A Very Scary Thought/Tropes

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*Abnormal Ammo: SEELE created bullets made out of Orachachum
*Above Good and Evil: How Lao views her actions she doesn’t see the fact that she is a pirate and human trafficker as criminal but liberating. She is liberating her captives from their old tired ideals and preconceptions. What she does isn’t in violation to the rules of civilized behavior and the Egalitarian ideal that every man and woman is a free and sovereign individual with inalienable rights that must be Universally respected. Because as someone of Chinese descent she is well aware that this concept is far from the norm for human existence.
**An art, by itself, has no moral relevancy at all. It's what you do with the art that can be good or evil. A weapon makes it easier to harm others, and the Senken is a very formidable weapon. Used in the wrong hands i.e by someone who doesn't care a whit about the consequences...it can be a force of great evil, or a force of great good. It all depends on how you use it.
*Absence of Evidence: During the Tale of Two Nabiki’s Side Story Ukyo was the first to notice that ATOT Nabiki was still female upon exiting out of the koi pond.
*Absurdly Sharp Blade: Ryu’s vacuum blades can slice through metal as though it had been cleaved by a broad ax
*Abuse Mistake: Hearing moaning on Lao’s ship Martha rushed to it only to find a naked woman tied up being whipped and saved her only for Carmaine to promptly yelled at her for cutting her penalization short.
*Abusive Parents:
**Kuno and kodachi’s mother wasn't really all that nice a person. She taught Kodachi gymnastics with the intent of making her Olympic level, but she was too much of a perfectionist and when 'Dachi didn't do things as good as she was supposed to she'd...um...get punished pretty bad. Their father was never around to look after them, and that's partly why her mind snapped.
**Akira was pretty angry when Genma left Ukyo behind, taking the Yatai with him. He told her she probably did not seem like much of a prize to Genma because she didn't know how to act like a lady. He didn't exactly make it easy for her to find out. He’s always treated Ukyo like she was his son, but that insult made her feel small and insignificant. That's when she decided she wasn't ever going to grow up to be a woman! She'd be the boy he wanted her to be, and she was never going to marry!
**Hippolyta has lied to Diana from the day she was born first with the lie that the amazons were the reborn spirits of woman killed and that she was made of clay. This caused Diana to subconsciously holdback her abilities as she wasn’t aware of her true heritage. When found out Hippolyta claimed was Hercules child by rape. It’s reached the point where Diana rarely trusts anything her mother says.
:: Aiko: You calling my Grandmother a liar?
:: 
Hercules: In a word, Yes.
:: 
Aiko: So did Mom, and she knew her better than anybody else. So...Grampa...what's your side of the story? What really did happen?
**Mima Murao subjected his daughter Tokiko to a cruel experiment that infused her body with compacted soul matter, approximately thirty-thousand times the concentration of an ordinary human being.
**While Lao is shown to be a loving mother she still forcibly changed Breeze’s gender using Jusenkyo and raises her in a harem under the belief that all abusers are male.
**Lotion the Younger’s mother Balm regularly beat her for having no talent in martial arts
**Played with even though she was still a new born Shampoo Ukyo and Perfume didn’t seem to have any problems performing sexual acts in front of Lylac while she was falling asleep in her crib
**The concubine who’s parents sold her into prostitution to pay off their debts as well as the one child policy on the mainland.
*Academy of Adventure: Furinkan keeps alligators in the basement.
**A monkey is the school librarian
*Accidental Misnaming: When Lila showed up on Lao ship to rescue Joan Martha called her Polaris
:: Lila: That's Polaria to you, Polaris was already taken...and...hey! It's...you?
*Accidental Murder: Lazar accidentally killed a Roman soldier who was trying to rape Miriam.
*Accidental Pervert: During their match after countering Nabiki’s downward Axe kick tripping her up Ranma accidently caught her right on her frontal padding
*Accidental Pornomancer: Due to a combination of his natural charisma and being a Nice Guy Ranma has a way with women that is transcendentally physical. He has received all of his elemental allies simply by virtue of treating them like human beings. This aspect has only gotten worse after he developed the Kamasenken causing his martial arts prowess to also extend to a mastery of the bedroom.
