to complete a gateway to our reality for him. Chibi-Usa's Silver Crystal (the manga/"Crystal") or the Holy Grail (the '90s anime).
- Villainous Breakdown: In Crystal, after a combination of being battered by Sailor Saturn's attacks, and having Super Sailor Moon release the full power of the Legendary Silver Crystal and Holy Chalice inside of his form, Pharaoh 90 desperately tries to claw his way back into his home dimension. He gets his wish when Sailor Pluto cuts off the space time warp that transported him to earth in the first place...but considering the fact that he is now trapped in that dimension with an angry Sailor Saturn he may have come to regret that.
- The Voiceless: The '90s anime version, aside from some very creepy moans when he finally arrives on Earth. This arguably suited his status as a Cosmic Horror better.
- Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Averted. He attempts to flee back to his mother planet to die, but Sailor Saturn denines him that death for another.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: To the nearly depleted Tau Crystal after Mistress 9 provides him Chibiusa's Legendary Silver Crystal as a replacement.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: Has been feeding on human "Hosts" to regain his strength in the manga as the Tau Crystal is losing its power.
Mistress 9
Mistress 9
Voiced by: Yuko Minaguchi (first anime), Yukiyo Fujii (Crystal) (JP), Susan Aceron (Cloverway), Christine Marie Cabanos (Viz) (EN) Foreign VAs
Portrayed in the musicals by: Tomoko Inami, Chinatsu Akiyama, Karin Takahashi
Portrayed in the musicals by: Tomoko Inami, Chinatsu Akiyama, Karin Takahashi
- The Antichrist: Both versions. She functions as the "key" necessary for Pharaoh 90 to enter our universe. In the 90's anime she is even referred to as the "Messiah of Silence."
- Body Horror: Crystal really shows off the creepiness of Mistress 9's decaying form by having both her body and face twist apart.
- Creepy Child: Whenever Mistress 9 temporarily takes over Hotaru's body she tends to make the young girl appear even more creepy then her outward appearance suggests. Which unfortunately just ends up making Hotaru's life
even harder. - Demonic Possession: She's been slumbering inside Hotaru's body for years, and starts to take over after reacting to Chibi-Usa's Silver Crystal, or, in the 90s anime, consuming Chibi-Usa's Pure Heart.
- The Dragon: Serves as Pharaoh 90's right hand woman and partner whose job is to open the breach necessary so that Pharaoh 90 can enter the Sailor Guardians home dimension and start assimilating earth.
- Eldritch Abomination: She turns out to be one of these in the manga, complete with her complaining about how uncomfortable her human body is and her true form bursting out of Hotaru's body towards the end of the arc.
- Evil Counterpart:
- In the 90s anime she is this to the Messiah of Good, Sailor Moon.
- She also serves this role to Sailor Saturn, the other split personality living inside Hotaru's body, whose purpose is to also destroy the world. However, Saturn destroys worlds in order to create rebirth and new life whereas Mistress 9 destroys planets for its own sake.
- Fusion Dance: In the manga, with Pharaoh 90.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: She is nearly killed by Pharaoh 90 himself, who does not concern himself with her continued existence and attempts to destroy her upon entering Earth.
- Invincible Villain: In the manga, once she breaks out of Hotaru's body she becomes more or less this and ultimately merges with Pharaoh 90. In the 90s anime, however, she is destroyed after Sailor Saturn awakens from inside her.
- Killed Offscreen: In the manga and Crystal, is inside Pharaoh 90 when he is mortally wounded by Sailor Saturn, dooming both to be destroyed on the other side of the portal Sailor Saturn took them through.
- Knight of Cerebus: In both the manga and the anime, her awakening is when things truly start taking a very dark turn, and it results in the death of Chibi-Usa.
- Lonely Doll Girl: Prior to awakening, Mistress 9 spends most of her screentime brooding on a large throne in a dark theater surrounded by a lavish assortment of dolls and toys. Even more bizarrely, this doesn't seem to be cross-contamination from Hotaru's personality either; despite both personalities enjoying dark clothing and dim lights, Hotaru's own bedroom is completely doll-free.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Her goal is to bring Pharaoh 90 to Earth, which will consume it completely.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: She gives Kaolinite a You Have Outlived Your Usefulness moment. Given how abusive Kaolinite was to Hotaru, it's almost revenge by proxy.
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Physically. She's possessing Hotaru and forces Hotaru's body to age up once she takes over in full. Hotaru reverts to normal when she breaks free and awakens as Sailor Saturn.
- Prehensile Hair: Her main form of attack.
- Red Baron: In the 90s anime, she is also known as the Messiah of Silence.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: There are multiple shots in the 90's anime that show Mistress 9 taking over Hotaru's body via her eyes turning red the most prominent of which would be right before Mistress 9 consumes Chibi-Usa's Pure Heart crystal.
- Red Herring: The 90s anime spends most of the season hyping her up as the Big Bad, only for it to be revealed in the last few episodes that she is actually The Dragon to Pharaoh 90, who almost kills her as he makes his arrival on Earth.
- Split-Personality Takeover: Mistress 9 has a habit of suddenly manifesting itself inside Hotaru's body whenever the girl is in danger or is sufficiently angry although these tend to be brief isolated moments. However she fully takes control of Hotaru's body after reacting to Chibi-Usa's Silver Crystal or pure heart.
- After she takes full control of Hotaru, she's on the other side of the split, trying to keep Hotaru from taking hold.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: To Kaolinite in the anime, and later is on the receiving end of this by Pharaoh 90.
Professor Souichi Tomoe/Germatoid
Professor Souichi Tomoe/Germatoid
Voiced by: Akira Kamiya (first anime), Takuya Kirimoto (Crystal) (JP), Jeff Lumby (Cloverway), Keith Silverstein (Viz) (EN) Foreign VAs
Portrayed in the musicals by: Shunsaku Yajima, Ryuuji Kasahara, Kaname Aoki, Yuki Kaon
Portrayed in the musicals by: Shunsaku Yajima, Ryuuji Kasahara, Kaname Aoki, Yuki Kaon
- Abusive Parents: In the manga and Crystal. He is very emotionally abusive to Hotaru and used her for his experiments in his own selfish motives.
- Adaptational Heroism: 90s anime. Also an Adaptational Nice Guy. To start with he is a Type II Anti-Villain whose motivation for working for the Death Buster was out of a desperation for finding a method to heal Hotaru's impaired condition. Second, he is a Benevolent Boss; see that entry for more information. Finally, he is a Good Parent who cares about Hotaru, even when evil. It really seem like the only reason he became evil is because of his Demonic Possession. Out of all the bad guys in charge of a sub-group of minions, Tomoe is arguably the nicest one. He's seen engaging in small talk with the Witches 5, and simply admits that he's very disappointed whenever one repeatedly fails instead of threatening to have them punished or killed. He even played Twister with them and gave Mimete a pep talk when she was depressed! In the manga and Crystal, however, he's a non-possessed Mad Scientist trying to wipe out humanity who used his own daughter for his experiments in his own selfish motives.
