The fuck!? The fuck did local Paul do!? Even in the anime, Metalia is a "rocks fall, everyone dies" planet killing dark god. I... legitimately don't know why there's anyone left alive on the planet at all right now, never mind try and fight back.
Usagi's dead. Welp, even if they can find a way to stop Metalia, it doesn't really matter. While Wiseman/Death Phantom is butterflied away, there's still the Makai Tree, Pharaoh 90, Nehelenia and fucking Sailor Galaxia. Without Usagi there's no way to stop any of them, and even if they could, without Usagi there's no way for anyone to survive the Great Freeze. Earth is fucked.
Metallia waking up is a "rocks fall, everyone dies" apocalypse. In canon, the first time Metallia was active caused the death of a magical kingdom covering the solar system and destroyed all evidence of that kingdom on Earth along with blasting them back into the stone age despite said kingdom being ruled by a goddess with a wish granting relic. The second time she was active instantly sent everyone on Earth (apart from the Senshi) into a murderous insanity that would have killed everyone if Sailor Moon didn't revive everyone.
He is picking up quite a lot of exotic stuff for his soul on this trip. Wonder if anything will come of it.
To answer the asked question: Probably. Not knowing would not reassure you.
This is getting odd. Paul absolutely knows about Sailor Moon because he made cosplay of it. I can buy him not recognising a live action version, at least briefly, but she has name-dropped enough people and things that he really should have realised where he is by now.
Tried to negotiate with and/or date Beryl?
No, no, I'm not putting up with pages of nonsesne speculation again. The SI is aware that Sailor Moon is a thing that exists, but couldn't name any of the characters, much less describe their costumes (other than Sailor Moon's) in detail. Plus, he is aware that that sort of thing became a standard look for a lot of Japanese magical girl series, so he isn't specifically associating this blonde Japanese girl with that.
Thank you, corrected.
No.
Snagged the Silver Crystal as a power source for his ring because he couldn't find a lantern, then got mind controlled into switching sides because he had no inherent magic resistance, giving Metalia easy access to the crystal?
The nonsense speculation is literally the entire point.
Some of the other alts have used local magical artifacts as power sources. And I think assimilation/conversion is probably on the table as well (didn't happen to change a green lantern to orange?). Like I said, I don't know much about Sailor Moon; I'm just wildly speculating and the Silver Crystal seemed to have a lot of different functions. Plus it was tied to Metalia.
I mean... we know that he did in fact doom the world somehow. So "disastrous" seems apropos?
No. I don't think the Silver Crystal even existed in the conventional sense when he arrived. It had to be reassembled or something.
Completely true.
It's not speculation I mind, it's that despite me specifically saying 'no, he really doesn't know much about Sailor Moon (the series)', several people have assumed that something's up with that.
Yes, but there won't be much left of the Earth to appreciate it.
He could use it to tap into the Galaxy Cauldron. That would power him quite nicely.
I like to think of it as Byronic; though he's tried to improve things and help people, and in some areas genuinely has, the overall situation is worse than if he hadn't bothered. The Sheeda Harvest happened early because of him, and Mannheim got powered up because the Forever People couldn't stop him. Those weren't things that he meant to happen, but they did happen because of him.
The lack of any color on the possessiveness is interesting
It wouldn't have been hard.
Minako is actually a year younger than Usagi, she's 12 during Codename: Sailor V, and 13 during the Dark Kingdom and Black Moon arcs.
Oh certainly. But the Light were actually quite good at Darkseid management, and the Sheeda haven't attacked by... Whatever series canon is on.
Except... The Oceanus thing only happened because he captured Ocean Master, leading to his execution. Canonically, Ocean Master escaped, achieved little, and was eventually killed by Lady Shiva.
Except... That whole thing was started by Colin Thornton. Who did it because he was being courted as a Klarion-replacement.
That's true. Doesn't help Earth and has resulted in more people dying in the short term, but is a genuine improvement to the state of the galaxy in the longer term.