**Needless to say Nabiki hates this aspect of Ranma especially since he’s still a Clueless Chick Magnet. Its reached the point that upon noticing the signs she immediately stops him from talking to a woman.
**The irony is that he started out as a Dogged Nice Guy
*Acrofatic: Typhoon is Seventeen thousand, three hundred-fifty-two-point eight tons but thanks to its symbiotic relationship with Ukyo it is able to utilize some very impressive acrobatics both to escape Thor’s containment field as well as in its battle with Godzilla.
*Acting Unnatural: Herakles tried his best to avoid drawing attention to himself upon coming to Japan. Unfortunately his girth and the bulging muscles of his frame, which are clearly visible with the sleeveless shirt that he was wearing made that impossible.
*Activist Fundamentalist Antics: The Blazing Cross of Glory Cathedral, home to the Church of the Illuminated Glory, headed by the not-so Reverend Thomas E. Schickle. The place has no sanctity, no love of humanity. Its followers exhort hatred and wickedness in Anri’s name and disguise it with biblical passages that they freely quote out of context.
**They picketed the funeral of a deceased Gay man while waving signs that loudly proclaimed that his soul is in hell for his transgressions?
*Actually a Doombot: The Lao that Martha was talking to was an Undine
*Actually, I Am Him: Deconstructed Reverend Thomas E. Schickle hates Anri
**Anri once entered the Blazing Cross of Glory Cathedral disguised as Yesus and was thrown out for looking like a homeless bum and a filthy Arab beggar.
:: Reverend Thomas E. Schickle: Your mockery of the Faith is one thing, but soiling my temple with rags and dragging your filthy bare feet upon my carpet... 
:: Anri: You see? I try to walk the walk and speak the language and what does it get me? I'm either labeled a communist, a hippie, a madman or all three together. One time even I had to chastise some FBI agents when they tried to search me for explosives. I'm a tolerant man as things go, but if somebody wants to strip-search me there then they had better start with candy and flowers and pick out a good restaurant, or maybe a hotel later.
*Actually Not a Vampire: This is how Ryoga met Frank.
*Actually Pretty Funny: Udan’s face when he fell into Nabiki’s Temporal Trap
:: Shiva-Ranma: he also tells me that he’s willing to abide a truce for now, especially since he watched you fall into that Temporal Trap like you did. He says—-and I’m quoting here—-that he’ll remember your expression for centuries to come, and the thought of it alone warms him far more than us beating each other to a pulp could ever manage
*Actually, That's My Assistant: Frank was surprised to discover that Ranma and not Nabiki was the current Nexus.
**The Dracula from Buffy the Vampire Slayer was one of the real Vlad’s sons.
***Played with since this is a case of Hero of Another Story it is unknown weather Buffy knew that or not.
*Adaptational Heroism: During the time of the 15th century BC, a Pharaoh named Amenhotep IV suddenly took it into his head to change the entire face of the Egyptian religion, converting to Sun Worship and declaring himself Akhenaton, the first Monotheist, worshipper of a god named Aton, who was the mysterious force behind the creation of the world by Ra, the original Sun god of Egypt. In truth he was, an incompetent boob whose twenty year misrule over Egypt was of such ill favor that when he died the priests of Amon who took power went on a rampage seeking to undo all that he had accomplished. Priests and followers of Aton worship were driven into exile, and among their numbers was a curious fellow by the name of Atonmoses, or Moses for short.
**Elija the Tishibite is regarded as the greatest prophet of his era, and yet in reality was a terrorist and mass murderer who once locked a room full of men and set fire to the building in which they were trapped...all because they were adherents to a foreign god and held prominent sway in the court of the Israeli count of King Ahab.
***Otherwise known as Yohan the Babtist
*Adaptational Villainy: The Bible names the time of Moses as a time of slavery for the ancestors of the Hebrew. When actuality there was no massacre of the Innocent first-born children of the Israelis...a story borrowed in whole cloth from the legends of King Sargon of Persia. Depictions of this as a time of cruel oppression is somewhat exaggerated and ignores the annoying detail that the practice of slavery in this time wasn’t so harsh or pervasive as the more institutionalized version that existed in much later eras.
