Imp's Top 10 Most Wanted Death Battles Revised

The first blog I ever did was making a list of my top 10 most wanted Death Battles. However time has gone, my mind has changed, some fights have been done or one of the fighters has fought someone else. So this is my revised top 10 most wanted fights. Note: This does not take into account how likely these fights are. Some of these I feel are very likely to happen, some are incredibly likely.

10:

Brainiac (DC Comics) vs Ultron (Marvel Comics)

Bit of a confession; despite being a massive Superman fan I'm not a fan of most of his villain roster. There are 3 exceptions, maybe 4 depending on who you count, and the one I easily think is most underrated is Brainiac. I really like Brainiac as a villain and from what I know Ultron would make for the perfect adversary for him. I don't tend to like a lot of science-fiction fights in general (I'm more into Fantasy) but this would be an excellent fight that would amazing from a strategic angle.

9:

Emperor Mateus (Final Fantasy) vs Darth Sidious (Star Wars)

These two, it's like they were made to fight each other. Highly thematic, same stat range, both with manifold hax and abilities that happen to perfectly synchronize, just cosmic enough to get that cosmic epic feel while being just down to Earth enough to have an earthy weight to it, really just great.

8:

Mami Tomoe (Puella Magi Madoka Magicka) vs Panty Anarchy (Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt)

Despite being just complete opposites personality wise, I love both Mami and Panty, basically the exact same amount. Getting to see these two fight would be a dream. It would be incredibly entertaining and seemingly pretty fair.

7:

Majokko Club Battle Royale

Easily the least likely to actually happen. Back in the 80s studio pierrot made 4 big magical girl series and then happen all join a single magical girl term the Majokko Club. Even though it's never gonna happen, it would be super nostalgic for me and hilarious to see other people react to the magic bs that these 4 regularly pull out of nothing. 

6:

Justice League of America (DC Comics) vs Justice Society of America (DC Comics)

Also pretty unlikely since if they were gonna do the JLA they'd just put them up against the Avengers but this is just fairer, as thematic if not more given their long history of crossover fights back in the Silver Age, and just involves more characters I want to see. 

5:

Isaac Clarke (Dead Space) vs Gordan Freeman (Half Life)

Honestly, I just don't know why they haven't done this one already. Both are fairly popular, Gordon perhaps a little more so. The fight itself is pretty popular. Both's powers are rooted in fairly straightforward science giving them plenty of chance to do the kind of numbers showing calcs they love to do. Neither of them are that strong or are that hard to show off...is it just because of sprites or something? Because honestly this fight would be amazing and unique given their interesting physics based powers.

4: 

Guardian Senshi Battle Royale (Sailor Moon)

This was my first death prediction and I still want it A LOT. There's really not even a lot to say. The Sailor Senshi are my favorite Team, and these four would have an amazingly even and interesting fight.

3: 

Castle Crashers (Castle Crashers) vs Magicka Wizards (Magicka)

From my first death prediction to my first death prediction collab. This fight is plain weird to think about given somehow BOTH sides are the underdog. Nonethless it has the chance to be a very funny fight while still being epic and thrilling.

2: 

Darkseid (DC Comics) vs Thanos (Marvel Comics)

Galactus vs Unicron? Bleh. THIS is the Universe-Destroying Cosmic Villain fight that "I" wanna see. A fight that will inevitably push the level of destruction DB can do, with villains whose versatility and scope can lead to a fight of nigh-infinite permutations and possibilities. 

1:

Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon) vs Carddaptor Sakura (Cardcaptor Sakura)

COME ON DEATH BATTLE PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

The two problems of versus debating

I have noticed two very large problems that seem to act as the root of most versus debating division and hinder it's ability to serve as an enjoyable hobby. Things that are not fun to debate about but unfortunately a difference of opinion split people.

The first of these is the acceptance and application of wholly different fundamental principles. If you go to Reddit's whowouldwin, spacebattle's versus section, the outskirts battledome or versus battles wiki and you ask what qualifies as "hax" or "combat speed" you're likely to get wholly different responses between them and often within them. Obviously if you start from different premises, then at some point you are going to run into irreconcilable problems. What I find perplexing about it is that these mostly aren't a problem. We speak mostly the same language, and link to respect threads or calcs done on each others' sites all the time with barely an eyebrow raised. This suggests to me that this is not a wholly insurmountable problem, but merely an issue of incorrect opinions about math and science, and occasionally philosophy and language that is driving a wedge between versus debating subcultures. The verses with the most amount of controversy are mostly a case of this problem, specifically argumentation on the principles of "outlier" and more recently of "interpreting game mechanics".

The second problem is a lot easier to solve theoretically but also a lot more tedious and that is the problem of ignoring context. One of the most widespread of these is the "ignoring surface area" problem. Calcing the destruction of the planet at x energy and then having y character survive that and saying y has x durability does not follow because y is taking a fraction of x. This happens all the time. Surface area is what makes a sword more dangerous usually then a club since it's the same energy concentrated on a smaller surface area. This gets a lot more widespread and a lot more embarrasing. I won't use examples I have actually seen because I don't want to throw attacks at people and their arguments, even anonymous people, without them having the chance to defend their arguments. That said in general what I'm talking about is abstracting powers until they are just terms and then applying those terms without actually thinking about that in terms of a combat scenario. There is a pretty easy way to combat this but it is very tedious and that would be explaining every step of your argument bit by bit. As in explaining what character a would due to character b and why they can do it and giving every scaling bit and how that power has been used before that justifies it. It takes a while and is annoying but if you do that you can easily avoid the problem of ignoring context because you are essentially adding in the context for everything. If you don't want to do that, and let's face it who does, then you should at least try and do that in your head. Visualize the fight in your head and what exactly you expect to happen and why. I know that may sound silly, but it would help avoid nonsense where people are claiming they can do things they have never done because they happen to have a power that seems like it could be able to do that.

