Chris Davies wrote:
On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Addison Godel wrote:
You're right that (in the anime) none of the Dark Kingdom Generals were
really killed by the Sailor Senshi...but what about Titus, from the cruise
ship episode? Clearly independent, thinking, and with her own
motive...killed by the Sailor Senshi and nobody else. Hmm.
Yes, but she is very much so an oddity. One episode out of *two*
*hundred*? And even so, her *actions* make this a case of self-defense,
just as is Sailor Moon's parrying of Kunzite's final attack, resulting in
his death. (After which she doesn't exult ... she looks almost sad.)
Chris Davies.
Chris, I don't think anyone is saying that the Senshi were acting in
anything but self-defense, or even that the characters are anything
other than "good". The thing is, when you kill someone, even if that
person is "evil", and even if its in self-defense, well most people
would feel pretty horrible about it. I'm talking about a lot worse
than "looking almost sad". I'll give you monsters from the other
seasons like Cardians or Droids, but the first season youmas were
clearly sentient beings. For the characters to be behaving the way they
were, it's obvious they thought of everyone except the generals as mere
golems, not alive. This must have been reinforced in later season when
their opponents really were golems and degenerated to cards or jewels or
whatever after being defeated. You notice it was always important to
them not to harm the seven crystal carriers, but rather to heal them.
There might be an intresting fanfic idea in how they would react upon
realizing the "truth".
Obfanfiction: How about this for an idea. A mysterious new character
arrives and fights to help the Senshi against whatever the current
menace is. However, the character refuses to use lethal force, and
insists on trying to capture all the opponents (using some *really*
thick chains or whatever) whether or not they're actually "alive". This
could be done as a joke or seriously.