Sailor Stars: The Game Show of Doom

Sailor Stars: The Game Show of Doom is an upcoming stop motion crossover fan fiction film which is the third film of the third arc (and the 20th overall) of the Sailor Moon Cinematic Universe by KB Fan Fiction. The film is based on the video games [https://sailormoon.fandom.com/wiki/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon_S:_Kotaete_Moon_Call! Sailor Moon S - Kotaete Moon Call] and [https://sailormoon.fandom.com/wiki/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon_S:_Quiz_Taiketsu!_Sailor_Power_Ketsushuu ''Sailor Moon S: Quiz Taiketsu! Sailor Power Ketsushuu''] and has a plot based on [https://jimmyneutron.fandom.com/wiki/Win_Lose_and_Kaboom! The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Win Lose and Kaboom].

Plot
Mysterious space rocks are falling onto different worlds, in which one falls onto a square in Juuban District on planet Earth. Usagi Tsukino and the Inner Senshi discover the space rock. Usagi wants to investigate the rock but Rei Hino feels suspicious about the rock. The rock is then taken to the Juuban Planetarium where it is studied by Setsuna Meiou. Setsuna discovers that a set of mysterious glyphs on the space rock might be related to those etched on other space rocks that included one that fell onto Malacca in 1511 and another onto Siberia in Russia in 1908 (reference to the Tunguska Event). These historical rocks were destroyed before people got the chance to study them. However, pieces of these space rocks were salvaged and the Russian and Malaccan specimens are brought to Juuban’s archive.

Later, the rock is taken outside the planetarium where the townspeople of Juuban gather to let the President decide what they should do with it. Most agree to blow it up, but with encouragement from Usagi and Minako Aino and a decision suggested by Professor Souichi Tomoe, who had reformed and became the president of the planetarium’s astrophysics department, the rock is made into a decoration for the planetarium. Meanwhile, Setsuna, joined by Haruka Tenou, Michiru Kaioh and Hotaru Tomoe, sought the help of Professor Tomoe to study the strange glyphs on the rock. Souichi and Setsuna find out that the rock is in fact a message from an entity named “Quiz” who chooses the first ones to discover the rock to join an intergalactic game show.

Meanwhile, Usagi, Chibiusa and the Inner Senshi go camping at the beach when Usagi receives Setsuna’s message about the code. Once Usagi reads the message, she and the Inner Senshi see a gigantic UFO which abducts them. Nearby, Professor Tomoe studied the UFO closely and discovered that a Demon is hiding in the UFO. In the Tomoe residence, Haruka, Michiru and Hotaru test out a new TV cable purchased by Professor Tomoe that receives a multitude of television channels across the world and the galaxy.

Inside the UFO, Usagi, Chibiusa and the Inner Senshi found out that they are selected by Quiz, a bubbly game show host, to join a life-threatening game show called “Cosmic Showdown”. Ami Mizuno receives a report from Professor Tomoe through her smart visor and computer that Quiz is in fact one of the first Demons he created during his years in the defunct Death Busters program, originating from a quiz book. Quiz then uses the UFO’s communication jammers to broadcast her game show to all of Earth and even beyond.

The first event they joined is a survival event where the contestants must go through an obstacle course while dunking orbs into the enemy’s goal post. Throughout the event, Usagi and the team find trouble while competing against their more powerful opponents, causing them to finish the first round in last place. As a punishment for getting into last place in the first round, the Senshi are forced to vote off one member of their team. At their Survivor-like tribal council, Usagi feels useless since she caused the others to lose the first game. Usagi, Rei and Chibiusa become tied with votes. In the end, Chibiusa is eliminated in a 2-2-3 vote, surprising the other Senshi after finding out that Chibiusa voted herself out. As a result, she is strapped onto the Elimination Wheel, a spinning metal disc (similar to a wheel of fortune) with an arrow pointing to decide her fate. She is sentenced to the airlock ejection port after the arrow lands on “Airlock”. Chibiusa is later sent to the UFO’s airlock ejection port and will be ejected into space at the end of the game. After a brief negotiation, Quiz agrees to give the Senshi Team another chance to win, but Chibiusa will be ejected if they lose.

The remaining Senshi next competes with the Antenna life forms in an eating competition, where the food choices are decided from a spinning wheel. One of the Antenna life forms (nicknamed “George” by Quiz) choked on a cake. Usagi feels determined to finish it for the team as she could stomach anything according to the rest of the team. Usagi gets an extraterrestrial carrot, and, with encouragement from her friends to overcome her fear of carrots, she takes a bite out of it; winning an important point for the Senshi team (despite faking it). Chibiusa is released and is allowed to return to the team. Usagi later calls Setsuna from the UFO about their location.

