Supreme Thunder

Supreme Thunder is the defining lightning attack of Sailor Jupiter, and it turns up in every incarnation of the Sailor Moon story. The power draws on the Thunder and Lightning Antenna concealed within her tiara, which gathers electricity so she can cast it at a target. It ranks among her earliest and most recognizable moves, later giving way to stronger upgrades.

In its classic anime form, Jupiter folds her arms across her chest, leaving just the index and pinky fingers pointed out. The rod tucked inside her tiara then rises and crackles with charge as lightning pours down from the sky and collects around it, after which she throws her arms wide to fire the bolt at her foe. She sometimes recites an invocation calling on her guardian planet to stir a storm, gather the clouds, and send down the thunder. The Crystal version has her gather green lightning in her hands rather than through the tiara, while the live-action series drops the tiara entirely and has her spin with one leg raised amid flashing light before releasing the strike. Her follow-up upgrades are Supreme Thunder Dragon in the anime and Sparkling Wide Pressure in the manga and Crystal.

Sailor Jupiter is the sole owner of Supreme Thunder throughout the series. Her manga debut with it lands against Zoisite, who had seized hold of Sailor Moon, while the anime introduces it in the episode Jupiter, the Powerful Girl in Love. The live-action series brings it out in Act 6 to destroy the Youma possessing Takeru, and during the desperate clash with the DD Girls she throws it as a self-sacrificing final blow. On stage the move first shows up in Eien Densetsu, aimed at Sailor Phi, Chi, and Theta, and it recurs in later productions and across numerous games. Its many dub titles include Jupiter Thunder Crash in the DiC version, while a famous gag has Sailor Moon mishearing the name as Chou Cream Sundae, a joke Naoko Takeuchi later spun into a short parody comic.