:: Thelendra: Egypt was mighty but lacked the manpower that would have been needed to oppress an entire population with whips, chains and fetters as the word 'slave' would tend to symbolize. In reality the Pharaoh was regarded as a living god to his people, an intermediary between the supernatural forces that governed the world and the ordinary people who trembled in the shadow of all things beyond their understanding. A Pharaoh was effectively a high priest and trained magician who was required to perform daily rituals that were thought necessary to keeping the entire universe in order. That is why the people paid homage to him and did all that they could to insure that he would live long and prosper in the afterlife when he walked among his ancestors and communed with Osiris. People truly believed that without the Pharaoh their lives would be governed by chaos...and in some senses they were correct, so it be hardly to remark that in the Egyptian system the Pharaoh ruled over and owned everything, including the labor of his subjects, and thus could compel them to work for him on various public projects in lieu of paying other forms of taxes.
**Lilith is both this and Adaptational Heroism
**Her and Adam’s relationship was the result of averting Opposites Attract. Lilith was never to be subservient to Adam she was just that his go with the flow attitude greatly annoyed her ambitious nature. The legend his more playing with Opposites Attract Revenge. She was never kicked out of paradise one day Lilith could stomach no more and she left Adam to go live by herself without having to pick up and clean after him or do any of the dishes. But him falling in love with the more compatible Eve fueled a rage of jealousy in Lilith, who sought to assert her rights as a dominant Alpha female over this unwanted intrusion within her garden, but she had forsaken her claims to Adam when she deserted him and her petition went unheard by the Heavenly justice.
**Abraham’s exploits have been exaggerated greatly. While he did abandon his son and second wife to the wilderness at the urging of his first wife. It wasn’t done willingly Sarai grew so jealous of Tamar, who was younger and fairer that he could no longer abide the squabbling. Though he does admit that it was a foolish way to maintain harmony.
***It wasn’t the Pharoah who coveted Sarai but merely a regional governor, and he didn’t pimp his wife out. He merely saw to it that his food went bad while he guested within his house so that he developed a case of the runs for a few days, then bribed a priest to offer him a convenient divination.
***Overall while he has made his share of foolish mistakes throughout his life Abraham is shown to be a good man.
*Adaptation Origin Connection: Judaism is connected to Classical Mythology in Jim Baders works. After Zeus’s son Lucifer attempted to overthrow his father he was cast out and sealed away. He was later found by Akhenaten who attempted to set Lucifer who he referred to as Amun as the one true god of Egypt. However this caused much suffering and heavy taxation of his people, and resulted in his reign ending prematurely when the Priests of the Old Amon religion took certain steps to reinstitute the reign of their old order. Lucifer was resealed until he was eventually found by a Semetic prince by the name of Ramoses known today as Moses.
*Addiction-Powered: Played with, the drugs a homeless drug addict used ended up burning out the psychic centers of his brain so when a demon tried to possess him it ended up being trapped.
**Played with, when he was a very young man Jeddah discovered that he could channel the emotional energies of others and harness it to become a force by which he could control the minds and will of others. While this in itself isn’t addictive the downside was that he had a need for an audience and having people look up to him and expend their energies in prayerful worship that he could absorb and expend at his leisure was like an addiction.
*Adding Insult to Injury: Nabiki pretending to be tired after defeating Natsume and Kurumi in a sparring match
*Ad Hoc: The work considers the idea of the Devil this.
*Adorably Precocious Child: Lylac's not even a year old and already she looks and acts twice her age.
**Her first word was Spreedsheet
**Breeze is this by virtue of being raised on a floating harem. While she doesn’t really act any different then any other child her age she is surrounded by a lot of adult themes that she just takes for granted and while the crew tries to keep the more seedy things from her the information cant help but bleed through.
**Played with on Arael Nabiki is the equivalent of two years old so when Anri took her there the Araelians they met were shocked by how mature she was.
*Adrenaline Makeover: Even Martha had a hard time recognizing herself after her encounter with Lao
*Adult Fear: Ryoko Akagi found out that Otono was planning on attacking the ward her daughter’s college was in.
