History Characters / SailorMoonDeathBusters

* AdaptationalHeroism: 90s anime. Also an AdaptationalNiceGuy. To start with he is a Type II AntiVillain 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 BenevolentBoss; see that entry for more information. Finally, he is a {{Good Parent|s}} who cares about Hotaru, even when evil. It really seem like the only reason he became evil is because [[spoiler:of his DemonicPossession.]] 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 MadScientist trying to wipe out humanity who used his own daughter for his experiments in his own selfish motives.

* TranshumanTreachery: Though in the anime [[spoiler: [[TragicMonster he didn't have a choice]].]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: She gives Kaolinite a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness moment. Given how abusive Kaolinite was to Hotaru, it's almost revenge by proxy.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Kaori, Kaorinite, Kaori Nite, Kaori, Kaoli Night, or Kaori Night?

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 groups 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.

!!Eudial (Eugeal)

!!Mimete (Mimet)

!!Tellu (Telulu)

!!Viluy (Byruit)

!!Cyprine and Ptilol (Cyprin and Petirol)

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!!Cyprine and Ptilol

* Terraform: The ultimate goal of the Death Busters once Pharaoh 90 fully manifests on Earth.

!!Eudial

!!Mimete

!!Tellu

!!Viluy

** 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 [[OmnicidalManiac for its own sake.]]

* DiabolusExNihilo: In the 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.

* EldritchAbomination: In the manga he doesn't even seem to have a corporeal form, appearing as a void of darkness with a pair of glowing "eyes" as its only identifiable features. In the 90s anime, he looks either like a planet or a swirling mass of dark energy.
* FusionDance: In the manga, with Mistress 9.
* GeniusLoci: His goal in the manga, where he planned to merge with the Earth and make it their "second mother planet".
* GreaterScopeVillain: For most of the anime, he isn't a driving, active force - he's just there, waiting to be uncanned.

* SealedEvilInACan: Is stuck inside his home dimension, the Tau Nebula, until Mistress 9 can open a gateway to our reality for him either through the Holy Grail (the '90s anime) or Chibi-Usa's Silver Crystal (the manga).

* YourSoulIsMine: Has been feeding on human "Hosts" to regain his strength in the manga.

Underlings of the Death Busters, tasked with collecting human souls in the manga or pure hearts in the anime adaptation. In the manga they are perfect Daimons who serve Kaolinite, but in the anime are implied to be human and under Professor Tomoe's payroll.

* BodyHorror: In the manga, see LighterAndSofter bellow.

* CatsAreMean: Nekonerru, who is part cat and part jigsaw puzzle.

* DemonicPossession: They mostly possess humans and animals in the manga. This is also addressed in the anime, but they usually possess inanimate objects during the main story line.

* LighterAndSofter: Manga Daimons are the BodyHorror-riffic failed fusion of an extra-dimensional StarfishAlien with a life-form from our universe. They had CombatTentacles, VaginaDentata and BizarreAlienBiology. Except for the one that appeared during Uranus's flashback, all Anime Daimon are women instead, and while not useless they get increasingly goofy as the season went on.

* OneGenderRace: Female. [[spoiler: Strangely, the one possessing Prof. Tomoe seems male]], and the unnamed Daimon didn't seem to have a gender at all.

* ZergRush: Towards the climax of the anime season, all created Daimon eggs are hatched without anything to posses. The red blob monsters travel en masse to attack the Sailor Guardians.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: In the anime, he was TheProfessor and he cared more genuinely for Hotaru than in the manga, but was driven towards the DespairEventHorizon in the freak lab incident that obliterated his wife and assistants and severely injured both him and Hotaru. [[spoiler:He only agreed to serve Pharaoh 90 when offered a DealWithTheDevil that would save the dying little girl, not knowing that [[FromBadToWorse it would get worse]].]]

* GeekyTurnOn: Oh, those labcoats and glasses!
* GreenEyedMonster: In the anime, this seems to be the main reason for their constant backstabbing.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the anime, damn near all of them end up getting killed this way.

* NoHonorAmongThieves: Nope. None at all, in the anime. They all want the glory for themselves, and don't care what they have to go through to get it, even each other.
* NonIndicativeName: Even after the sixth witch, Ptilol, is revealed, they're still called the Witches 5. This is because Ptilol is an extension of Cyprine and they count as one witch.
* PsychoRangers: 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.

* ThePowerOfHate: What solidifies Cyprine as Sailor's 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.

* EvilCounterpart: Since she uses flowers for evil, she ends up being this to Tuxedo Mask in the anime. [[spoiler: He's even the one who technically defeats her]]. In the manga, she is this to Sailor Jupiter.

* AscendedExtra: 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.

* MagicStaff: Each member carriers one to use their spells.

* RunningGag: The sign on the door of their office reading "Witches 5". After [[spoiler: 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 [[spoiler: 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 [[spoiler: Tellu and Viluy bite it]], but we can assume the same thing does.

* SafetyGearIsCowardly: 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.

* DubNameChange: "Heart Snatchers" in the nineties dub.