Mars Snake Fire

Mars Snake Fire gives Sailor Mars a fire strike built around a living coil of flame that she casts toward an opponent. The move turns up in the manga, the Sera Myu musicals, Crystal, and a handful of video games, and it later develops into her Mars Flame Sniper. The kanji chosen for it in the manga reads as something close to Snake Blaze.

The manga debuts the attack in Act 28 against Eudial, with Sailor Mars forging a fiery snake and driving it at her target. Crystal restages the moment in its adaptation of the same chapter, though there Eudial manages to fling the flames back at both Mars and Sailor Jupiter. In that version she gathers fire around herself, draws it into her hand, and throws it so that it takes serpent shape mid-flight before striking. Stage productions first used it to destroy Death Ru, one of the Death Mannetjes, and in Another Story it ranks among her strongest options, hitting a lone enemy at a cost of six energy points.

Sailor Mars is the technique's only user. It shares the animal-shaped fire concept with her earlier anime move Fire Soul Bird, in which the flames she released instead formed a screeching phoenix during the second season's Makai Tree arc. A brief glimpse of Mars performing Snake Fire also opens the first Sailor Moon S title sequence.