- Admiring the Abomination: In "Crystal", he shows a love for all the Daimons he created regardless if they are perfect by hybrids like Witches Five or genetic throwbacks.
- Anti-Climax Boss: Subverted in the 90s anime. Germatoid's body explodes with a single hit by Uranus' World Shaking, but then it's remains enter the dozens of artificial bodies he had created and he puts up a good fight against Uranus and Neptune.
- Ascended Extra: Complimenting his Adaptational Heroism, Tomoe was also given a much bigger role in the 90s anime, replacing Kaolinite as the leader of the Witches 5, and acting as The Dragon to Pharaoh 90 until Mistress 9 awakens.
- Benevolent Boss: In the 90s anime, to the Witches 5. While the other villains tend to either brutally punish or kill their minions if they fail, Tomoe only shows slight disappointment and constantly gives them more than a second chance. He even shows concern about their health and claims that he doesn't want to lose such talented workers.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: In the anime. Very efficient Mad Scientist. Very quirky when off duty.
- Demonic Possession: The anime version, due to a Deal with the Devil in order to save his daughter.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Appears to be the Big Bad at first, and he even has his Co-Dragons, but in the end he's revealed to be a Co-Dragon himself.
- Dragon-in-Chief: For most of the S series in the anime, he's the driving force behind the Death Busters.
- Eldritch Abomination: The creature possessing him in the anime. In the manga and Crystal, his One-Winged Angel form also counts.
- Enemy Mine: When Mimete causes the interior of his house to go to another dimension and trap Hotaru inside, he's forced to accept the Senshi's help to save Hotaru from being trapped in said dimension. He lampshades the Irony of having to rely on his enemies to actually help him save his daughter.
- Evil Is Deathly Cold: In the manga and Crystal, Hotaru and Usagi both describe his hands as being inhumanly cold to the touch.
- Evil Genius: A mad scientist with delusions of Godhood who creates Daimons for Pharaoh 90. He also created the Witches 5 and used his own daughter as a guinea pig for his experiments.
- Evil Laugh: In the anime, he has a truly awesome one.
- The Faceless: His face is often obscured in the 90s anime version; showing only his shining glasses and mouth.
- For Science!: His reason for willingly siding with Pharaoh 90 in the manga.
- A God Am I: Prof. Tomoe calls himself a God in the manga and Crystal.
- Humanoid Abomination: Both the anime (while he's possessed) and in the manga and Crystal (which he did to himself).
- Large Ham: The biggest one in Sailor Moon. Exhibit A
. - Laughably Evil: The anime version.
- Love Makes You Evil: In the 90s anime, he was The Professor and he cared more genuinely for Hotaru than in the manga, but was driven towards the Despair Event Horizon in the freak lab incident that obliterated his wife and assistants and severely injured both him and Hotaru. He only agreed to serve Pharaoh 90 when offered a Deal with the Devil that would save the dying little girl, not knowing that it would get worse.
- Mad Scientist: Very obviously - just look at the guy!
- Mystical White Hair: In both media, he managed to uncover unknowable cosmic secrets without any magic of his own. Less so in the manga, since while he did manage some impressive feats in human engineering, he did have some help.
- Never My Fault: Benevolent Boss as he is, he will still complain to his minions about how they're wasting his Daimon eggs and not finding a true pure heart, even when he's the one who picked the Victim of the Week.
- Nightmare Face: Slasher Smile with Scary Shiny Glasses? Yes. He looks like a typical "happy face" logo, which is bad enough, but his creepy personality makes it even scarier.
- One-Winged Angel: Tomoe transforms into a Daimon-human hybrid monster (called Germatoid in the 90s anime) to battle Sailor Moon.
- Only Sane Man: Ironically, despite being the most unhinged of the Death Busters, he's the only member who's completely dedicated to the group's success, rather than stabbing his coworkers in the back for no reason.
- The Quisling: In the manga and Crystal, this guy WILLINGLY agrees to help Pharaoh 90 enter our universe despite his plans to merge with the Earth and destroy all life on the planet.
- Redemption Earns Life: Anime only, though at a cost of most of his memories as well as being severely injured. By the time of Sailor Stars he seems to be mostly (but not completely) recovered.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: In the anime, these are one of the two features of his face we can usually see through shadows, constantly hiding it. The second is Slasher Smile.
- Schrödinger's Cast: He's affable, funny, and sympathetic in the anime, but was pure evil in the manga.
- Spared by the Adaptation: He is killed by Sailor Moon in the manga and Crystal, but spared and Put on a Bus in the 90' anime (in which he was possessed by Germatoid, who dies in his place).
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: According to Sailor Saturn, Tomoe's act of reviving Hotaru as a cyborg was the perversion of nature that provided Pharaoh 90 with a foothold on Earth.
- Transhuman Treachery: Though in the anime he didn't have a choice.
- Villains Out Shopping: He's often seen enjoying tea. In one episode, he DID go shopping, which was vital as this enables him to unwittingly escape from Mimete's antics and thus enabled him to meet the Senshi who explain what happened, which left him with no choice but to accept their help to solve the situation.
- White Hair, Black Heart: He has white hair and is the Big Bad.
Kaolinite
Kaori Naitou/Kaolinite
Voiced by: Noriko Uehara (first anime), Hikari Yono (Crystal) (JP), Kristen Bishop (Cloverway), Tara Platt (Viz) (EN) Foreign VAs
Portrayed in the musicals by: Keiko Hanayama, Mutsumi Fukuma, Miki Kawasaki, Kei Ohgi
Portrayed in the musicals by: Keiko Hanayama, Mutsumi Fukuma, Miki Kawasaki, Kei Ohgi
- Adaptational Badass: In the 90s anime she repeatedly fights the Sailor Guardians on her own, even after the Daimons get destroyed, and almost kills them twice. She had Sailor Neptune at her mercy in one episode, and in a later one was able to survive a full-on Sailor Planet Attack. Had Sailor Uranus not intervened and bounced her attack back on her, Kaolinite would've killed the Inners and Tuxedo Mask. After being revived and spending several episodes on the sidelines, when her powers are reawakened Kaolinite kidnaps Sailor Chibi Moon and sacrifices her pure heart to officially reawaken Mistress 9. This is all in stark contrast to manga and Crystal Kaolinite, who answered directly to Pharaoh 90 and controlled the Witches 5, but accomplished little in advancing the goals of the Death Busters while her minions did all the work for her.