The next game is a race against space rock-like life forms called Magnavators, who lure them into a trance, disqualifying Chibiusa from the race after she attempts to stop the Magnavators from changing the course of the race. Chibiusa uses the UFO’s airlock ejection port to head back to nearby planet Earth and inform the Outer Senshi about Usagi’s whereabouts.

By the time Chibiusa had reached the Juuban district, she discovers that the Magnavators’ trance caused her to find that Juuban is different and unusual, with all the people missing. Things get from bad to worse. The street signs in the city are all blank. There are no clouds in the sky whatsoever. The moon is superimposed with Quiz’s face, which Setsuna denotes it is an astronomical impossibility. The Outer Senshi reunite with Chibiusa, who tells them about the face on the Moon being Quiz the Demon. Then, they heard haunting voices at the planetarium. They run to the planetarium, but no one was inside. Professor Tomoe emerged behind the giant orrery, but his eyes are not in a usual place; his eyes are in a position that defies the optical structure of the human eye. The professor began to act like a zombie, beginning to chant the word “kill” and chase Chibiusa and the Outer Senshi as they run.

As they leave the Planetarium, everything was now devoid of the parts of the city except the Planetarium. Later, Mamoru and the Starlights, followed by the missing townspeople, had also become zombies and chanting the same word “kill” due to the trance, and began to attack Chibiusa and the Outer Senshi. With the help of Setsuna’s Time Stop ability, Chibiusa manages to break the trance using Moon Crystal Power, eventually setting the Outer Senshi, Usagi and the Inner Senshi free from its effects and causing Professor Tomoe, Mamoru, the Starlights and the townspeople to return back to normal. Realising that the Magnavators are about to win, Usagi and the Senshi Team continue the race, eventually beating the Magnavators to the finish line.

Back at the UFO, Quiz announces that the Senshi Team had tied with a team of Pyrite Youmas and they must take part in a tiebreaker round, the Trivia Showdown. The teams are given five questions, each for a team member. The scores are tied after many questions, and it is time for a tiebreaker round between the Pyrite leader and Usagi. The Pyrite beats Usagi to smashing the Gong of Trivia, but answers the question incorrectly, causing it to be ejected into space. Then Usagi is up, and out of the blue, the Outer Senshi arrived at the scene, and Setsuna, having remembered the past events of the Cinematic Universe, becomes the team's lifeline and answers Usagi's question for her. This causes the Sailor Senshi Team to win the grand prize, a spaceship. Unfortunately, Quiz announced her plan to blow up the other planets in the Solar System, which causes Usagi to tell everyone that Quiz is a Demon and the Sailor Senshi are here to end Quiz’s show forever. Chibiusa and the Outer Senshi arrive at the UFO to confront Quiz.

The Senshi Team engage Quiz in a great battle in the UFO, which culminated in Chibiusa throwing a pie onto Quiz’s face to weaken the Demon. In the battle, the Senshi received a report from Professor Tomoe that Quiz gets her energy from a giant battery inside the UFO. In response, Chibiusa uses her Pink Sugar Heart Attack to destroy the battery, causing it to crash land on the Moon and weaken Quiz. The Senshi Team finally defeat Quiz and turn her back into a quiz book. Our heroes return home safe and sound with the prize spaceship and the planets are saved forever.

In a post-credit scene, another space rock falls down to the shopping district with another message, this time about an upcoming threat.

Cast

 * Usagi Tsukino is Sailor Moon
 * Ami Mizuno is Sailor Mercury
 * Minako Aino is Sailor Venus
 * Rei Hino is Sailor Mars
 * Makoto Kino is Sailor Jupiter
 * Hotaru Tomoe is Sailor Saturn
 * Haruka Tenou is Sailor Uranus
 * Michiru Kaioh is Sailor Neptune
 * Setsuna Meiou is Sailor Pluto
 * Chibiusa Tsukino is Sailor Chibi Moon
 * Luna
 * Artemis
 * Diana
 * Professor Souichi Tomoe
 * Quiz, one of the first Demons created in the Death Busters program

Reappearing Youma/Demons
In the film, several Youma and Demons return as spectators or contestants in Quiz’s game show. Some of these original Youma and Demons were cut from the final version of their intended film appearances.
 * Antenna life forms from Initial U
 * Magnavators, space rock-like life forms from Sailor Stars: Lost in Space
 * Pyrite, a Youma from Flame Sniper
 * Zekira, a Youma cut from appearing in Neptune’s Trident: The Sunken Realm
 * Peratos, a Demon from Flame Sniper: Fire Soul Bird
 * Acid Demon, a Youma cut from appearing in Flame Sniper
 * Ribbolar, a Youma cut from appearing in Setsuna’s Journey: The Case of the Disappearing Star

