Something I want to clear up · 4:58am Jul 11th, 2022
A while back, I can't remember where, I mentioned that Sailor Moon gave me my interest in the kind of villain defeat that King Sombra, the Storm King, and G1's Tirek and Lavan got.
And someone commented on how stupid I am for it, mentioning that lots of villains reformed too and that Sailor Moon barely killed any that were neither Monsters of the Week nor final antagonists, and there were special circumstances regarding the commanders she did kill, Malachite (Kunzite) and Emerald (Esmeraude).
Well, there are four things to consider.
1.) I only saw the first season before that flame ignited. I got into R, S, and Super S many, many years later AFTER catching the sexist disease, renouncing it, and then, in high school years, being led back to it by a dream as if by divine intervention. That said, R and Super S have the most redemptions, the only redemption in Season 1 was Neflite (Nephrite).
2.) It doesn't really matter to me whether Sailor Moon was the one who killed them or not.
3.) That said, the MotW's themselves stand. The way they're disintegrated at the end I thought was awesome. And finishing the season with Queen Beryl herself.
Lastly, and perhaps most important of all:
4.) I was really young back then. Like, early elementary school, maybe earlier, I can't remember.