Important Clamp multiverse stats feats

The Clamp multiverse can be really hard to figure out, especially in a versus context. Sometimes it can seen street level and sometimes it can seem cosmic. If I may say personally this is actually one of my favorite things about Clamp, how little things can be given such importance. This is a verse where being able to speak to the dead is often as good as being to destroy a dimension, or even better. Being able to destroy a dimension is fairly limited, while speaking to the dead is potentially much more versatile. Even mundane skills can have importance like in CCS where Eriol approvingly comments that Tomoyo is completely mundane but she has keen powers of observation.

With that said in the versus contexts people often want to know how strong how CLAMP characters are so I thought I'd give a quick guide-ish thing.

Issue 1: The meaning of Dimension

Clamp uses the terms "dimensions" a lot to designate it's separate areas of space leading to much argumentation about how big these dimensions are. The lowest estimation is that there are a few dimensions that are just earth-sized planets or smaller (Earth Dimension, which in this interpretation is literally the planet Earth, Cephiro, Fahren, Autozam, Chizeta etc.) and the rest are even smaller then the size of planets. The highest end interpretation is that most of these dimensions  are the size of universes with a few exceptions. Obviously this DRASTICALLY affects how strong the verse is.

My interpretation tends closer to the higher and here's why. At multiple times stars are seen in the background of these dimensional worlds but the most important instance is in Magic Knight Rayearth Chapter 6 when Mokona relates how it created the Earth Dimension and it is seen creating the stars, indicating that in the creation of the Earth Dimension it created the stars and not just the planet Earth. Mokona also clearly states that it created the rules of the Earth Dimension contrasting it to the Cephiro Dimension where everything is determined by will. This means he created the physical laws of the universe such as gravity, electromagnetism etc.  However the rules of the universe are not bound strictly to the planet Earth, nor are they ever implied to be in Clamp.

What this suggests to me is that the dimensions in Clamp are likely mostly universe sized.

Issue 2: Durability vs Magic Resistance

In Clamp those that have magic have correlated a certain level of resistance of magic resistance, for instance when Eriol plunged the Earth into sleep in CCS, this did not affect the magic-users and the magical entities like the clow spirits. This raises the question of "if this character survives a magic attack from this character, is it their durability or their resistance to magic?" There's no easy answer to this, but it seems must of the Clamp cast have both a level of enhanced durability and magic resistance and the only way to find the level of each is by separate feats or scaling


Notable Power Feats

• Within the 52 Clow Cards there is a hierarchy where Light and Dark come first, with the 4 Elemental Cards; Earthy, Fiery, Watery, and Windy come second and all the rest come last suggesting that each kind of card can scale to the cards in the upper ranks of the hierarchy
• Plenty of the Clow Cards can create effects at least building level in area of effect
• The Dragons of Earth and the Dragons of Heaven have superhuman stats and abilities
• The Snow can cover Tokyo in Snow
• The Rain and the Storm can create storms
• The Maze can create it's own dimension that was seemingly endless and stretched at least to the horizon. When combined with Illusion it seemed to be able to contain the stars though this is ambiguous (clearly the stars were Illusions as they were made by Illusion although whether they space they resided in was illusory is unclear)
• The loop can create an infinite internal space by looping space in on itself
• In the war for Cephiro, there was numerous mecha and vehicles the size of buildings or larger propelling themselves at massive speed
• The Warrior Zagato created his own mecha the size of a building purely from his will
• The Fiery vaporized all of the Snow coating Tokyo at once
• The Earthy can create earthquakes capable of threatening cities
• The Six Stars all scale to an important city-busting feat in RG Veda
• The Greatest Sorcerer of Cephiro, Clef created a magic blast that reached the clouds above
• The Pillar of Cephiro is a planetary warper whose will prevents natural disasters all across the surface of Cephiro and who even weakened was able to maintain a dome surrounding the whole world protecting it against inter-dimensional invasion
• The Dark can plunge the sky including the Sun and possibly the other stars in Darkness. It can also restore the night from the Light
• The Light can restore the light to the heavens, making the whole thing of light.
• The Guardians of the Cards (Kero/Yue and Spinel/Ruby Moon) have dominion over the half of the cards attributed to them are immune to their effects
• Dimensional Witch Yuuko is able to turn mortals into Gods
• God Mokona created universes and gave them their rules
• The Dark God Ashura wishes and supposedly can destroy Heaven, Earth and Hell
• The Rune God Rayearth was able to challenge and struggle against the power of Mokona without being stomped. The power of the three Rune Gods together was able to overcome Mokona's power.
• Fai D. Fluorite was able to collapse a dimension
• Clow Reed and Dimensional Witch Yuuko created a few Mokona
• Fei Wang Reed nearly destroyed and recreated the multiverse but Sakura and Syaoran together overpowered him
• The Two Syaorans survived the power of Fei Wang Reed
• Fei Wang Reed was scared of confrontation with Dimensional Witch Yuuko though I'd be careful on assuming that's due to raw power
• Clow Reed was so powerful that his presence was felt throughout the multiverse and God Mokona confusedly flew to him to see who this stronger entity was
• When Yuuko died Clow Reed's stray wish to see her smile again warped the entire multiverse and suspended Yuuko in time
• After his death, Clow Reed's stray power became Fei Wang Reed
• Clow Reed supposedly put all his power into the 52 cards, and their negative energy created the Nothing
• The Nothing has power to match the other 52 cards alone as the negative energy counterpart to them
• Sakura became stronger then Clow Reed and was able to transform his cards into her own Sakura cards, recreating them, including recreating The Nothing into The Hope completely on her own with her love. She was also able to split Clow Reed's power being stronger then him
• As of Clear Card, Sakura is making her own Clear Cards that are akin to Clow Reed's cards, without even trying to