- Adaptational Jerkass: In the 90s anime, she's very emotionally abusive to Hotaru while in the manga and Crystal she is at least respectful to her while it's actually Hotaru's father who is the Abusive Parent.
- Adaptational Wimp: Zigzagged. Her role within the Death Busters is much more grand in the manga and Crystal, to the point of arguably being higher ranking than Professor Tomoe since she is in charge of the Witches 5 and has direct contact with Pharaoh 90. The anime instead gave the Professor a much larger role, with Kaolinite relegated to merely being his assistant. That said, in the anime she prioritizes going after the Guardians directly to stop their interfering, something none of the Witches 5 try to do. She goes as far as to bait them with a heart target just to draw out Uranus and Neptune, going as far as to try and murder Neptune herself. She fought all the Inner Guardians to a standstill and almost killed them and Tuxedo Mask before Sailor Uranus intervened, while in the manga she was an Anti-Climax Boss. After her first death she's relegated back to just being Tomoe's assistant, until she regains her full powers and snatches Chibi Moon to sacrifice her for Mistress 9's revival. Her second death at hands of Mistress 9 in the 90s anime was anticlimactic as well, though.
- Back for the Dead: In the 90s anime, Kaolinite is revived by Prof. Tomoe and given a second chance, but she fails to defeat the Sailor Guardians again and is killed by Mistress 9 as revenge for abusing her host.
- Back from the Dead: As mentioned above, she's killed by Sailor Uranus fairly early into the season but is revived by Tomoe after Eudial's arc.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: In her expanded Crystal backstory.
- Came Back Wrong: In the manga and Crystal, Kaori was originally a human lab assistant to Professor Tomoe, but when the Death Busters invaded she was struck by lightning. At that point, the woman called Kaori was killed and the vesselized Daimon called Kaolinite was born.
- Demoted to Extra: In the manga, Kaolinite was Pharaoh 90's second-in-command (until Mistress 9 awakens), having the title of Magus and being the leader of the Witches 5; in the 90s anime, she was reduced to being Prof. Tomoe's assistant and love interest.
- Evil Redhead: Is a villain and has a long red hair.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Twice in the 90s anime.
- Just before she's about to finish off the Sailor Guardians, Sailor Uranus deflects her attack right back at her and seals her in glass, which leads to her first death.
- And MAYBE it wasn't such a good idea to emotionally abuse Hotaru. Did she honestly think Mistress 9 wouldn't know what she was doing to her host body?
- Humanoid Abomination: Possibly in the 90s anime, definitely in the manga and Crystal, where she was the first successful human vessel that the Daimons created.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Is it Kaori, Kaorinite, Kaori Nite, Kaori, Kaoli Night, or Kaori Night?
- Kick the Dog: In the 90s anime she kills Hotaru's fish and snarks at her when she writes a letter to a former ill boy that she idolizes. Although the situation regarding Hotaru's fish is left ambiguous as to whether it was Kaolinite who did it or Hotaru during a moment when Mistress 9 was in control. The latter seems more likely, since the memory is shown during a montage of Hotaru recollecting the times when she's blamed for things she can't recall doing. Either way she relishes in blaming Hotaru for it.
- Killed Off for Real: After she's killed the second time in the 90s anime by the newly awakened Mistress 9, she stays dead and never comes back to life.
- Knight of Cerebus: Her introduction in the 90s anime consisted of her Daimon stealing Rei's heart crystal and destroying Usagi's brooch, thus disabling her from transforming into Sailor Moon. In fact, later on, she manages to steal the Pure Hearts of all of the Inner Guardians, including Usagi's (with the exception of Venus, whose Pure Heart was later removed by Eudial.
- Love Makes You Evil: She's in love with Professor Tomoe in the 90s anime and it's implied she's in love with Pharaoh 90 in the manga and Crystal.
- Magic Staff: Wields one, just like the Witches 5.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Her dresses have a plunging neck that goes down to her navel, giving the viewers a good look at her exposed cleavage.
- No-Respect Guy: In both the manga and the 90s anime, though ironically it's reversed. In the manga she is the leader of the Witches 5 and they all respect her, but Professor Tomoe is very condescending and passive-aggressive towards her. In the anime, Professor Tomoe treats her very well, while the Witches 5, who answer to Tomoe, seem to resent her and treat her with open disdain, especially Viluy and Cyprine. And in both continuities, she's on the receiving end of this from Mistress 9.
- One-Winged Angel: In the manga and Crystal, she transforms into a Daimon.
- Only Mostly Dead: Until she is revived by Tomoe in the 90s anime.
- Prehensile Hair: Before her first death, Kaolinite used her hair to attack quite frequently in the 90s anime.
- Retired Badass: After Professor Tomoe revives her in the 90s anime, she seems to have lost her powers and continues to work exclusively as his assistant. It's later revealed she really hasn't lost her powers, at all.
- Sacred Hospitality: When Usagi and Chibi-Usa come to visit Hotaru, she cannot attack them.
- Schrödinger's Cast: Her role in the manga is largely different than her role in the 90s anime. In the manga, Kaolinite is the Magus the Witches 5 report to, and she also uses a mystical well.
- The Starscream: In the manga and Crystal, she wants to replace Mistress 9 as Pharaoh 90s "partner", something that Mistress 9 is aware of and finds amusing. Also implied in the 90s anime, as this is likely the reason why she was so abusive towards Hotaru, although in this case it's mostly so that she can have Professor Tomoe's undivided attention.
- Straight Man: The early episodes have her play this to Tomoe's wackiness.
- Theme Naming: Yep. The mineral kaolinite.
- Too Dumb to Live: 90s anime only. Seriously, how could she believe Mistress 9 wasn't going to be pissed at her for constantly mistreating her host body the way she did.
- Unholy Matrimony: To a degree, with Tomoe. More blatant in the anime, where it's specifically mentioned that he somehow resurrected her after the Guardians killed her, and then there's a scene where she massages his shoulders as Tomoe confides his upcoming plans to her.
- Wicked Stepmother: More or less is this to Hotaru in the 90s anime; she is actually nice to her in the manga, but Hotaru still doesn't like her.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Kaolinite is on the receiving end of this in the 90s anime, courtesy of the recently-awakened Mistress 9.
Witches 5
In General
From left to right: Cyprine, Ptilol, Eudial, Mimete, Viluy, and Tellu.
Underlings of the Death Busters, tasked with collecting human souls in the manga or pure hearts in the anime adaptation. The manga and Crystal depict them as perfect human-Daimon hybrids who serve Kaolinite, but the 90s anime implied to be human and under Professor Tomoe's payroll.