*Advanced Ancient Humans: Most scholars believe that human civilization began around six thousand years ago, with the founding of Babylon, Egypt and Sumeria...but I know there have been cycles of civilization that have risen to great heights and have fallen by the wayside long before the end of the last ice age. The cycle that we are presently in is but the latest of many that have come and gone before us, right back to the time of our ultimate beginnings well over a million years ago, when our ancestors were kidnapped by aliens and experimented upon to produce our earliest recognizable forbearers.
**The first civilianization was when humanity turned against the Ancient’s. Unfortunately Humans Are Flawed which led to their downfall but they left many traces of themselves upon a thousand, thousand worlds throughout the cosmos.
**The stage of humanity that arose from the ashes of a great Chaos War were our genetic ancestors, the Solnoids, only they were an entirely female-dominant race who reproduced through artificial means and got into a calamitous war with a rival power known as the Paranoids, a war that in time brought down their entire civilization. One half million years ago they died off—-all but for a few residual colonies on outlying worlds—-and left in their wake a restored humanity due to a science experiment that combined Paranoid and Solnoid DNA to recreate the male half of our species.
**Less than half a million years later wcome to the time of Atlantis. A renaissance period that briefly seemed to offer the potential of restoring humanity to the empire of glory that once was. They were an advanced technological civilization that mastered the harnessing of elemental forces through the use of specialized crystals...but then they grew strange and perverse in their ideals, abusing their vast powers to begin enslaving worlds, and to that end they created a special genetically enhanced breed of warrior to form their shock-troop elite. These were beings whose physical and mental attributes were enhanced to the degree of true superhumans...a warrior race unlike any other, so perfect in every way that they eventually started to wonder about the very people whom they were working for, which lead to a period of unrest that ancient records refer to as, "The Ironstar Rebellion".
*Adventures in the Bible: Reka did this to Kasumi
*Aesop Amnesia: It took quite a while for Nabiki to learn that keeping secrets from Ranma was a bad idea as they always come out.
**Once money got involved in their challenge match Nabiki became a Arrogant Kung Fu Guy and began looking down on Ranma.
**Averted it seems that people have learned to take Cassandra’s prophesies seriously.
**Lampshaded in universe Lilith never learns from her mistakes and former lessons.
**One thing about Lilith, she never does learn from her mistakes and former lessons…
*Affectionate Nickname: Shiva-Ranma likes to call his wife Nabby. For Nabiki however it’s an Embarrassing Nickname and she hates it.
**Martha used to call Aiko her little cheery blossom
*Affably Evil: If he wasn’t a vicious mercenary working for religious fanatics’ hell bent on destroying Japan Yagyu Hanarabi would be an incredibly Nice Guy.
:: Yagyu: Look, I'm very sorry about having disrupted your evening, and I was here to kill you, I'll make no excuses about that. But things aren't exactly what they seem to be on the surface, and I have no personal qualms about either you or the vampire lady...so why don't we just call it a night and go our separate ways before one or more of us really does get hurt...I mean, permanent like?
**It’s actually an Ambiguous Situation as he could be a Well-Intentioned Extremist in the middle of The Infiltration
**Madame Lao, in her own words she wanted to have fun and still be able to sleep at nights, a feat unto itself when it came to sleeping within a haunted vessel.
**This is more Pragmatic Villainy on her part
:: Lao: I am an opportunist, I take advantage of a situation as I find it, but I do have scruples about the things I do in order to make a living. Total ruthlessness is a vice that traps you up and makes you careless...having a concern about those weaker than myself helps give me an edge that I need to keep on living as I do.
**This quote says it all
:: Lao: Now, don't be that way, I could be conducting this interview under far less pleasurable conditions, but I want you to appreciate the troubles that I have gone to on your behalf. I am doing this because of the respect and admiration that I have come to have over your accomplishments...
**Keep in mind that Lao said this to Nabiki as she was torturing her through Body Sushi
**There is a reason she is able to bring so many woman into her favor.
*Afraid of Their Own Strength: Humanity as a whole is this all human life was once rich with vast potential. Potential the ancients once harnessed to become like unto gods. Power so great that the ancients all but destroyed themselves in a great and terrible war. A war that scarred all humanity, which is why the survivors turned away and hid the power that lay within them.
:: Thelendra: Once burned thrice shy goes the saying, and the human race that is today is the diminished race that came from the ancient scars of battle, frightened to their very core of once more awakening the power that slumbers yet within us all.
