Usagi's Profile
Usagi is probably the most human of all of the senshi. She's a crybaby and even admits it; is happiest when she's eating and sleeping; and does very poor in school work, a very bad thing in Japan. She's clumsy, is somewhat boy-crazy, and is easily distracted from both things she does and does not like.
But as the story matures, so does Usagi. She learns how to be stronger; and how to control her weaknesses --to an extent. She still bawls like a baby at the end of the show over little things--like Rei being so mean to her, even though we all know that Rei loves Usagi and the other way around. Usagi loves her friends dearly, and has a special relationship with each and every one of them.
The thing that I like most of Usagi is her heart of gold. She always tries to help everyone, and she does her best to see that this world is kept clean from great evil even should she lose her life in the attempt. She is not vain; she does not seem to consider the fact that if she dies, there wouldn't be any Sailormoon to rescue the world. For all the fighting she does, Usagi still manages to retain her sweet innocence and child-like nature (which I absolutely adore!).
As Rei said before she died in episode 197, "You are too kind-hearted to be a strong senshi." Usagi is weak without her friends, but this, in its own special way, is also a strength. Having to rely on friends, and then to lose them, she has to seek new friends. ^__^ And the only place she is going to find them is in her enemies.
Yes, she winds up killing most of the evil people in the manga while she forgives them in the anime. This is because her main priority in the manga is to protect those she loves regardless of anyone who gets in her way while her main priority in the anime is to love everyone! She is a loyal friend however, and is always fetching after her fellow senshi whenever they got kidnapped or are in trouble (sometimes, in her old clumsy way, it is the other way around, but that's okay. That's what friends are for! To make sure that your backend stays out of the frying pan, and if it does slip, then to run and get the bandages ^__^).
Usagi: Overrated or simply Misunderstood?
I believe that this should go here in her profile because this is the best place for it. Recently, I read somewhere on another profile that she was too overrated. This person ranted and raved about how people said that she was so pure and such, when in all actuality, she wasn't. [no, you're thinking of Miaka . . .]
"Like when Makoto first showed up in school," the person said. "People said Usagi was the only person who was kind enough to approach her, when in fact she was only after Makoto's lunch!" Okay, you have a point there, mister.
But--and please note there is a but--Naoko Takeuchi purposely made it so that Usagi was not perfect. While her intentions may be pure, her actions might not be. In the manga, Usagi is not all that selfish, she is more concerned for the other person (actually, Makoto had saved her from being hit by a truck and she recognized her for that). She becomes a somber and aloof person as time passes in the manga, while Anime Usagi is . . . well, not.
In the DiC version, she did not express an interest in the food but in Lita (Makoto). In the Japanese version, it was the nicety of the food that attracted her. After all, how such a nice-looking lunch belong to such a nasty person? I believe this was what was behind Usagi's "greedy" actions.
But Usagi has made sacrifices, such as in the R movie. She was going to stop at nothing to stop the meteorite and save her friends who were on it. Or how about the last episode of the SuperS season when she jumped from that floating platform to catch Chibiusa when Nephernia had thrown her from it? Or, speaking of Nephernia, in the SailorStars episode where she told the queen to take everything out on her and not her friends. Usagi gladly took the beatings, and then healed Nephernia. And in order for Usagi to reach Nephernia in that episode, she had to walk barefoot through snow and horrible-looking thorns! (well, actually she was going after Mamoru, but it follows the same concept)
Usagi can be dense at times and her methods aren't the greatest in the world. But they are straightforward, and have the purity can only come from someone whose intentions are good and her desire out of it is that everything will turn out all right in the end, whether or not she benefits from it.
And you know what? Those are the best intentions.