- Adaptational Badass: All five of them in Crystal. Not only do their individual fights get expanded upon, but after being revived, not only do they manage to capture all four Inner Guardians like in the manga, but they also got to capture Sailor Moon for a little bit before getting defeated for good.
- Adaptational Jerk Ass: They may not be saints in the manga or Crystal, but they might as well be compared to their 90s anime counterparts! They were incredibly selfish individualists, who frequently backstabbed each other in order to gain Professor Tomoe's favor. Even when they weren't vying to suck up to Tomoe, they were not above betraying each other for petty gains.
- Ascended Extra: Eudial and Mimete in the anime, where they are multi-episode villains due to the need for the anime adaptation to stretch things out compared to the manga. Not so with the other three, who each die in the first episode they fight the Senshi in.
- Back for the Dead: In the manga and Crystal, despite being revived by Kaolinite and giving some trouble to the Inner Guardians, they're all killed instantly by Sailor Neptune's Submarine Refection.
- Back from the Dead: All of them are killed off individually in the manga and Crystal, but then resurrected by Kaolinite to fight the Sailor Guardians all at once.
- Curtains Match the Window: Their hair and eyes are from the same color.
- Dark Action Girl: Primarily in the manga and Crystal, where they're villainous Daimons formed to be Kaolinite's top enforcers.
- Designer Babies: In the manga and Crystal, they were the "beautiful, super life-forms" created by Professor Tomoe.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: The last three of the Witches 5 in the anime (Tellu, Viluy, and Cyprine) all get unceremoniously killed off within one episode after a brief confrontation with the Sailor Guardans.
- Dub Name Change: In the Cloverway dub, their names are changed to "Eugeal," "Telulu," "Byruit," and "Petirol." Mimete and Cyprine have the last "e" dropped from their names but are larely pronounced the same.
- Dwindling Party: They are wiped out one-by-one over course of the season, usually through their own doings.
- Flat Character: In the manga. While some of them do show a few personality traits, they still receive Monster of the Week treatment.
- Enemy Civil War: In the anime the girls backstab and kill each other without any second thoughts.
- Evil Redhead: At least three of the girls had red or orange hair: Eudial, Mimete, and Ptilol, though Mimete is more strawberry blond.
- Evil Teacher: In the manga, although students, each was at the head of a class at Infinity Academy and was thus allowed to teach said class.
- Geeky Turn-On: Oh yes, look at those labcoats and glasses!
- Green-Eyed Monster: In the 90s anime, this seems to be the main reason for their constant backstabbing.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In the 90s anime, damn near all of them end up getting killed this way.
- Humanoid Abomination: In the manga, where they are really Daimons. In the anime, they're likely just former Muggles who learned Functional Magic and Science.
- Magic Staff: Each Witch carries one to use their spells.
- No Honor Among Thieves: Nope. None at all, in the 90s anime. They all want the glory for themselves, and don't care what they have to go through to get it, even each other.
- Non-Indicative Name: Even after the sixth witch, Ptilol, is revealed, they're still called the Witches 5. This is because Ptilol is just an extension of Cyprine and they count as one witch.
- Psycho Rangers: To the Guardians in the manga. Eudial to Mars, Mimete to Venus, Viluy to Mercury, Tellu to Jupiter, and Cyprine could count as one to Sailor Moon with Ptilol being one to Sailor Chibi-Moon.
- The anime doesn't bother with a direct one on one comparison, but they are this as a group: the Guardians value true friendship above all, would die for each other and achieve their common goals working together as a team; the Witches 5 are fake friends on a good day, literally kill each other to climb the ladder, and work on their own with a big focus on individual goal – and even if they're furthering the Death Busters' overall goals, it's for their personal glory, not for the organisation itself.
- Running Gag: The sign on the door of their office reading "Witches 5". After Eudial is killed we see a piece of paper has been taped over the 5 so that it now reads "Witches 4". And the episode after Mimete is defeated, a piece of paper taped over the first corrects it to read "Witches 3". We never get to see what happens when Tellu and Viluy bite it, but we can assume they still change the paper.
- Schrödinger's Cast: In the manga they all work for Kaolinite rather than Tomoe, are closer to being actual witches, and work fairly well together rather than backstab one another.
- Self-Disposing Villain: In the anime, all of them. Sure, the Guardians helped here and there, but these girls were so busy killing each other and/or being cocky idiots that the Guardians could've probably just twiddled their thumbs and waited.
- Smug Snake: Each one of them seem to think themselves more skilled than they actually turn out to be, especially in the anime.
- Techno Wizard: Eudial will use her computer to research potential victims and developed all of her gadget weapons herself. Viluy uses computers to mass extract the exam students' heart crystals and fights her enemies using nanobots she created.
- Theme Naming: Eudialite, mimetite, tellurite, viluite, cyprine and ptilolite are indeed minerals as well.
- Villains Out Shopping: In one episode of the 90s anime, they play Twister. Prof. Tomoe also joins them.
Eudial/Yuko Arimura
Eudial
Eudial voiced by: Maria Kawamura (first anime), Chiaki Takahashi (Crystal) (JP), Loretta Jafelice (Cloverway), Erin Fitzgerald (Viz) (EN) Foreign VAs
Portrayed in the musicals by: Hitomi Tsumura, Saya Chinen
- Adaptational Badass: Eudial was one of the weakest of the Witches 5 in the manga, but seems to be their leader in the animes. In the S anime, Mimete addressed her as senpai. In Crystal, she's usually the one to stand in the center and lead whenever the Witches 5 are together.
- Adaptational Comic Relief: In the 90s anime. On the other hand, she is more prone to comedic moments and being the Butt-Monkey of many situations.
- Badass Normal: In the 90s anime, she is the first villain to not use any magic and doesn't even appear to have any powers, which is likely the reason why she initially requires Daimons as bodyguards. But once she starts using her various handmade weapons, she is not only able to outsmart each Sailor Guardian in a fight, but turns out to be stronger than Sailor Moon before she transforms into Super Sailor Moon.
- Blown Across the Room: After Usagi transforms into Super Sailor Moon, Eudial attempts to fry her, but Super Sailor Moon deflects her attack and sends her crashing through a stained glass window.
- Car Fu: Before the Fire Buster, this was basically her main form of attack in the anime.
- Combat Pragmatist: In the anime, Eudial discarded magic or complicated plans and used guns that could extract a Pure Heart faster than the Daimons (which she brought with herself only to provide cover for her escape), flamethrowers capable to overpower Sailor Moon's attacks, and even a few dozens machine guns!