Notable Speed Feats

• The Thunder is a beast of electricity, and Arc 1 Sakura was able to move comparable
• One of the fighters in RG Veda uses electricity and the others are able to react and move to it as if at the same speed though it may be just unnatural lightning
• The Light is literally light. The Dash at short ranges is faster suggesting FTL speed
• Various Powerful entities in the war for Cephiro were able to travel from other dimensions and worlds using the Roads although how much of this is attributable to the Roads themselves is ambiguous. None the less they're all able to easily travel around the world of Cephiro in hours at most. 
• Mokona traveled across the multiverse to see the great power of Clow Reed
• Various Mages have power that has stretched across a dimension or indeed all them at once suggesting their magic speed is very fast. 

My Ships

There are a lot of ships I like, these are just the ones I really like and I can remember at the time of writing.

If you dislike a ship I like or pair them with someone else that's perfectly fine, please don't be angry at me, we can all just enjoy what we enjoy.

A quite note about formatting; When I have three names like A x B x C that means I like pairing B the middle one with either A or C (or both in a threeway romance) and am divided. For Het pairings I don't know why but I've gotten into the habit of writing the female name first. Not sure how that started. Other then that the order does not matter.

Clamp:

Fay x Kurogane

Fuu x Ferio

Hikaru x Lantis

Kedappa-ou x Souma

Sakura x Syaoran

Watanuki x Doumeki

Yukito x Touya

Yuuko x Clow

Sailor Moon:

Ami x Makoto

Haruka x Michiru

Hotaru x Chibiusa x Helios

Luna x Artemis

Rei x Minako

Usagi x Mamoru (My Favorite Ship!!!)

Zoisite x Kunzite

DC Comics:

Apollo x Midnighter

Catwoman x Batman

Harley Quinn x Poison Ivy

Starfire x Nightwing

Wonder Woman x Superman

Zatanna x Constantine

Saint Seiya:

Freya x Hyoga

Kardia x Degel

Seiya x Shiryu

Axis Powers Hetalia:

Germany x Italy

 

US x UK

Puella Magi Madoka Magicka:

Mami x Madoka x Homura

Sayaka x Kyoko

Tokyo Mew Mew

Ichigo x Masaya

Mint x Zakuro

Wedding Peach

Momoko x Yousuke

Yuri x Limone

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

Nanoha x Fate

Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch

Lucia x Kaito

Pretear

Himeno x Hayate

Pretty Cure

Nagisa x Honoka

Yu Yu Hakusho

Keiko x Yusuke

Ranking every Sailor Moon Manga Villain

Magical Girls as a genre have a bit of a problem. Namely a lot of them have only kind of "eh" villains or outright bad villains. Two of the three Big MG, Card Captor Sakura and Puella Magi Madoka Magicka get around this problem by either not having villains or having morally ambiguous characters that serve as antagonists and might be villains depending on who you ask. The other one Sailor Moon has more traditional "villains" and it has a lot of them. Over the course of the manga's 60 chapters, 16 chapter prequel and about 10 side stories there are by my count 75 villains or villain-pairs not including fodder.  These villains in my opinion run the full gamut of quality from absolutely terrible villains to among my favorite not just villains, but favorite characters in all of fiction. So I'm gonna rank them. All of them. Note this is only villains that appeared in the manga at some point and not other canon exclusive villains.

75: Rabbit Comet

You know, I'm kind of glad Parallel Sailor Moon takes place in an alternate universe because it's kind of dumb. The "villain" is a comet made of rabbits that's somehow gonna destroy the Earth that I'm not kidding appears and is beaten in 2 pages. It barely qualifies as a villain, but it's alive and a threat.

74: Taku

ughhhhhhh. Taku. Taku is just a nerd otaku stereotype that thinks video games are for boys only and refuses to believe Minako is a girl. He's not threatening at all, Minako could beat him up without even transforming, he's not entertaining or compelling in the slightest being an annoying stereotype. He in Codename Sailor V chapter 2 and really shows how much Takeuchi-Hime improved in writing villains. At LEAST the chapter doesn't pretend that this attitude is in any way common, with Motoki (the arcade owner) being happy more girls are interested in playing video games and depicting couples going there. It's almost like there isn't some misogynistic culture infesting gaming and you should stop pretending Taku is in any way representative of anything then a boring cliche that was outdated the minute it was born. 

73: Otakura

In a way Otakura's anti-quality is actually a sign of SM's growth and how great the series is. The problem with Otakura is how little she makes sense, how some random old spirit is somehow supposed to be even vaguely a threat to Eternal Sailor Moon, the savior of the universe many times over. She's a remnant of SM's origin battling assorted yokai and spirits that just doesn't make sense when Sailor Moon's advanced so much. 

