Whether you call her Usagi or Serena and him Mamoru or Darien , the love between Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask is one of anime ’s most far-famed romances . This is despite the fact that Tuxedo Mask sucks . Yes , Sailor Moon ’s dash “ zep ” is in fact a terrible person , and here are 10 reasons why .
1 ) He dates girls who are right smart too youthful for him .
By which we intend he ’s a boundary line statutory raper . It ’s less creepy-crawly later on when Mamoru is 19 and Usagi is 16 — although that ’s still a bit uncomfortably airless to age of being ineffectual to consent — but at the start of the serial , Mamoru is a 17 - twelvemonth - old college scholar ( accord to the manga ) and Usagi is a 14 - year - old middle school day student . That ’s just amiss . And it emphatically does n’t assist that Usagi acts significantly young and immature for her years and Mamoru wearing apparel like a 28 - twelvemonth - previous investment banker .
Now , you might say , “ Laaaaaaaaauren , Rooooooooooob , Usagi is Mamoru ’s one true reincarnated love . Surely we can crouch silly old age rule for that . ” Perhaps , but Usagi is n’t the only young’un that Mamoru dates . He actually go out with Rei for a while ( although , granted , she pushed him into it at first ) , think minor girls are just his case . Look , you ’re in college , dude . Stop fall around middle schools attend for your “ renew moon queen , ” okay ?
2 ) He was actually a huge asshole to Sailor Moon for a farseeing meter .
You jazz , for all that Usagi is Mamoru ’s eternal dependable love , he was an enormous asshole to the young Sailor Scout . Before Mamoru regain his memories and realized that he was actually Tuxedo Mask , he and Usagi fought like cat and Queen Beryl ’s minion Shitennou . He ’s forever pick apart her down emotionally , telling her that she ’s not pretty and that she has no inner beauty , either . That ’s insanely rough , and that ’s not to mention his moniker for her is “ Bun Head ” ( that ’s “ Meatball Head ” to us English utterer ) and makes playfulness of her lousy test scores .
Now sure , Usagi snipes at him a bit , too . But countenance ’s not forget that Mamoru is a 17 year - erstwhile college student pick on a 14 - year - old girlfriend . And even though he acquire nicer as the serial continue , particularly after his computer storage return , he plainly felt totally ok scornful and belittle a teenage girl for no unmistakable reason other than to be cruel . What a hawkshaw .
3 ) He ’s lousy in a combat .
Tuxedo Mask exists for one intellect : Help the Sailor Scouts . Sometimes that signify rescuing them , sometimes it intend giving them advice , sometimes it intend fighting along side them . Mamoru is terrible at all three of these things , and spends most of his appearance get his fanny kicked and even occasionally kill , wedge Sailor Moon and the other Scouts to save him instead . He ’s not help them at all ; his appearance unremarkably just cook the Scouts ’ job harder .
Part of the job is that Tuxedo Mask ’s fighting art boils down to two moves : throw roses and carrying people to safety . Now we ’re not allege that rose - throwing is n’t helpful ; he does deal to damage the occasional energy - go down on gadget . But he has a inclination to pounce in , give his rose , and then peace out . At some point , he does begin using a cane ( because everything has to be black tie - themed ) , but it ’s not super useful against , you know , literal weapons . Few suppose superheroes could benefit from a soldierlike arts year or two as Tuxedo Mask — boxing , tae kwon do , fencing — hell , we ’ll take pillow fighting at this peak . ( This parody filmperfectly points out Tuxedo Mask ’s utter uselessness . )
4 ) He ’s even terrible at providing moral bread and butter .
For exemplar , the first clip that Mamoru and Usagi meet as Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon , she is call because she ’s have fuss defeating Morga . Tuxedo Mask tells her , “ You must commend , weep is n’t croak to figure out any of your problems . “ First off , have you ever had someone tell you to hold on crying ? It just makes you shout more . And that ’s exactly what take place . Sailor Moon just cries intemperately . majuscule advice , asshole .
But here ’s the kicker — Sailor Moon discovers her crying is SUPERPOWERED . In fact , her crying helps her vote down Morga , because it basically turn into ultrasonic wave with help from her hair thingies , which knock Morga out . So not only did Tuxedo Mask screw up on a canonical emotional reinforcement level , he actually give her the precise wrong advice . yell literally solved Sailor Moon ’s problem . “ Aha ! ” you say . “ But what if that was Tuxedo Mask ’s plan all along ? ” Nope , it was n’t .
5 ) He dress like the ’ 90s give up on him .
depend , we get it . The 1990s were not anyone ’s fashion apex . But wearing lavender pleated - front pant , apparently of your own free will ? ( We think Usagi is making the right brass here . ) The truly inauspicious thing is that this seems to be his favored outfit . If you postulate further proof of his aggressively horrible sentience of style , Buzzfeed made a list of Mamoru ’s crimes against fashion .