- Destination Defenestration: After Super Sailor Moon deflects her attack. Astonishingly, she survives... but only for a few minutes.
- Disney Villain Death: Due to Mimete's antics, Eudial and her car go straight off a cliff, landing into the ocean below.
- Drives Like Crazy: Her extremely reckless driving becomes a running gag in the 90s anime.
- Dub Name Change: Is named "Eugeal" in the Cloverway version.
- Fiery Redhead: Eudial has hair red enough to match her fiery temper.
- Fights Like a Normal: While she may have some magical abilities, like teleportation, she would rather rely on practical inventions to take out her enemies and capture her targets.
- Gadgeteer Genius: In the original anime, unlike near every other villain in the show who relied on magical powers to carry out their plans, Eudial instead used mainly her own inventions. Surprisingly, this makes her more successful than a lot of the villains' in the show, and is what allows her to have a indirect, posthumous revenge on Mimete.
- Homemade Inventions: In the original anime, she mainly uses her own inventions. Take, for instance, her flamethrower Fire Buster. It primarily consists of a motorcycle handlebar, jet turbine, rice cooker, a vacuum cleaner hose, and in the upgraded version, a blender. Mimete also uses one of Eudials' inventions against the Sailor Guardians later on which ironically leads directly to Mimete's Karmic Death, giving Eudial the last laugh from beyond the grave.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Not only does she create a more efficient way to extract Pure Hearts, but she actually succeeds at finding two of the talismans using only a computer. She then sets up an elaborate trap for Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune, who turned out to be the holders of the two talismans, and practically kills Neptune by extracting her talisman while critically wounded and would have done the same to Uranus had Usagi not intervened. But she then shows up again and snatches both talismans, stops the Inner Guardians from following her, and would have killed Sailor Moon and won the battle had Sailor Pluto not appeared at the right moment. Her actions also lead to Pluto revealing the third and final talisman and thus causing the Holy Grail to appear, which she comes extremely close to obtaining. Add all of this, and Eudial came closer to furthering the goals of her organization than any other villain in the show.
- Improbable Weapon User: Her Fire Buster is basically a vacuum cleaner that can shoot fire, and the upgraded version has a blender attached to it.
- Irony: Eudial's status as the No-Respect Guy is quite ironic since she is a Hyper-Competent Sidekick to the Death Busters, who came closer to achieve anything noteworthy for her organization than the other four witches combines, who achieved nothing other than being nuisances to the Sailor Guardians and getting each other and themselves killed for petty gains.
- Large Ham: But only when confronting the Sailor Guardians. During her conversations with Professor Tomoe, she is usually calm and calculating.
- Made of Iron: Not only does she survive having her flamethrower attack deflected back at her, but immediately after she's ejected out of the highest floor of the building through a window and only has a few scratches and bruises to show for it.
- Magic Brakes: Which leads to her death.
- Mugging the Monster: In the 90s anime she did everything she could to neutralize Sailor Uranus and Neptune, and had even captured the latter... Then what she does to capture Uranus enrages Neptune, who breaks free, No Sells fire from all her machine guns, and comes close to just beat her to death. The only reason she survives the confrontation and actually comes out on top is that her panic made her pull the trigger of her Fire Buster II in the exact moment before Neptune could actually grab her.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: That's why she was the most successful of the Witches 5.
- No-Respect Guy: Gets no respect from the other Witches 5 in the 90s anime, despite being their superior and the one who taught them their ways.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Doesn't appear to be that much of a threat during her first few appearances, but once she discovers who is holding two of the talismans...
- Oh, Crap!: Multiple times. When she found herself surrounded by Sailor Guardians (with the addition of an exasperated "You too?" when Sailor Venus added herself to the list of supposed civilians who had just transformed), when she found out that Sailor Neptune is Immune to Bullets, and when she discovered her car was sabotaged.
- Old Maid: The rest of the Witches 5 call her an old lady in the anime, likely due to this trope.
- One-Winged Angel: Manga only. After Sailor Mars destroys her human form, she reveals her gorgon-like Daimon form before being destroyed by Sailor Moon. Curiously, this was adapted out of Crystal.
- Playing with Fire: This was a mere Informed Ability in the manga. In the anime, she used two weapons of her own design that could shoot fire. Crystal expands her fight with Mars and Jupiter and shows her attacking with fire magic.
- Rapid-Fire Typing: In the anime she spends most of her time in front of a computer doing this when not out looking for Pure Hearts, and can even do so with one hand!
- Running Gag: In the anime, her car would always pop out from increasingly absurd places, ranging from the subway (first time) to the elephants cage at the zoo (the episode where she targeted Minako).
- Stock Shoujo Bullying Tactics: In a rather memorable scene, her locker is vandalized by Mimete and filled with her much hated snails.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She hates snails. This eventually leads to her downfall because Mimete not only tampers with her car, but puts some snails in the brakes to make her panic more.
Mimete/Mimi Hanyu
Mimete
Mimete voiced by: Mika Kanai (first anime), Yuki Nagaku (Crystal) (JP), Catherine Disher (Cloverway), Kira Buckland (Viz) (EN) Foreign VAs
Portrayed in the musicals by: Shiori Honda, Aki Kudou, Ayaka Ida
- Adaptational Badass: In Crystal, she holds her own in battle a little better than she did in the manga, even creating her own Daimons instead of having to beg Kaolinite for them.
- Adaptational Wimp: She was extremely weak in the anime, incapable of doing much more than standing behind Daimons and launching the occasional noise-based attack.
- Bag of Holding: She carries the Daimons she summons on a suitcase. How does Professor Tomoe fits them there?
- Barely-Changed Dub Name: The Cloverway version removed the "e" from her name to call her "Mimet".
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Eudial outright describes her as such, stating that she acts cute and innocent on the outside to hide her true nature.
- Butt-Monkey: Not as much as Eudial, but still there, especially since she's far more of a bungler.
- Charm Person: Her specialty magic according to the Materials Collection, but while her attack is called Charm Buster, it doesn't really work that way in any adaptation.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Not only does she kill Eudial to take her job, but she also tried to sabotage Tellu after finding out she was getting replaced.
- Clipped-Wing Angel: In her last stand against the Sailor Guardians in the 90s, Mimete uses one of Eudial's inventions to transport herself into a theater screen, amplifying her powers tenfold. Just as it looks like an epic battle is about to begin, Tellu appears from the shadows and literally pulls the plug on Mimete before she even gets to attack.
- Death by Irony: She used Eudial’s machine to give herself tremendous power, but she was ultimately powerless when it came to preventing her death via that same machine getting it's plug pulled.
- The Ditz: Is easily the flakiest and most scatterbrained of the Witches 5.