72: Zircon

Zircon is the little eyeball thing on Zirconia's staff. It flies around and scouts for her. Not too much to say there.

71: Garoben

AKA "That other Youma". She was the youma that was ...to put it bluntly "corrupting our youths with backwards satanic messages on the floppy disks!" Not as iconic as Morga to be honest. 

70: Xenotime and Zeolite

They had one good plan between them but they throw carnival throwing daggers as their prime method of attack.

69: Founde 

Really? This was the Dark Agency's best agent? Her brilliant plan was to give civilians makeovers and the brainwash them to kill Sailor V. The only reason she was even a threat was Minako forgot to charge her weapon. Suddenly becomes a lot clearer why the Dark Agency failed. 

68: Lilica Hubert and Mrs. Hubert

I really like Vampires generally but outside of being colorful these are basically as generic vampires as you could get and had no threat behind them. Also like a lot of the short story villains they didn't have a lot of room to develop much of a personality.

67: Touhi-Chan

One of the one-note short story spirit villains. Touhi-chan's gimmick is being cutesy and using sweets.

66: Bonnun

Another of the Short Story Spirits. This one steals knowledge from people's heads and feeds off the energy of people studying for exams. The fiend.

65: Karaoke Warrior Mike Makii

Pandora was a better Music-Using Dark Agency Member. 

64: Resin

Another one of the short story spirits, though the dentist spirit stands out by being intimidating by virtue of getting how painful her dental based powers are. Like her drill whose sound mimics the pain of getting your teeth drilled on ;(

63: Hawk's Eye

The Manga Amazon Trio appear much less then their anime counterparts and they're honestly not very interesting outside of concept (three animals turned into magical humanoids with mindsets based on their animals). Hawk's Eye scheme was not as clever as Fish Eye's nor was it as direct as Tiger's Eye. 

62: Tiger's Eye

Tiger's Eye is pretty similar to Hawk's Eye though his scheme of just drawing them into the mirror worlds they control was a lot more straightfoward. 

61: Fluorite

Making a bunch of clones of yourself is cool but then gathering themselves in one place along with yourself giving the perfect chance for the heroine much stronger then you to beat you all at once was a pretty dumb tactical move, even if Minako was being boss that chapter. Fluroite was a somewhat intimidating early threat but she didn't have much else to her. 

60: Morga

The Youma of Chapter 1. Gets this high mostly from being iconic and because her plan to sell women cursed jewelry to enslave them to the Dark Kingdom is a pretty dece plan. Also because she's still creepy as all get out. Also granted while she died in one attack....crybaby Usagi was at least intimidated :P

59: Fish Eye

Not the physical threat or fleshed out character that he (yes he, Fish Eye is a crossdresser in the manga at least) is in the anime, Fish Eye's plan to pretend to be Ami's friend and prey on her insecurities that others only value her intellect remains a devious plan. 

58: Nyan-Nyan

One of the Animal Sibling Trio. Cat Themed :P Cute enough one-shot villain.

57: Wan-Wan

One of the Animal Sibling Trio. Dog Themed. A bit more engaging then Nyan-Nyan since instead of just being playful, wanted vengeance against Sailor V for killing his little sister Nyan-Nyan.

56: Ghost Cistern

AKA "The Lesbian Ghost". One of the One-Shot Spirits. Possessed Rei and tried to make her make-out with Minako. Made for a funny enemy. 

55: Hibiscusy

Basically a fanservice villain, is pretty funny to see her flail goofily after an annoyed Minako (whose had her vacation ruined) punch her far into the air. 

54: Chuu-Chuu

One of the Animal Sibling Trio. Mosquito themed. Wanted vengeance for her siblings. Much creepier powers then her siblings as might be guessed. In a serious story would be a horrific villain using a giant swarm of mosquitos to transfer blood diseases from person to person. 

53: DeVleene

A Dark Agency member whose job was literally just to serve tea and sweets to Danburite before she insisted on trying a mission herself. Her mission was to sell special candies that would addict people and turn them fat. The monster. BTW can you tell that Codename: Sailor V was not as serious as Sailor Moon was? :P

52: Narkissos

The enemy of the first chapter of Codename Sailor V, brainwashed girls with his prettiness. Was as much an intimidating threat in his monsterious form as Morga, but had more thematic resonance (since Minako killing him her crush forshadows the last chapter) and was just more interesting to watch.

51: Chiral-Achiral

Their atomic based powers were cool but they had no personality to speak off.

50: Vivian

Vivian's cool and is actually a suitable leader for the Dark Agency. Her plan to stir up gang warfare to gather more energy and stir up chaos is handled surprisingly seriously for as goofy a manga as Codename: Sailor V. She was relatively tough fighter for the Dark Agency as well. 

49: Mimete

Mimete was the weakest of the Witches V to the point that Sailor Venus was able to match her attack with her own. The Witches V really do have to be stronger then the Senshi to work effectively since if just one of the Senshi can match them the whole team can just overpower them. That said as a Witch V she is pretty cool with her soul and mind controlling powers and her idol singer shtick made for a fun throwback to Codename: Sailor V. 

48: Eudial

Pretty similar deal to Mimete, though Eudial's deal was leading a secret student cult. Also while Eudial was at least stronger then the Guardian Senshi though Sailor Moon was stronger then her. 

