All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XVII

[Bob Schroeck]

Well, just to kick things off, here's the fragmentary page I worked up last night:

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''[[Sailor Moon Expanded]]'' was an impressive [[Fan Verse]] project from the 1990s. The writings of over a dozen authors were combined with the goal of adding new and interesting characters, stories, and information to the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' universe without contradicting established [[Canon]] (as defined by the original animated series). In many instances, particularly in the works of Mark Latus, the expanded material is more interesting and concise than the original source. Its stories ranged from before the fall of the Silver Millennium to the Crystal Tokyo era.

It demonstrates a few idiosyncrasies that can be linked to the era it was written in, a few of which resulted in some of the most inspired writing in the series. For instance, while the writers knew the basic outline of the early ''Sailor V'' manga (not to confused with the later [[Adaptation Expansion]], ''[[Codename: Sailor V]]''), they had precious few details and created their own villain for Sailor V to have fought -- Calcite, the human-appearing youma leader, who turned out to be not nearly as evil as he appeared, and the leader of the Dark Kingdom Renegades.

There are several main arcs to ''SME'':


# The Dark Kingdom Renegades
## Bogosity
# Magnesite
# Trenchcoat Mask





The ''Sailor Moon Expanded'' project is sadly long dead. A [[Wayback Machine]] archive of the stories can be found [http://web.archive.org/web/2005041810594...o.net/SME/ here].


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* [[Alien Lunch]]: In the Crystal Tokyo era, humanoid youma Titanite (aka "Sailor Polaris") runs a restaurant that specializes in the cuisine of the Dark Kingdom. (Which is based around various alien fungi and arthropods, ''very'' heavily [[Fire-Breathing Diner|spiced]].) While originally intended as a "home cooking" place for the few other survivors of the Dark Kingdom, it unexpectedly becomes popular with humans, mainly because of the [[Bragging Rights Award|bragging rights]] earned from eating food even Klingons might hesitate to consume.

* [[Alternate Universe]]: The Dark Kingdom Renegades discover how to travel to various parallel worlds, including a [[Mirror Universe]] and the world of the original ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]''.

* [[Ambiguously Human]]: "Humanic" (human mimic) youma, who externally appear completely human. The are an incredibly tiny minority among the typically monstrous and demonic youma. {{spoiler|And, it is strongly implied later in the stories, usually the illegitimate or disavowed offspring of one of Beryl's generals.}}

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Margrave.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Trenchcoat Mask.

* [[Battle Couple]]: Calcite and Sailor Venus in the Crystal Tokyo era, depending on what phase of their cyclic relationship they're in (they periodically break up and get back together over the centuries).

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Reluctantly done to the [[Mirror Universe]] version of Titanite by the other Renegades because she was too young to understand the need to keep up the [[Masquerade]] they needed to maintain just to survive. To save themselves they broke the mind of an innocent, loving girl and turned her into a [[Complete Monster]].

* [[Cat Girl]]: Margrave, a felinoid youma who managed to survive the fall of the Dark Kingdom.

* [[Coat, Hat, Mask]]: Trenchcoat Mask.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: From the incomplete side story ''[http://www.oocities.org/tokyo/temple/1810/zeongene.txt Zeon Genesis Bogosity]'', Titanite/Sailor Polaris smashing [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Matariel, the ninth Angel]] with a giant [[Hyperspace Mallet]]. For [[Bonus Points]], she does it while [[Teleport Spam]]ming to keep it from targeting her, while chanting:
{{quote|[[Slayers| "Brightness beyond dawn,
Turquoise beyond blood that flows,
Servant of the Eternal City,
In Serenity's name,
I pledge myself to the light.
All the evil that threatens earth will be punished
By the power of the Senshi.
MALLET SLAVE!]]}}
:One hit, and it's flattened.

* [[Defector From Decadence]]: The Dark Kingdom Renegades.

* [[Exclusively Evil]]: Subverted. The youma of the Dark Kingdom initially ''appeared'' this way, but as stories were written it became clear that there were clear gradations of "evilness" among them, from [[Complete Monster]]s to some whose "evil" was more an [[Informed Attribute]] than anything else. And then there were the "sports" like the Dark Kingdom Renegades, who were born with a more human sense of morality.

* [[Expanded Universe]]: A rare fan-driven and fan-written example.

* [[Fan Verse]]: One of the very first and a prime example.

* [[Fan Boy|Fangirl]]: Titanite is a ''serious'' Sailor Senshi fangirl.

* [[Fisher Kingdom]]: When the Dark Kingdom Renegades begin exploring other universes, they discover that there is an "adaptation effect" which forces extraplanar visitors to take on the characteristics of an existing native of that universe, usually one who is already similar to the visitor in some way.

* [[Half-Identical Twins]]: Calcite and Titanite, despite Titanite apparently being five or more years Calcite's junior. It was revealed late in the ''Dark Kingdom Renegades'' series that the two were born twins, but their youma mother put the infant Titanite into [[Suspended Animation]] until Calcite was old enough to look after her himself.

* [[Hyperspace Mallet]]: Humanoid youma anime fan Titanite figures out how to use her psychoplasm powers to create and dismiss mallets as needed.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: It's eventually revealed that Calcite and Titanite's father is {{spoiler|Nephrite}}.{{verify}} It's not ''too'' traumatic, because by that point he's long dead.

* [[Mirror Universe]]: One of the first universes the Dark Kingdom Renegades discover when they first begin exploring parallel worlds is one where their counterparts led the Dark Kingdom to victory over the Earth. Subverted in that most of their counterparts ''aren't'' "evil reflections" -- they were simply a little more pragmatic and a little more desperate to save themselves, and thus were [[Slowly Slipping Into Evil|willing to take ''slightly'' more extreme measures]] than the DKR had felt comfortable taking in their universe. The only one of their counterparts who was actually evil was their Titanite -- and that was because she had been too young to maintain the [[Masquerade]] that kept them alive, and the others had been reluctantly forced to [[Break the Cutie|break her mind and turn her evil for real]].

* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: Magnesite lives to embody this trope. While a mid-ranking baron in the Dark Kingdom, he had his agents bring him earth video equipment so that he could watch old videos of [[Humphrey Bogart]], to whom [[Rule of Funny|he bears a remarkable resemblance]]. He was eventually trapped in a crystal prison by the Sailor Senshi and his former subordinate Calcite, and the only way for him to pass the time for the next 800 years was to replay every Bogart movie he's ever seen. Line by line, scene by scene, from memory. After he is released and placed on parole by Neo-Queen Serenity, he seeks employment in his idol's footsteps as a seedy detective. Unfortunately, Crystal Tokyo is a utopia, which clashes with his desired dingy atmosphere. In addition, because of his prolonged confinement and means of passing the time, he constantly thinks to himself in terms of the Private Eye Monologue. Sometimes, though, in accordance with the [[Rule of Funny]], he will accidentally monologue out loud; usually when the "dizzy dame with legs that could wrap around my waist with room to spare" standing in front of him is a Senshi looking for a reason to inflict harm.

* [[Slowly Slipping Into Evil]]: The [[Mirror Universe]] versions of the Dark Kingdom Renegades.

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