- Even the Girls Want Her: In the manga and Crystal before knowing that she is an enemy Minako completely idolizes her and even hearts form in her eyes when sees she in her concert.
- Evil Counterpart: To Usagi/Sailor Moon in the 90s anime. Both are clumsly, seemingly incompetent crybabies who don't take their mission very seriously. Mimete even interrupts the "Next Episode" preview to introduce herself as a clumsy crybaby worthy of sympathy just like Usagi did in the very first episode of the series. In the Manga, Crystal and Musicals, she's this to Venus instead, being an evil idol in orange contrasting Venus' dream of being one while also in orange.
- Evil Diva: She's an Idol Singer in the manga and Crystal, where she goes under the name Mimi Hanyu and uses her popularity as an idol to brainwash her audience. In the 90s anime, she is merely an idol wannabe.
- Fake Cutie: This is truly prominent in Crystal. She usually looks like this◊, then shifts to THIS◊.
- Fate Worse than Death: In the anime, she is left trapped inside a machine. Since she was converted to energy, and energy can't be destroyed, that means it's an eternal sentencing for her.
- Fangirl: In the 90s anime, Mimete tends to attack her favorite idols. By her logic, people who are successful and beloved have to possess very bright Pure Hearts.
- Go-Karting with Bowser: With Minako when they both compete in an Idol contest for an episode.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In the anime, she ends up trapped in the very machine she was about to use to lay the smackdown on the Sailor Guardians, which was invented by Eudial, the colleague she'd murdered.
- Hypocrite: In the 90s anime, Mimete murders Eudial because she's tired of the latter's repeated failures. The catch is that Mimete herself isn't really interested in her mission more than she is in meeting her idols or becoming a celebrity. She ultimately turns out to be the most useless member of the Witches 5.
- In one episode of the first anime, she calls herself "a good girl who has done nothing wrong". The camera immediately cuts to a picture of Eudial.
- Idol Singer: In the manga and Crystal, she poses as a popular idol as an easy way to brainwash her audiences into obeying her. In the 90s anime she's more of an idol wannabe who targets her favorite idols, and in one episode she seriously considers leaving the Death Busters to become a real idol but quickly reverts back to evil after losing an idol competition to Minako.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: As said in Hypocrite, Mimete proves to be the most useless and inept member of the Witches 5.
- Ironic Echo: The machine she ends up trapped in was built by Eudial, whom she killed. In essence, it's Eudial's final laugh from beyond the grave.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Mimete previously killed Eudial in order to steal her position. Down the line, she tries to steal Tellu's position. In her "final battle" against the Sailor Senshi, Mimete uses an experimental device that would amplify her powers, but is unaware of its most fatal flaw. A scorned Tellu shows up and informs Mimete the reason why Eudial never used the device was because anyone inside will be trapped for eternity in another dimension if it were unplugged, and lo and behold, Tellu has said plug in hand. Mimete immediately begs her not to do it, but is met with deaf ears as Tellu literally pulls the plug on her.
- The Load: Is the weakest of the Witches 5 in both the manga and anime. In the manga, she has to beg Kaolinite for reinforcements once she realizes she is no match for the Sailor Guardians, and in the anime she was more interested in pursuing her celebrity crushes than actually getting any work done for the Death Busters.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Mimete actually screwed things up for the Death Busters pretty badly by killing Eudial. Since Eudial had discovered the identities of all of the Sailor Guardians and knew that Sailor Moon had the Holy Grail, the Death Busters could have staged an all-out attack against her to obtain the grail instead of resorting to collecting Pure Hearts as an energy source for Mistress 9. But with Eudial dead no one else learned this information, so the Death Busters ended up not making much progress during her tenure.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: As incompetent as Mimete was, there were a few rare instances that showed she could be truly dangerous when provoked.
- Redemption Rejection: She seriously considers leaving the Death Busters to pursue her dream of becoming an idol and even develops a brief friendship with Minako. Sadly this doesn't last, as she quickly goes back to her evil ways after losing the competition.
- Psychopathic Man Child: With emphasis on the "child", which all the more could make her a serious threat.
- Spared by the Adaptation: She's technically still alive in the 90s anime, but considering her fate, she likely wishes she were dead.
- Or maybe not; Mugen Academy is later destroyed by Pharaoh 90, which presumably destroys the machine she would be trapped inside as well, very much echoing Jadeite's similar fate on both counts.
- Stalker with a Crush: How she sometimes acts with her targets in the first anime. This is especially prominent during her debut, where she planned to deliver a box of homemade cakes to her movie star target and later acts as though they're in a relationship. Her incredibly hammy internal dialog reads "I am destined to be the one to take your pure heart, so please, give up on this romance."
- Stock Shoujo Bullying Tactics: Fills Eudial's locker with snails and hides a thumbtack in her slippers.
- Verbal Tic: In the Cloverway Dub, she has a tendency to say "Ta-ta" to close out her sentences. Deconstructed later when it actually gives her away to Telulu when she abuses Eugeal's voice machine to impersonate Dr. Tomoe, and is thrown back in her face in the worst way.
- Villains Out Shopping: Moreso than the others, due to her being more interested in pursuing her own hobbies than actually furthering the goals of her organization.
- Woman Scorned: One actor she targeted in the 90s anime caught her ire because his soap opera character broke up with someone on the show. Mimete got so angry she threw the TV at the wall and decided to steal his heart as revenge for "breaking hers."
Tellu/Lulu Teruno
Tellu
Tellu voiced by: Chieko Honda (first anime), Naomi Ozora (Crystal) (JP), Julie Lemieux (Cloverway), Laura Post (Viz) (EN) Foreign VAs
Portrayed in the musicals by: Mio Nunokawa, Akiko Iwasaki, Momoko Sadachi
- Adaptational Badass: In Crystal she is more powerful, proving nearly invincible until Sailor Pluto shows up.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: The pearl details in her manga outfit are removed entirely in the '90s anime (likely to simplify animation). In Crystal, they're redesigned to look more like leaves growing on a vine.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She was seemingly friends with Mimete as the two are seen gossiping with each other and even play Twister on their time off, but doesn't think twice about subjecting Mimete to a Fate Worse than Death when she finds out she betrayed her.
- Clipped-Wing Angel: In the anime, right after she transforms one of her Telluns into a Hyper Tellun and is about to leave the Sailor Guardians to deal with it, she gets caught in a freak accident and is killed alongside the plant. Her Daimon form in the manga doesn't last long either, getting quickly vaporized by Sailor Pluto.
- Combat Tentacles: She can attack by extending vines from her wrists.
- Dub Name Change: Her name is slightly changed to "Telulu" in the Cloverway Dub.