47: Pandora

The Better Musically Themed Dark Agency Agent. Pandora threatened to brainwash all of Japan with her music. Given that she was the chapter 3 threat of Codename Sailor V when the first two villains were Narkissos and...Taku, Pandora started the trend of SM villains to be massive global threats at least. Her cutesy veeneer hiding her monstrous-ness was a neat if somewhat overdone idea. 

46: Petite Pandora

Pandora's little sister who could brainwash men with a wink. She stole all the hot guys for herself, the fiend! Her reaction to finding out that one of the men she had kidnapped was a disguised Sailor V was funny. 

45: Telulu

One of the Witches V and this one is at least strong enough to require the Outer Senshi, which increased her threat level significantly. Her flower traps was quite dangerous and clever and if it wasn't for the power of the outer senshi' connection, it could have killed Sailor Pluto.

44: Viluy

Viluy is pretty similar to Telulu amoungst the Witches V being stronger then Sailor Moon and the Guardian Senshi but weaker then the Outer Senshi (weaker then Telulu as well) but her superintelligence and cold powers makes her a pretty interesting threat. Also she has one of the most brutal attacks in the series, using her nanobots to tear apart her foes at the molecular level as they scream in agony.

43: Zirconia

Nehelenia's projection on the Earth, Zirconia was a surprisingly big threat to the Super Senshi. Zirconia's actions toadying up to Nehelenia belie Nehelenia's inner insecurities. 

42: Berthier

One of the Ayakashi Sisters, the group of 4 time-traveling agents of the Black Moon Clan sent to retrieve "the rabbit" (Chibiusa) and the Guardian Senshi. The Ayakashi get props for actually having some success in their mission and kidnapping the Senshi.  Berthier is the chess-playing intellectual of the group. She was a pretty effective threat and test of confidence for Sailor Mercury. Ami was legit smarter then Berthier, but Berthier knew better psychology and tried to trick Ami into doubting herself.

41: Koan

Koan distinguishes herself from the other Ayakashi by just being a complete psychopath (like murdering a child for literally no reason other then it amused her). She is Rei's counterpart. Both tell fortunes but while Rei is all about self-empowerment and encourages working on yourself to become better Koan gives predictions of dark inevitability like telling people they will die young. 

40: Petz

Jupiter's equivalent of the Ayakashi. Petz is a physical powerhouse beyond most of the Ayakashi and while she prefers the direct method (including getting into a cool electrical melee with Jupiter) her plan of using biological warfare, spreading a crippling disease while also causing a thunderstorm to force people to huddle together indoors and spread the disease was an evil genius plan. 

39: Prince Diamond

A villain I love to hate. Prince Diamond is a psycho genocidal rapist terrorist. He's also so immature that upon realizing he couldn't win he tried to end the entire universe. How is he more immature then Black Lady?! Even Black Lady realized that ending the universe was bad for everyone herself included. It's like the worst of humanity had arranged itself together in him and he acts the most appallingly of all the villains of the SM villains and so it's fun to see him get so thoroughly beaten twice. He's a major threat making him quite intimidating even outside of his mindset, being arguably stronger in raw power then even Death Phantom (considering that Sailor Moon one-on-oned Death Phantom but needed help to beat Prince Diamond). After seeing him attempt to rape Usagi, seeing Usagi and Mamoru channel their powers together to defeat him, their pure love destroying him is incredibly rewarding. 

38: Sailor Chi and Sailor Phi

The worst of Galaxia's roster, Galaxia's prime generals Chi and Phi are still pretty good, if only because they're so ridiculously powerful that it take two of the strongest senshi in the universe; Eternal Sailor Moon and Sailor Kakyuu to team up and fight together to beat them. Their devotion to Galaxia is also a nice character trait. 

37: Esmeraude

A court member of the Black Moon Clan Esmeraude wanted Prince Diamond for herself (for god know what reason) and was jealous he instead wanted Usagi, giving her a personal reason to go after her. She's a haughty personality contrasted her with her desire for Diamond's love. She was also a fairly decent fighter. 

36: Calaveras

Venus' Ayakashi equivalent, she has an interesting power of channeling spirits for their powers. She tried to turn the people of the Earth against the people of the White Moon (Serenity's people) in an actually clever plan and her desire to get vengeance for her sisters was understandable. Also she had a seemingly perfectly loving relationship with fellow villain Rubeus which was sweet. 

35: The Weaver Stars

The best villains from Chibiusa's picture diary, without question. Oh Takeuchi-Hime, your hilarious feminism parody is indeed hilarious. Never change. 

Not but seriously, I feel like if more of the "men are scum" types read this chapter as a child we could be avoided this nonsense. 

34: Kaorinite

The Head Witch, Kaorinite is suitably creepy with her dark chants and enchantments and her reviving the Witches V as giant wax figurines. Her daimon form makes her even scarier. She was threatening enough that it took Super Sailor Moon to kill her. She's also a better fanservice villain then the previous villain devoted to fanservice Hibiscusy.

33: Princess Lin-Lin

Turning everybody in China into a murderous villain....are you sure she's not the Communist Chinese Party. :P Ok that's enough politics for now. Lin-Lin is the first Codename Sailor V villain to actually post some threat to a full power Sailor V (and she appears in chapter 15 of 16). She's got cool powers like summoning a Chinese Dragon Spirit and like a lot of SM villainess she's got an unrequited crush, this time on Danburite.

32: Cyprine-Ptilol

The strongest of the Witches V (she is a dual entity), Cyprine-Ptilol was so strong that she required Sailor Moon transform into Super Sailor Moon for the first time in order to beat her. Not even the Outer Senshi could beat her. Her ability to make even the Sailor Senshi battle each other for her amusment made her quite the scary threat.

