Jupiter Thunderbolt

This attack sits among Sailor Jupiter's lightning-based moves, though its history is unusual. It began as an unnamed technique in the original manga before the reprint gave it a title, and it later became a fixture of the live-action series. Its power source shifts between continuities, but the throughline is a concentrated bolt of electrical energy.

To fire the move Jupiter reaches out to her planet and pulls down a violent thunderstorm, funneling the charge through the antenna on her tiara. The energy gathers in her hands before she throws a large bolt of whitish current. The live-action series routes it differently, using the Sailor Star Tambourine: she circles the instrument to build power, taps it against her palm, and points it to loose a bolt of green lightning, an approach that echoes the 90s anime's Sparkling Wide Pressure.

Sailor Jupiter is the only user. Her earliest lightning attack in the original manga went unnamed and resembled Supreme Thunder; the reprint gave it the Thunderbolt name, likely to line up with the live-action version, and she uses it just once in Act 5 to destroy Nephrite. Crystal repeats that single Act 5 use against Nephrite and his Youma. In the live-action run it serves as her signature move, appearing twice: alongside Moon Twilight Flash in Act 26 and again against Metalia Endymion in Act 48.