- Energy Absorption: In Crystal, she absorbs Sailor Moon's and Chibi Moon's attacks, allowing her to transform into a Daimon.
- Evil Counterpart: Since she uses flowers for evil, she ends up being this to Tuxedo Mask in the anime. He's even the one who technically defeats her. In the manga, she is this to Sailor Jupiter.
- Green Thumb: She breeds parasitic flowers called "Telluns" and uses them to extract Pure Hearts (or Hostes, in the manga) from her victims, and can also attack by growing tendrils from her wrists.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In the anime, she ends up being killed by her own monster plant.
- Ironic Echo: The Cloverway dub included this when she gets her job back. Telulu figures out Mimet is impersonating Dr. Tomoe when "he" signs off with "Ta-ta." As Telulu pulls the plug on Mimette, she says "Ta-ta, Mimette" as a way to rub Mimette's slip in her face.
- Meaningful Name: Her name comes from the mineral tellurite or tellurium, which is derived from the latin word tellus, Latin for earth. Plants are often considered subset of earth power in classical elements. She has plant-based powers.
- One-Winged Angel: In Crystal, she transforms into a plant monster just like in the manga.
- Petal Power: In Crystal, she can create a shield of flower petals which she uses to absorb attacks.
- Plant Mooks: Employs these to carry out her Evil Plan. Her Daimon form in the manga also appears to have been this.
- Shock and Awe: Like her counterpart Sailor Jupiter, she uses both plant and electric-based attacks. Best exemplified in the animes. In the 90s anime, she channeled it through her vines while in Crystal, she uses Mandragora Buster.
Viluy/Yui Bido
Viluy
Viluy voiced by: Yoshino Takamori (first anime), Rina Honnizumi (Crystal) (JP), Susan Aceron (Cloverway), Julie Ann Taylor (under Cricket Brown) (EN) Foreign VAs
Portrayed in the musicals by: Nao Futatsugi, Yuka Kawahura, Yui Hasegawa
- Alas, Poor Villain: After her death, Ami pities her for only believing in machines rather than in human emotions.
- An Ice Person: The Materials Collection says she could control ice, but this is never shown in the manga or both anime. Given that said collection contained a lot of prototype material that never made it into the final product, this is likely not canon.
- Dub Name Change: Is named "Byruit" in the Cloverway dub.
- Emotionless Girl: Firmly believes that emotions are a hindrance to the pursuit of science.
- Evil Genius: Befitting of an Evil Counterpart of Ami, Viluy is a technological genius.
- Evil Teacher: Although a student at Infinity Academy, she is allowed to teach due to her high grades. Ami quickly points out that grades do not necessary make a good teacher, for a teacher must also be empathetic of students who fare less well academically.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Like the anime version of Eudial, she preferred to rely on technology rather than magic.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: In the manga, Sailor Uranus's attack actually cuts her in half. This isn't shown in Crystal, for obvious reasons.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In the anime. Just like Tellu, her own creation kills her after Sailor Moon's attack causes it to malfunction.
- Irony: Viluy treats Kaolinite with open disdain, however, in the episode following Viluy's death, Kaolinite successfully completes the task that was assigned to Viluy, by getting a pure heart that will awake Mistress 9.
- Nanomachines: Uses nanobots to extract Pure Hearts (or Hostes, in the manga) through computer systems as well as in combat. She controls them with the bracelet on her wrist.
- No Body Left Behind: After being dissolved by her nanobots in the anime.
- The Rival: To Ami. Notably, she is the only member of the Witches 5 whose rivalry with her Sailor counterpart is kept in all adaptations, thanks to her plot-line in the anime being more or less the same as in the manga.
- Smug Snake: Easily the most arrogant of the Witches 5.
- Techno Wizard: With a little more emphasis on the "techno", since she uses nanomachines, as opposed to magic.
Cyprine and Ptilol
Cyprine and Ptilol
Cyprine voiced by: Yuriko Fuchizaki (first anime), Umeka Shoji (Crystal) (JP), Susan Aceron (Cloverway), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (under Johanna Luis) (Viz) (EN) Foreign VAs
Portrayed in the musicals by: Michiho Matsumoto, Saeri Amano, Maana
Ptilol voiced by: Rumi Kasahara (JP), Susan Aceron (Cloverway), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (under Johanna Luis) (Viz) (EN) Foreign VAs
- An Ice Person: In the manga and Crystal, Cyprine creates a hailstorm that causes everyone in town to become violent and destructive.
- Compelling Voice: In the original anime, Cyprine can seemingly hypnotize the students of Infinity Academy with her voice, and forces them all to sacrifice their Pure Hearts.
- Creepy Twins: Ptilol is actually an extension of Cyprine's powers, and only comes out during battle.
- Divided We Fall: In the manga and Crystal, they try to invoke this between the Inner and Outer Guardians. See Emotion Control below.
- Emotion Control: Cyprine's magic can exacerbate the dark and negative emotions in people. She uses this to her advantage by turning the animosity between the Inner and Outer Guardians into violent hatred, making them fight one another.
- Energy Absorption: In the anime, their main shtick was that they could absorb the attacks of the Inner Guardians to strengthen their own.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Cyprine's glasses have one round lense and a pointy lense.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The Inner Guardians exploit their ability to absorb attacks and then trick them into blasting each other.
- Irony: Cyprine's disdain for Kaolinite is ironic for the same reason as Viluy's was: in the end, Kaolinite ends up successfully completing a task she failed, by getting a pure heart crystal that will awake Mistress 9.
- Knight of Cerebus: While the other Witches 5 had some affable qualities, especially Eudial and Mimete, Cyprine is much more serious and, along with Ptilol, proves nearly unstoppable to the Sailor Guardians. Since their episode is also the episode in which Mistress 9 awakens, they help to set up the tone for the rest of the season finale.
- One-Hit Kill: In the anime, they mention being able to do this. They weren't lying, which led to their own demise.
- Mutual Kill: In the anime, the Senshi trick Cyprine and Petirol into firing their attacks onto each other, killing both of them simultaneously.
- Palette Swap: In appearance, Ptilol is a mirrored version of Cyprine, with red hair and black and red clothing, in contrast to Cyprine's blue and black color scheme.
- Phlebotinum Overload: Part of how they meet their demise in the 90s anime.
- The Power of Hate: What solidifies Cyprine as Sailor Moon'# counterpart in the Witches 5 is that, while Sailor Moon is empowered by her love and trust in her friends, Cyprine exploits the feelings of resentment and hatred in a person's heart and uses it to overwhelm their enemies.
- Smug Snake: Not as much as Viluy, but Cyprine does have good reason to consider herself the most powerful of the Witches 5.
