Sailor Moon is an epic tale that spans centuries about the battle between good and evil. The magical girl series features some of the most powerful warriors in anime. At the height of her abilities, protagonist Usagi Tsukino has the ability to unmake and remake the universe.

Usagi isn’t the only powerful and threatening being in her world. Both her allies and her foes have staggering gifts that can destroy lands within the blink of an eye. Some Sailor Guardians have death abilities that make their fellow Guardians shudder. Many of the Sailor Guardians’ major antagonists have destructive abilities which stem from the primordial god, Chaos.

Queen Beryl’s Jealousy Drives Her to Commit Actual War Crimes

Beryl began as a relatively humble human sorceress who pined for the Prince of Earth, Endymion. Her feelings were unrequited, as the prince was completely in love with and planned to marry the Princess and heir to the Moon Kingdom, Princess Serenity. Rather than moving on, Beryl let her feelings fester, and she teamed up with a great source of evil, Queen Metalia, who amplified her sorceress powers, uplifting her to her commander.

As Queen Beryl, she led a deadly war on the Moon Kingdom and brought an entire kingdom and bastion of peace to ruin, destroying the entire Silver Millennium. Not satisfied with destroying an entire kingdom and epoch of time, Queen Beryl followed Serenity, Endymion, and the Sailor Guardians into the future, determined to destroy their lives once again. When Queen Beryl fuses with Queen Metalia after years of feeding her human energy, their Super Beryl form can only be stopped by Princess Serenity and the Silver Crystal.

Wiseman Is the Master of Adaptability & Manipulation

The cleverest villains tend to be the most threatening, as Wiseman proves in the Black Moon Arc. Wiseman sneaks into the minds of others, exploiting their hopes and fears. He turns them into his minions before he disposes of them when they’re no longer useful to him. In the Stars Arc, he’s shown to do so again in a flashback with Galaxia by positioning himself as a kind of fatherly teacher to the abandoned Sailor Guardian.

Wiseman seems to have a near-omniscient presence in the Black Moon Arc. When Prince Demande’s brother, Saphir, finally figures out that Wiseman isn’t the mentor and guide that Demande thinks he is, Wiseman is immediately aware of Saphir’s disillusionment. Wiseman’s Malefic Crystal-powered revenge is swift, brutal, and deadly.

Mistress 9 Annihilates One of the Strongest Sailor Guardians (Temporarily)

Mistress 9 is a malevolent daimon from the Tau Star System who Pharaoh 90 wants to manifest on Earth. Hotaru, the reborn form of Sailor Saturn, is singled out by Pharaoh 90 to be Mistress 9’s Earthly vessel. Mistress 9 needs a strong vessel like Hotaru to manifest on Earth, though Hotaru puts up quite a fight throughout the Infinity/Mugen Arc in Sailor Moon.

Eventually, Mistress 9 does overpower Hotaru. When Mistress 9 does overtake Hotaru, the process is exceedingly brutal, especially in the original manga, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, as Mistress 9 bursts through Hotaru, decimating her physical form. Sailor Guardians are some of the strongest beings in the entire universe, especially Outer Sailor Guardians, like Hotaru, and though Hotaru eventually comes back, Mistress 9’s misdeeds are potentially apocalyptic.

Sailor Moon & Sailor Saturn Have to Team Up to Destroy Pharaoh 90

Normally, most villains can be destroyed by Sailor Moon and the Silver Crystal. As Sailor Moon is a magical girl anime, Sailor Moon’s powers level up with the demands of her circumstances, including the level of her villains. That’s not to say her battles aren’t hard won and don’t nearly cost her her life, her heart, and her sanity.

Sailor Moon’s fight with Pharaoh 90 nearly takes everything from her. Fans often remark about how hollow her eyes are after her battle with Pharaoh 90. Pharaoh 90 is a being of pure evil from the Tau Nebula, and the source of all daimons. She cannot destroy him by herself, and Sailor Saturn fights and then sacrifices herself to help Sailor Moon destroy him. Sailor Moon leaves the battle shaken with a reborn Sailor Saturn in her arms, after Pharaoh 90 is finally defeated.

Queen Nehelenia Speaks Death into Existence

Queen Nehelenia is plainly inspired by dark fairy tale queens meant to represent psychological terrors, like mothers who resent their own daughters to the point of violence. Like the evil witch mother of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,” Queen Nehelenia consults her mirrors and traps herself in a warped idea of beauty and self-worth. And like the evil fairy in “Sleeping Beauty,” she gleefully curses a sleeping baby to death on her christening day.