31: JunJun

JunJun is one of the Amazoness Quartet, a group of children given eternal childhood and immaturity in exchange for serving Nehelenia who basically just prank the Senshi and be annoying brats. JunJun is the boyish one.

30: VesVes

One of the Amazoness Quartet. She's the impulsive, often angry, arrogant one. 

29: CereCere

One of the Amazoness Quartet. She was the elegant ladylike one as well as their mature leader.

28: PallaPalla

One of the Amazoness Quartet. She was the childish crybaby one. She was always the psycho one that liked pulling the heads off dolls. Terrifyingly enough she was the best at magic. Easily the scariest of the four.

27: Cyber Girl Warrior Lurga

The Heroine of a Virtual Reality Fighting Game and secretly Agent of the Dark Agency she drained energy through her video game and also brainwashed people through it. She was a threat to all of humanity unless someone could beat her at her own fighting game. She also teleported Sailor V inside her game to battle which was really cool. Lurga was a really cool villain concept even if she is basically also the "my video game is haunted" creepypasta :P

26: Saphir

The Woobie Supergenius little brother of Diamond who's often beleagured by his older brother's short-sighted orders and hostile nature. Easily one of the villains most SM fangirls want to "redeem" because he's cute and has been through so much unjustified suffering. Also there's a really intense and sad scene where he angrily yells at Sailor Moon how she and her damned silver crystal messed up human history and made his brother obsessed and how she's the reason everything went down. 

25: Rubeus

The contrast between 90s Anime Rubeus and Manga Rubeus is incredible. 90s Anime Rubeus exploited the Ayakashi sisters, using them as his personal harem before discarding them when he was done with them. Manga Rubeus is in as far as we can tell a fairly loving relationship with Calaversa and is a noble commander who goes into the field with his agents (the Ayakashi). He's incredibly loyal to his prince Diamond but was smart enough to be suspicious of Wiseman who was manipulating the Prince. 

24: Sailor Aluminum Seiren

*sigh* The Shadow Galactica are such cool villains! Aluminum Seiren is the alien from the planet Mermaid who killed Sailor Mermaid and took her crystal which Galaxia gave her the power to use. She was an overbearing power to the Eternal Sailor Senshi by drawing on the power of Galaxia and misdirecting their powers to hit each other. Her powers struck like the tsunami of her attack "Galactica Tsunami". Her personality being kind of underdeveloped is the only reason she's so low for a Sailor Animamate (note manga only, her 90s anime version was quite different).

23: Zoisite

Put your pitchforks down. Yes I'm rating Zoisite lowest of the four heavenly kings. Please remember this is the manga version, not the 90s anime version. Ok? Ok. The Kings can be arranged in a two by two of the matrix. Two of them are rational planner cerebral threats and two are passionate warrior physical threats. Two of them are loyal to Queen Beryl and Two disobey her orders. Zoisite is the rebellious planner combo being a little schemer that tries to advance himself however possible. That said he dies in two chapters and while his plans are good there's not much else to say for him. 

22: Jadeite

Jadeite is also one of the four kings. He's the loyal planner combo, coming up with schemes to best gather energy in the face of the Senshi threat. His loyalty to Beryl is one of his defining features across versions. I think his powers were a little more unique then Zoisite's. 

21: Sailor Iron Mouse

"Gangster Mouse" as people tend to call her has all the strength and coolness of one of Galaxia's Henchmen while also being really cute trying to be all serious while she's looking like she does.

20: Sailor Tin Nyanko

Tin Nyanko is one of the few Mautions we see in the series like Luna and Artemis. She tried to infiltrate Usagi's class and was one most of the threatening of the series, even managing to sow distrust of the Sailor Starlights in Usagi saying basically that "girls who pretend to be boys" (aka the Starlights who are female but were disguised as male to not attract Galaxia) are duplicitous and not to be trusted. 

19: Sailor Lead Crow

Sailor Lead Crow of the planet Coronis gives the most information on the nature of being one of the Sailor Animamates. I like her design the most with her white outfit and giant black crow wings. She truly was an archetypal harbinger of death, which is possibly why she was the most intimidating of the of the Sailor Animamates. 

18: Nephrite

Nephrite is the second of the kings, introduced after Jadeite and being opposite him. He's a rebellious warrior, a hot-head that follows his impulses, can barely be contained, and enjoys fighting and hates being told what to do. Despite being his opposite he was close friends with Jadeite and was outraged at the Senshi killing him. He's very entertaining to watch and his shadow powers are pretty interesting.

17: Sailor Lethe

Part of the twin guardians of Galaxia's moat, Lethe joined Galaxia's side to bring peace and stability, even if tyrannial in order to protect her weak-hearted sister. Lethe was ruthless in the protection of her sister, even taking away Sailor Moon's memories with the river of oblivion and being willing to kill her. 

16: Heavy Metal Papillion

The Caretaker of Galaxia's "garden of souls" Heavy Metal Papillion is a figure shrouded in mystery. She takes souls and controls them, as her symbol the butterfly is the symbol of death and life at once. She is noted as being an erotic personality and a mother (one of the only two senshi in the series confirmed to be a mother) showing her association with life while also being a hunter and a the keeper of the graveyard associated with death. 

