APPEARANCE
Anime: Darien is tall with dark black hair and blue eyes. He often wears a black shirt with a green jacket and brown pants. In the beginning, he also wears sunglasses. If he isn’t wearing this, he is usually wearing some button down shirt and nice pants. As for his mode of transformation…he doesn’t seem to have one. He just seems to pull out a mask and the rest follows. He wears a fine black tuxedo with a white shirt. He wears black shoes and white gloves. He also wears a top hat, though has appeared without it. The cape is also sometimes disregarded. He usually announces his presence with a red rose and a cheesy one-liner. His main weapon is a cane.
Live action: Mamoru is tall with dark black hair and dark eyes. He often wears dark clothing, generally shirts and pants. He wears a dark jacket and drives a motorcycle. Like his anime counterpart, Mamoru doesn’t have a manner of transformation. He just pulls a mask out of nowhere. His mask is white with sequins and a purple gem in the middle. His tuxedo is the same, complete with cape, hat and gloves. He once again has a rose as his calling card, a cane for a weapon and a cape that works like a shield. When he becomes Endymion, he wears a white suit with large shoulders. There are poofs on said shoulders and he also wears white gloves.
POWERS
Anime: None, except the power of cheesy one-liners!
Live action: None, except the power of wire-fu. When he’s Endymion, he’s pretty capable with a sword.
PERSONALITY
Anime: Darien is a young man who likes to tease Serena, despite not knowing her. We learn he is smart and older, already in college. He’s kind and sensitive. Eventually, he warms up to Serena and stops teasing her so much. He wishes to be a doctor and is often willing to lend a helping hand. As Tuxedo Mask, he’s an enigma. He pops in, rescues Sailor Moon and pops back out. His motives aren’t exactly clear, except that he’s doing it to find out who he is. When he becomes Endymion in the anime, he becomes evil. He doesn’t care who he takes out, even Serena whom he has fallen in love with.
Live action: Mamoru is a young man who keeps crossing paths with Usagi. Unlike the anime, his taunts seem a bit mean-spirited at first—but he may just be blunt. He slowly grows to tolerate Usagi, then like her and finally finds himself in love with her. His taunts go from blunt observations to genuinely affectionate teasing. As Tuxedo Kamen, he’s a bit of an enigma. However, he’s mostly trying to find the Mystical Silver Crystal. He has no lasting memories and a recurring dream. A shadowed figure asks him for the crystal—and he believes that’ll unlock his mystery. His reason for saving Sailor Moon is out of chivalry. When he learns about his past as Endymion, he is the first to reject the notion that the past life will repeat. He is determined to be with Usagi. He also becomes more authoritative and shows he is still a prince.
RELATIONSHIPS
Anime: Darien is established as an orphan, his parents dying in a car crash. He is only seen with Andrew, who shortly disappears with his own girlfriend Rita. After that, he mostly associates with Serena and her friends. He and Serena become like a married couple rather quickly, which is eerie given that her age is only 14. But he is shown to love her deeply and would sacrifice himself to protect her. The same can be said for Serena as well. Though he dated Rei, he comes to view her more like a little sister. In fact, he comes to have a brotherly-type relationship with all the scouts. Darien is also the one the bad girls will go for as well, in this season’s case—Queen Beryl. She brainwashes him and makes him her servant, showing some sort of lust after him. She is only the first in a long line.
Live action: Mamoru is established as having few memories of his childhood. He is close with Motoki, who is a friend from school. He also forms a friendship with Usagi, but is never seen interacting much with the other girls.
Before Usagi, he does have a girlfriend. Her name is Hina and is a childhood friend of Mamoru’s. He promised to marry her when he was younger and sticks by that promise, no matter that he has fallen in love with Usagi. Finally, Hina realizes that Mamoru no longer loves her and is only marrying her out of duty. Her father, though, had promised to pay for Mamoru’s schooling as long as he married Hina. She isn’t vengeful and arranges for Mamoru to still go abroad to study when she breaks their engagement. She is bitter and sends him abroad to be far away from him. He returns to be with Usagi, vowing to love her and prevent the fate of the past life.
Zoicite reaches out to Mamoru once he realizes the other man is his former master. Mamoru tries to bond with each of his former generals, but succeeds mostly with Zoicite. Nephrite obeys him as well while Kuncite is torn over the betrayal from the past life. Jedite chooses to remain loyal to Queen Beryl until the end of the Negaverse. Mamoru tries to befriend them all, trying to rekindle their brotherhood. He does care for them and in turn, they are loyal to him.
PLOT CHANGES
The introduction of Hina added a new dimension to Mamoru and his relationship with Usagi. It showed us his devotion and that he is trustworthy.
Another change is that while Beryl captures Mamoru, she doesn’t brainwash him. She keeps him with her by threatening the generals and drains his life-force, but he remains faithful to Usagi.
Both of these serve as roadblocks to Usagi and Mamoru’s happiness and add more depth to their storyline. 
Darien/Tuxedo Mask
Mamoru/Tuxedo Kamen
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