- Spell My Name With An S: Ptilol has had many names over the years, such as Petirol, Petrol, or Petit Roll.
- Super Power Lottery: In the anime, their list of powers includes and isn't limited to: levitation, teleportation, energy projection, energy absorption, mind control, and trapping others in another dimension.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: In the original anime, Cyprine gets the least development of the Witches 5.
Others
Daimons
Daimons
- Affably Evil: Some of the ones that show up are this, which is very unique compared to the other types of the minions the others use.
- Alphabetical Theme Naming: All of Mimete's Daimons have their names start with the letter "U."
- Animal Motifs: Mimete's Daimons have a cormorant motif. The "U" at the beginning of their names come from the Japanese word 鵜飼い (ukai; cormorant fishing). The way they steal Pure Hearts is similar to how cormorants catch fish. Whenever they are defeated by Super Sailor Moon's Rainbow Moon Heartache, their Daimon pods break, releasing a shadow in the shape of the bird.
- The Berserker: If Rangy is to be believed, a Daimon without direction will attack everyone, taking Pure Hearts randomly. This is proven in the final episode of S wherein a single surviving Daimon merges with the Professor Tomoe's oven like device and begins indiscriminately taking Pure Hearts for itself.
- Body Horror: In the manga and Crystal, see Lighter and Softer bellow.
- Blob Monster: What Daimons look like without an object or person to possess. A very nightmarish example in the manga.
- Cats Are Mean: A Daimon created from a cat and Nekonerru from the 90s anime, who was created from a jigsaw puzzle of a cat.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: U-Ikasaman challenges the Guardians to rigged games in exchange for their freedom. Thankfully the Guardians were smart enough to clarify that she only needs to be beaten once, even if she doesn't hold up to that.
- Creating Life Is Bad: Apparently, alien technology can create an army of monsters that make the Youma and Droids look feeble.
- Deadpan Snarker: U-Tahime's response to Mimete's claim that the audience they're attacking is wowed by her performance is that they're actually in pain.
- Demonic Possession: They mostly possess humans and animals in the manga and Crystal. This is also addressed in the anime, but they usually possess inanimate objects during the main story line.
- Dub Name Change: Averted. While the overall organization is referred to as "The Heart Snatchers," the Daimon keep their species name. However, while the Cloverway Dub kept the pronunciation "Die-mon" from the original Japanese version, the Viz dub changed it to "Day-mun."
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Some Daimons are played this way, taking the form of attractive, if obviously inhuman, girls with unnatural skin tones. A notable example is U-Pasokon, whose Victim of the Week even gets a Crush Blush upon being attacked by her.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Daimon U-Tomodachi. Take note that "tomodachi" is the Japanese word for "friend".
- Kiss of Death: Mimete's Daimons remove heart crystals this way. Then swallow them.
- Knight of Cerebus: Unlike the other Daimons, the unnamed Daimon and Rangy are played dead seriously.
- Lighter and Softer: Daimons depicted in the manga and Crystal are mostly Body Horror-riffic attempts by the Starfish Alien Daimon Eggs fusing into host bodies, resulting in the host body being mutated into an evolutionary throwback. They had Combat Tentacles, Vagina Dentata and Bizarre Alien Biology. Except for the one that appeared during Uranus's flashback, the Daimons in the 90 anime are all humanoid females that get increasingly goofy as the season went on.
- Meaningful Name: Many of the Daimons' names live up to the object they were created from and, for some, their personalities and motives.
- Mix-and-Match Critter: U-Ikasaman looked like she was made up of various board and card games thrown together, a result of Mimete shoving whatever she could into the daimon oven.
- Musical Assassin: Octave's shrill scream can incapacitate normal humans with ease, Chikuon uses a phonograph to fire solid-rock musical notes, and Evil Diva U-tahime fights primarily by singing.
- Non-Lethal K.O.: Possibly; a spirit is seen escaping when they're defeated, indicating they may have just been banished than outright destroyed.
- Not So Harmless: The first two anime Daimons, Mikuji and Nekonerru. Both took out all the Guardians, and Mikuji was responsible for Usagi's transformation being undone and the reason she needed a power up. They were only defeated by A: Uranus and Neptune stepping in to stop Mikuji, and B: Usagi receiving her new transformation brooch and weapon for the third season, which properly allowed her to beat Nekonerru. After that, the Daimon start getting significantly less threatening, although some of them still put up a decent fight Note.
- Oh, Crap!: As always, whenever one of them realizes that she's about to get hit by Sailor Moon's attack.
- One-Gender Race: Female in the 90s anime. Strangely, the one possessing Prof. Tomoe seems male, and the unnamed Daimon didn't seem to have a gender at all.
- Pet the Dog: U-Ndokai briefly stops when she sees an ill Hotaru and advises her on where to go if she's not well... unfortunately for her, this is one of those moments where Hotaru is channeling Mistress 9 and U-Ndokai gets blown away for her troubles. Fortunately, she was saved thanks to the shell on her back.
- Post-Climax Confrontation: Well, Pharaoh 90 has been defeated and the world is saved. Wait... what's that Daimon seed doing with the Daimon-making oven?
- Punny Name: Many of their names are puns. For example, U-Estern's name resembles the english word "Western", fitting her Wild West theme.
- Safety Gear Is Cowardly: Averted. The Anime Daimons are strangely safety-conscious and vocal about it. Daimon Steering actually asks if Haruka and Michiru have good insurance after they drop Haruka's motorcycle on her, and Cenicienta carries a warranty for a new arm taped to her skirt. Dovlin perhaps best exemplifies it- she panics when forced into a pool without her inner tubes.
- Something about a Rose: U-Baulla is a yellow rose-based Daimon. Tuxedo Mask actually accuses her of stealing his gimmick.
- Technical Pacifist: U-Ikasaman doesn't fight the Guardians because she claims she abhors violence despite being a villain. That doesn't stop her from making them play rigged games that tend to explode when the Guardians lose.
- Theme Naming: The names of all the Daimons summoned by Mimete in the anime start with U-.
- Villains Want Mercy: U-Baulla in the Cloverway dub feebly begs to be spared from Rainbow Moon Heartache. She's not.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: Mikuuji and U-Estern - The former could counter Sailor Moon's Moon Princess Halation and caused her to detransform, while the latter intercepted Moon Spiral Heart Attack, and outright tanked both Uranus' World Shaking and Neptune's Deep Submerge, which killed Mikuuji herself.
- Zerg Rush: Towards the climax of the 90s anime, all created Daimon eggs are hatched without anything to posses. The red blob monsters travel en masse to attack the Sailor Guardians.