15: Sailor Mnesmonye

One of the twin Sailor Senshi guarding Galaxia's moat. Lethe's weak-hearted gentle twin sister. Sailor Lethe, despite being an agent of the Guardian of Destruction is very merciful, protecting Usagi from her sister and restoring Usagi and her friends' memories with the help of the river of memories. Lethe clearly never wants to hurt anyone and shows that even among any group, there is kindness.

14: Kunzite

The last of the Four Heavenly Kings. Kunzite is the loyal warrior combination. He's is Beryl's loyal Knight, her right hand, her dark champion. It is great seeing him challenge the Senshi to battle by draining all power from Tokyo. He's a really threatening villain since even the fully awoken senshi struggled to fight him, he's really entertaining to watch with his over the top battle declarations, and he's got sympathetic traits like his loyalty to his monarch.

13: Professor Tomoe/Germatoid

Once there was a mad scientist, shunned from all credible establishments for his immoral scientific testing. A moral relativist, he viewed nothing as sacred or morally off-limits. When a fire took his wife and left his daughter scarred and dying, Professor Tomoe replaced young Hotaru Tomoe's body with cybernetics. But Hotaru's natural fraility meant this was not working and she was still going to die. All seemed lost Pharaoh 90, the alien overlord of the Tau Nebula, psychically contacted Professor Tomoe and offered to give him the seeds of it's "children" daimon to stabilize Hotaru and to make them both superhumans. Tomoe implanted the seeds of Mistress 9 into Hotaru and the seed of Germatoid into himself. Professor Tomoe is an amazing villain, a credible mental and physical threat (due to Germatoid), a morally reprehensible person who preformed his most immoral act in the service of his most sympathetic goal. 

12: Black Lady

Black Lady is what happens if a little girl picked on her whole life is given dark magical powers and has her worst side become her only side. Black Lady is a magically superpowerful brat that's just incredible to see in action with her exclamations that nothing matters except getting what she wants. Everything about her is so elegantly immature. Her "sexy" dress is a little girl's understanding of what grown women wear. She is understandable and yet so easy to route against. Black Lady is many fans' favorite part of the second arc, and for a completely understandable reason.

11: Danburite

Danburite was a simple Venusian Soldier back in the days of the Moon Kingdom. He fell in love with the princess of Venus, Sailor Venus, but could get her attention as a lowly soldier. He joined the Dark Kingdom to elevate his position so he could confront her as an equal and win her love. I love how much Danburite plays with being both a villain and a hero, helping Minako sometimes and also sending out much of her threats in Codename Sailor V. The Battle between Sailor V/Sailor Venus and Danburite which is half battle, half an elaborate romantic flirting gone wrong, is just incredible. 

10: Queen Beryl

Easily the most iconic Sailor Moon Villain, Queen Beryl is the best modern depiction of the evil witch archetype I've seen. Once a humble sorceress of the Earth, she loved the Prince of the Earth Endymion. However when Endymion fell in love, against the laws of the gods, with the princess of the moon Serenity, Beryl with jealousy swore to slay Serenity and take Endymion with her own. She made a barter with the Goddess of Darkness, Queen Metaria for dark magic and became Queen Beryl, Queen of the Dark Kingdom of Earth. In the manga she's a lot more intimidating then most versions, a dark oracle that speaks cryptic omens of doom. She's a powerful force in any scene she's in. She's also got the most metal death of any Sailor Moon foe get stabbed by a radioactive holy sword tougher then diamond before disintegrating. 

9: Mistress 9

Commander of the Tau Nebula, beloved of the Chaos-Spawn Pharaoh 90, Mistress 9 is a incredibly driven creature. She's incredibly intimidating and powerful, to the point two super sailor senshi still couldn't beat her. She can rip souls out making her an immediate threat to anyone she's in the scene with for her entire appearance in the third arc. Not only is she powerful she's creepy, especially in her true form. While she's not as iconic as Queen Beryl, she's more understandable in her desire to please Pharaoh 90 and she was a tougher threat even adjusting for what arc she was in. 

8: Dark Endymion

Dark Endymion and had the traits of a great villain. He's a powerhouse, able to battle all the first arc Senshi at once and being stronger then Beryl. He's got cool powers and says cool dark declarations. And while he's not very sympathetic, he is being brainwashed by Metaria so you don't want to see him killed. Dark Endymion has such a huge impact on the series, that the whole plotline of Sailor Moon having to fight her former beloved turned evil is considered one of the most iconic plotlines of Sailor Moon. It was so popular it became widely influential on the genre afterwards which is why "magical boyfriend turns evil and now protagonist-chan has to fight him :O !!!" is a somewhat overused magical girl plot.

7: Pharaoh 90

We're getting into the Chaos-Spawn so you know we're talking the big leagues here. Pharaoh 90 perfectly bridges the goofy c-list science-fiction wacky "invaders from the other dimension type alien and the deadly serious and incomprehensible Lovecraftian arcane entities from other dimensions. Pharaoh 90 is the psychic overlord of the Tau Nebula in another dimension and planned to infest the earth with it's children the daimon so it could assimilate the planet as their new homeworld to take over the universe in a giant singularity of life. Pharaoh 90 like all the chaos-spawn has such a cool cosmic powerset and theme that it instantly makes them such an incredible climactic final final of each arc. Each Chaos-Spawn could easily be the final villain of most stories and they would still be way above average for a final villain just because they're so cool and interesting to watch.