Queen Nehelenia’s mere words have the power to trigger Princess Serenity’s death. Queen Beryl may have been the one to swing the sword and wage war on the Moon Kingdom, but Queen Nehelenia was the one to curse Princess Serenity when she was a baby, ensuring that she would die before she could ever become queen, ensuring the end of the Silver Millennium. Beyond that, her mirror shards can burrow into people’s minds and control their thoughts, as she does with Mamoru before the Sailor Guardians stop her and imprison her in her mirror realm.

Sailor Saturn Has Fear-Inspiring Death Powers

Sailor Saturn is also known as the Guardian of Ruin and Rebirth, and she wields the Silence Glaive, which is a reaper’s tool. Outer Sailor Guardians must protect and patrol the wider spectrum of the Solar System from threats, so they must be more powerful than the Inner Sailor Guardians, and Sailor Saturn is the most feared of the Outer Sailor Guardians with her death and silence powers. Sailor Saturn’s powers are so bottomless and consuming that if she were to access the full depth of her powers, they would consume her.

Sailor Saturn has the ability to erase entire planets with her Silence Glaive. It’s possible that she would destroy entire Star Systems. No one truly knows because of how principled, compassionate, and controlled Sailor Saturn chooses to be with her powers. That’s why villains like Pharaoh 90 and Mistress 9 try (and ultimately fail) to target her as a vessel for evil.

Galaxia Has an Ultimate Plan Which Would Bring on a Universal Extinction Event

Galaxia ruthlessly slays Mamoru and the Sailor Guardians as she lures Sailor Moon to the Galaxy Cauldron at the center of the Universe in the Stars arc. The Sailor Moon saga ends with Galaxia, a central villain born with the powers of a Sailor Guardian. She is largely rejected by society, though, and rather than seeking peace and protecting the universe, she seeks amassing power and gluts herself on violence.

Sailor Moon spends most of the Stars Arc watching Galaxia run roughshod on Earth as she rips away people’s Star Seeds. Not only can Galaxia annihilate Sailor Moon’s closest warriors, but the corrupted would-be Sailor Guardian can capture and bend the Inner and Outer Sailor Guardians’ wills to match her own. Chaos, the primary manifestation of evil in the Sailor Moon universe, chose Galaxia as his primary pupil because of her potential for true devastation.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that Sailor Moon, Princess Serenity, is just one in a long line of Moon Princesses and Moon Queens. She was raised by a strong, capable, and extremely powerful mother, also named Serenity. Season 1, Episode 1 of Sailor Moon shows how Queen Serenity is the one responsible for Princess Serenity’s reborn life on Earth as Usagi after Princess Serenity’s demise in the Moon Kingdom.

If it wasn’t for Queen Serenity’s quick thinking, her immense strength with the Silver Crystal and her devotion to her daughter, her kingdom, and the galaxy, then all would have been lost with Queen Beryl’s siege of the Moon Kingdom. And for many, many years before the war on the Moon Kingdom, it was Queen Serenity who maintained the role of the Moon Kingdom in the Solar System and the universe at large. Before Sailor Moon, she was the one who wielded the Silver Crystal, one of the strongest, if not the strongest, objects in the universe. She set the precedent for Sailor Moon and was responsible for raising Princess Serenity into the person she was.

Chaos Is the Primordial Source of All Evil

Chaos is a primordial entity who crawled out of the Galaxy Cauldron in the center of the universe. His evil energy is incredibly far-reaching, to the point where the logic of it is ineffable. Beings, from Earth humans to Dead Moon queens who have no biological connections to Chaos, become incarnations of Chaos and channel his evil energy when they share his sinful goals.

There is only one person who can defeat Chaos, and that is Sailor Moon in her Eternal form. Even so, defeating Chaos requires the ultimate price, as Sailor Moon must destroy the source of all life and restart the entire universe. Any lesser deed means that Chaos continues to manifest indefinitely to wreak havoc.

Sailor Moon Evolves into a Peaceful Queen with Goddess-Level Powers

Nearly every character acquainted with the celestial lore of Sailor Moon acknowledges that the Silver Crystal which Sailor Moon wields is the strongest item in the universe. It is just as powerful as sacred items like the Holy Grail, which Sailor Moon also wields, in her Super Sailor Moon form. Even in Sailor Moon’s most basic warrior form, she has the power to tap into immense purification and healing abilities which can exorcise high-level demons and even bring beings back from the dead.

Sailor Moon is destined to follow in the footsteps of the great Moon Kingdom queens who came before her, who also bear her name. She even exceeds them as she becomes Neo-Queen Serenity and leads Crystal Tokyo in the New Silver Millennium. As Eternal Sailor Moon, she ends and restarts the universe to stop a primordial death and war god. And as Sailor Cosmos, she wields Lambda Power, which is the power of rebirth.