Plus , there was his Moonlight Knight getup , shown above . Is this racialist ? It seems like it ’s racist . Every time we bet at it , we call back of those “ We ’re a civilisation , not a costume ” ads . Even when he ’s suffering from a memory wipe , Mamoru manages to suck . The one pro ? At least this incarnation of Mamoru has an existent sword .
6 ) He ’s essentially an tremendous liability to the entire Sailor Scout military operation .
If Tuxedo Mask ca n’t struggle , and he ’s frightful at give the Sailor Scouts advice , what can he do ? Two matter : Get nobble and/or brainwashed .
Okay , this is probably the point of the entire serial , a transposition of the usual heroic function , where Sailor Moon is the Heron andTuxedo Mask is the damoiselle in hurt . But Tuxedo Mask does n’t just want the periodic save , he ’s in constant need of rescue . He ’s dead resistless to kidnappers , having been take by enemy of Sailor Moon , by would - be lovers , by a puerility acquaintanceship , even by his own girl . Even Liam Neeson ’s daughter in Taken put up a expert fight , and she ’s not supposed to be a secret superhero .
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When he ’s not getting snared in the thug - of - the - week ’s forget me drug , he ’s getting stab , killed , and/or turned into evil version of himself and sent to try and destroy the Sailor Scouts . I signify , he ’s terrible at it , because Tuxedo Mask is terrible , but still , the Scouts would have been capable to defeat their enemies so much easier if Mamoru had n’t been around to lodge in their metre and imagination . And speaking of …
7 ) He ’s actually a more effectual hero when he ’s evil .
Tuxedo Mask may do very little in a fight when he ’s Sailor Moon ’s friend , but after Queen Beryl brainwashes him in season one , he ’s suddenly one of Dark Kingdom ’s generals . He call himself “ Prince Endymion ” and actually becomes rather fearsome in his manner . Perversely , he ’s almost helpful to the Sailor Senshi , since he wo n’t shoot down them due to his linger feelings for Usagi . Plus , while he ’s now evil , he ’s not totally patriotic to Beryl , and occasionally decide to queer her plans . To tot up up : Evil Tuxedo Mask is a more suvccessful hero than regular Tuxedo Mask . It help oneself that when he ’s one of Queen Beryl ’s minion , hoi polloi are n’t sample to capture or vote out him , which means the Sailor Scouts do n’t have to waste their fourth dimension trying to protect him .
- He subvert his relationship with Usagi from the future just to be a jerk .
At one point in Sailor Moon R , Mamoru has a recurring dream where Usagi dies because of their relationship , and he resolve to break up with her . It ’s forced play , but Mamoru frequently has prophetical pipe dream , so it ’s a minuscule reasonable . Less reasonable is Mamoru ’s handling of the breakup , which he manages to make as frightful as possible for all concern . It would be too much for him to , you know , tell Usagi what ’s run on with this dream business . After all , she ’s a darned superhero with a team of superheroes at her back and a couple of Einstein kat alien . They could probably figure something out . But no , he has to go with the classic “ I ’m belong to protect you by say I was never in love with you ” gambit , basically so Usagi can sense as emotionally devastated as possible . It lasts 16 agonizing episodes .
And here ’s the most mad part : Mamoru sent the dreams to himself . Or rather , his future self , King Endymion , sent the dreams back in time to Mamoru , so as to try out his erotic love for Usagi . For no good goddamned ground other than the fact that even in the future , Tuxedo Mask is an enormous dickhole .
9 ) His super disturbing relationship with his girl .
Sixty episodes into Sailor Moon R , there was a newfangled addition to the cast — Chibiusa , a.k.a . Sailor Mini - Moon . She ’s Mamoru and Usagi ’s daughter from the time to come , ostensibly do back to search the Sailor Scouts aid for something . We say ostensibly because her real use seems to be having sex with her future Fatherhood . you could see above their first meeting , when she cockblocks her own mom to slip a candy kiss for dear old dada .
Chibiusa has a disturbed Electra building complex , and she flirts unashamedly with the untested incarnation of her dad . Technically Mamoru does n’t know that Chibiusa is his daughter at first ( although , at least in the anime , he seems suspicious when Chibiusa first come out and allege that her hairstyle is sit on her female parent ’s ) , but Mamoru still does n’t put an quick stop to this highly inappropriate behavior , which he should have done even if he remember it was a random five - year - previous essay mack on him . In fact , in the manga , this happen :
NOPE NOPE NOPE . And this is to say nothing of the fact that Future Mamoru somehow knew his girl was function to be screwed up in this manner , and either allowed it or help it , as opposed to having a cleft team of minor psychologists wait for her the second she cash in one’s chips Usagi ’s birth canal . No admiration she grow into the vicious Black Lady for a while ( who , like everyone else , also kidnap Tuxedo Mask . Sigh ) .
10 ) HE ’S NOT EVEN WEARING A GODDAMNED black tie .
Mamoru wears awhite tie dinner party suit , not atuxedo . We approximate “ White Tie Mask ” does n’t have the same ring to it , but COME ON . That ’s like if Captain America was Canadian or something . Either put on a blasted tuxedo or choose a different superhero name , asshole .
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