6: Death Phantom

Another one of the Chaos-Spawn, this one a living black hole. Already that concept sounds great but Death Phantom follows up with being an intellectual mastermind, as well as seemingly the SM version of the Antichrist. It's backstory is really interesting, how it was actually born as a human who restarted crime in the paradise that was Crystal Tokyo and how in exile it fused with the planet nemesis turning it into a Black Hole. It's ultimate goal of eventually engulfing the entire cosmos in it's singularity eliminating all differentiation is horrific but also surprisingly understandable for a living Black Hole's motivation.

5: Snow Kaguya

Takeuchi-Hime has mentioned that the Kaguya short story is her favorite and I am very inclined to agree. Snow Kaguya is a thematic cosmic threat that's actually not a Chaos-Spawn but is so well made I could imagine her being one. Her ultimate goal is to freeze the universe and stop all change so everyone can dream pleasant dreams frozen in her magic ice for all time. Not being a Chaos-Spawn means she actually has emotions and while she's ultimately a villain that gets destroyed, in the course of the single story she appears in she expresses love, sadness, anger, isolation and other human emotions. Snow Kaguya is as beautiful a villain concept as a landscape of fresh snow.

4: Queen Nehelenia

The only living entity from the time of the Silver Millenium, because she was sealed in another dimension when Sailor Saturn ended all life. Queen Nehelenia is one of the Chaos-Spawn, the queen of nightmares. During the Silver Millenium, Chaos sent Queen Nehelenia who lived within the moon to counsel with Queen Serenity the first, offering that light and dark, good and evil, cosmos and chaos could make peace and join together. Queen Serenity the first not willing to allow her subjects to suffer darkness and evil even for peace refused and sealed away Nehelenia beginning the long war between the cosmos and chaos. 

Nehelenia is an interesting thematic villain, the lady of mirrors and nightmares, who wants to turn the universe into another dark universe of nightmares reflecting her beauty. She is incredibly vain and sometimes seemingly human, but she in reality is no more human then the reflection in your mirror is a human. Her powerset is strange even for the context of Sailor Moon capable of doing things like trapping people within their own attacks. She holds incredible significance for the universe being the favored daughter/aspect of Chaos. 

3: Queen Metaria

My favorite of the Chaos-Spawn. Queen Metaria is the Goddess of Darkness and the destroyer of the Moon Kingdom. She is darkness incarnate that absorbs energy and sadistically tortures people so in their suffering they will release more energy for her to feed and grow on. Queen Metaria bridges the gap between an "EVIL" villain who does this for evil's sake and an alien entity with a legitimate value system that is just hard understand. She is a monster that causes pain and suffering to make her grow stronger so she can cause most pain and suffering, a perpetual motion machine of malice. Queen Metaria helped me as a young girl shape my understanding of what evil was, of the cold dark sterility that evil is at heart, a move against the warmth, and light and togetherness of the universe. Metaria is a physical-ization of the abstraction of evil and most perfectly represents the idea of the Chaos-Spawn.

2: Chaos

Metaria, Death Phantom, Pharaoh 90, and Nehelenia are but aspects of....it. What is it? It is Chaos, the void from before. Chaos is the ultimate threat conceptually, the non-existence that seeks to reincorporate existence into nothingness. It is that which never was. The Gaping Primordial Void. Making Chaos the ultimate villain raised the story to the heightest level of power it could go conceptually because there can be no philosophical struggle greater then the fundamental battle between is and is not. Chaos is an intellectually stimulating, emotionally gripping concept that is personified extremely well, the void that seeks to reincorporate what is back into itself. How could anything be a greater villain then Chaos? There is a villain not necessarily more powerful then Chaos but who is an even greater villain. 

1: Sailor Galaxia 

Sailor Galaxia isn't just one of my favorite villains of all time, she is one of my favorite characters of all time.

Born to a desert trash planet ravaged by sandstorms, Galaxia awoke as the Soldier of Destruction, a Senshi with the power to bring destruction unto anything in the cosmos, in fact did bring destruction to everything she came close too. The world shattered all around her like fragile sand while she along was immortal. Searching for a purpose she came across as Chaos and realized Chaos, the root of all evil, was the reason everything was so corrupted and weak. If she could claim the Silver Crystal of Creation and use it in combination with her Crystal of Destruction she could become supreme ruler of the universe and create a perfect world for her to rule. The Golden Queen Galaxia became the all-controlling-tyrant spreading her reach across the stars. 

Galaxia is everything one could possibly want in a villain. She's over the top while also being subtle. She steals the scene in every scene with her loud declarations of her glory that are somehow also factually accurate despite being ludicrous. She's endless entertaining with her arrogant demeanor and casual cosmic power. She's compelling and really makes you think about the psychology of a godlike entity in her position. And there's so much more to talk about with Sailor Galaxia.

Sailor Galaxia is above Chaos because Chaos despite being conceptually the highest tier of villain is a cold abstraction, a static figure that exists as a conceptual threat more then any kind of real tangible threat to our heroine. But Galaxia's threat transcends planes. She is a physical threat as she constantly attacks Usagi and kills her friends to prove her power. She is an emotional and mental threat as she tries to attack Usagi's sanity. She is a spiritual threat as she corrupts and corrudes the galaxy to her savage ambition. And she remains a conceptual threat, a destruction equal to Usagi's creation. Galaxia is anything but a static figure, she is a constant active threat with a villain character arc greater then any character arc save Usagi's and Usagi's stretches over 60 chapters while Galaxia's in a single arc. Sailor Galaxia is just wonderful, a villain that has the utmost in every category a villain can be great.