Cameos
In the film, some characters made cameos as either the attendants of the planetarium gathering or the viewers of Quiz’s program.
 * Mamoru Chiba is Tuxedo Mask
 * Seiya Kou is Sailor Starfighter
 * Yaten Kou is Sailor Starhealer
 * Taiki Kou is Sailor Starmaker
 * Ilya Chernozvezdova, former host of Mistress 9
 * Petz, one of the Ayakashi Sisters
 * Calaveras, one of the Ayakashi Sisters
 * Koan, one of the Ayakashi Sisters
 * Berthier, one of the Ayakashi Sisters
 * Li Qingqing

Trivia

 * The film contains numerous references to films that Steve Oedekerk had contributed in, since its plot is largely based on The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Win Lose and Kaboom.
 * Professor Tomoe is called the "Nutty Professor" by a student in the planetarium meeting.
 * Locations where the space rocks landed according to the Juuban Archive’s historical records:
 * The first rock that entered the Earth’s atmosphere exploded in 1490 and shards of it rained onto China, killing thousands of people. This is a reference to the Ch'ing-yang event.
 * The first rock fell onto Malacca in the year 1511. It was destroyed by the Portuguese the following year and they used the rocks to build A Famosa.
 * The second rock fell onto Siberia, Russia on 30 June, 1908. It was blown up by Russian soldiers days later. This is a reference to the Tunguska Event.
 * The third rock fell onto the USA in 1972, but was destroyed during impact. This is a reference to the Great Daylight Fireball.


 * This is Souichi Tomoe’s second appearance in the Cinematic Universe as a major supporting character, after Mozuton and the Angel of Silence. Souichi made cameos or had smaller roles in Sailor Moon Twin, Guardians of the Talismans and Super Sailor Moon: Secret of the Silver Crystal.


 * The questions asked in the Trivia Showdown seem to break the fourth wall and asked about the events that occurred in the Cinematic Universe.
 * Although the film is titled to be part of the Sailor Stars arc, Tuxedo Mask and the Starlights only had cameo roles in the film.
 * The only cameo who does not speak in the film is Berthier.
 * The song that plays during Usagi and her friends' picnic is Blitzkrieg Bop.
 * In the spinning wheel of the game’s second challenge, there is an image of a Moon Pie.
 * A video game with a similar title as the film appears in the Sailor Moon Omega series, but with a different plot: players control Sailor V, Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi Moon to rescue the other Sailor Senshi who are trapped in a quiz book by Quiz.

References to the Sailor Moon series

 * The film itself is inspired by the video game, Sailor Moon S: Quiz Taiketsu! Sailor Power Ketsushuu.
 * The Inner Senshi are abducted in a similar manner as in episode 72 of the series: A UFO Appears! The Sailor Senshi are Abducted.
 * In the spinning wheel of the game’s second challenge, there are images of several food items from the original Sailor Moon series:
 * The Dark Fruit from an episode of Sailor Moon R, located next to the alien carrot chosen to be eaten by Usagi.
 * The fruit would later inspire a scene in Sailor Stars: Plight of the Firefly where Petz and Calaveras sell fruit to attract intergalactic customers to their cosmetic shop in Dysnomia.
 * A piece of cake from the game Sailor Moon Drops
 * A large bottle of juice
 * When Quiz is hit by the Rainbow Moon Heartache, her last words are, “What a world!”, a reference to the Demons (Daimons) of Sailor Moon S shouting the word “Lovely” when they are hit by the same attack.

References to real-life films

 * The film’s picnic scene is a reference to the beginning of the movie Happy Ghost (1984).
 * When Quiz realizes that her UFO’s broadcaster is not working, Quiz says that “I should have made sure that the plus end went to the plus part and the minus end went to the minus part”. This is a reference to a scene from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins.


 * The first round of the game show is inspired by the first round in the Scare Games from the film Monsters University (2013). Usagi’s team finished last, similar to the film protagonists’ Oozma Kappa team (just before rival team Jaws Theta Chi got eliminated due to using an illegal protective gel).
 * The beast in the cave during the first round is a reference to the Killer Rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
 * The jingle that played during the intermission when Cosmic Showdown was aired on the TV is from the ending of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
 * The elimination voting session is a parody of Survivor.
 * The elimination spinning wheel is based on the spinning wheel from the film Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.


 * The eating competition is based on Fear Factor.
 * The Trivia Showdown is a parody of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and the contestant screen resembles the original interface from the said show. The series' music plays in the background.

Real-life references

 * A modified version of the Mountain Dew logo is seen at Quiz’s UFO.
 * An advertisement for Coca-Cola is seen at Juuban district.
 * The number A113 is seen on the prize spaceship.

Quotes

 * "“That’s… delicious…” ~ Usagi, after taking a bite out of the alien carrot."
 * "“I should have made sure that the plus end went to the plus part and the minus end went to the minus part.” ~ Quiz, after realizing that the jammer from her UFO isn’t working due to the power batteries being installed wrongly."
 * "“What a world…” ~ Quiz’s laborious last words, just after she is hit by Super Sailor Moon’s Rainbow Moon Heartache."