Terror in Motion: The Dark Queen's Evil Hand

The thirty-fourth SuperS episode escalates the search for Pegasus as Nehelenia, fed up with the Amazoness Quartet's failures to locate the Golden Mirror, cloaks the city in webs and darkness. Because the Golden Crystal belongs to the kingdom of Earth, the corruption sends waves of agony through Mamoru, whose bond to the planet as Prince Endymion makes him acutely vulnerable.

When Nehelenia attempts to step out of her mirror, daylight scorches her hand and drives her back, prompting her to blanket Tokyo in spider webs reminiscent of what befell Elysion. Ami traces the webbing to the Dead Moon Circus tent, where the guardians find the Quartet in ordinary clothes, herding people to draw out their Dream Mirrors. Both sides then unmask, each revealing their true selves.

A brief clash follows, and PallaPalla pins the guardians with a voodoo doll until Tuxedo Mask, fighting through his pain, breaks the hold. Zirconia recalls the Quartet just as the Dead Moon begins to eclipse the sun. With Mamoru buckling under the darkness, Pegasus warns the guardians they are not yet ready to enter the Dead Moon and confront the circus's true master.

Compared with the manga, the pain Mamoru suffers from the corruption of Elysion arrives at a different point in the story, and the printed version had the curse make him cough up black blood while also afflicting Helios and eventually Usagi. The combat scene originally scored with "Theme of the Sailor Team" was swapped for a range of substitute tracks across the international dubs, from translated versions to instrumentals of "Moonlight Densetsu."