**This is also why Fantastic Racism is such a big problem as mutants and the supernatural represent the ancient power instinctively causing fear and hatred for muggles.
*Agent Scully: Natsumi when first confronted by Godzilla
*Aggressive Submissive: Beiko theorized that Lao was this given the way she acts around Frank.
*A Hell of a Time: Reka has been to Heaven many times and has always come away bored beyond all belief.
:: Reka: Hell is a tourist’s amusement by analogy, and the Angels? Stuffy high-minded Devas who have little use for those who are not sufficiently evolved to suit their standards. I care nothing for the afterlife of paradise…it is not for me, and I would not wish to be there if the heavens themselves opened up their arms and granted me an engraved invitation.
:: Perfume: So you’d rather go to hell then?
:: 
Reka: Hell is a concept more than a place, a state of mind rather than a state of actual being. Many demons fashion their worlds into the form of a hellish afterlife precisely because they know that the rubes who journey there will be impressed by the effect that is so created.
*All Girls Want Bad Boys: Kodachi after Sanity Strengthening admitted that this was the reason she always spurned Ranma’s advances. He was a known commodity, and so he held little interest to her. Had he been indifferent or just a little bit enigmatic or unknown, he would have caught her attention in a very favorable manner.
*All Lesbians Want Kids: Averted Aiko was vehemently against having kids when Beiko brought it up. Unfortunately Beiko didn’t give her a choice.
**Though this is why Aiko forgave Beiko so easily for her Double Standard: Rape, Sci-Fi.
:: Aiko: Understand, what you did was tantamount to rape, Beiko, but that's all water over the dam now. I've got a new life growing inside me and I might as well accept it. I'd rather have waited a few years before going through with this...and in another few years I might even have thought of it myself, but why cry over spilled milk? Besides...this means YOU OWE ME, big time
**Martha sure did
:: Lao: Forgive my crude speech, but as I told you, I tend to be somewhat direct in my approach. So, what you are saying is that you left the woman that you still love and found a husband who could give you a child, but that did not turn out the way you expected either?
*All Men Are Perverts: It turns out that Azusa has just as many male fans as Mikado has female.
**Averted Takaharis was honestly surprised that Tatewaki came to her house just to ask Angel to train him.
*All Myths Are True: This is a basic facet of Jim’s work
*All of the Other Reindeer: This happened to Takaharis after she fell in love with Halgariel. It reached the point where she effectively became an Unperson to the masters of her world.
**Of course most of Halgariel’s tribe were having none of her
**Throughout her life Pur Fum, was constantly bullied because of her Weaksauce Weakness.
*All or Nothing: Lao proposed that she and Ranma do this in their fight unfortunately (given that they were on a wooded ship) he ended up summoning Latisha.
*All a Part of the Job: Many Slayers in the past whose names had found their way into the record books had lived short and violent lives with an unhappy ending waiting at the climax. Very few of them had known real joy from their adventures, and almost none of them had lived to a very ripe old age. At best a few managed to have children, but the average career was less than two years...for the ones who survived the first few weeks of their initiation. A Slayer was little more than a personal hit-woman whom the Watchers exploited to fight their battles. The Powers that Be who empowered the Slayer were ruthless in exploiting her, and when her time was done she was just as casually discarded as a used up old rag.
*All-Powerful Bystander: In the whole entire history of the Daokan Ulsa has always been the one who stayed remote and aloof from world affairs, leaving the active parts to the discretion of her brothers.
**Which made her personally attacking Nerv central all the more befalling
:: Nabiki: So...what makes you show your hand now, my lady? I wonder...could there be something at NERV worth taking such a risk, even granted that you are the one whom they should be fearing like no other force between Hell and the Heavens...? 
**Played with the Daokan
:: Ranma: So why come to us if you guys are so powerful? We're just novices next to you, but you guys...
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Reka: Have you learned nothing from all of this, Son-in-law? Powerful we are, yes...and knowledgeable in ways that you seem incapable of fathoming, but still our very power limits us, conditions us to act only in ways that do not upset the balance of nature. Just because we could—-for example—-change the very orbit of the world and freeze the earth in its spinning rotation, thus making a day last for as long as we wished it...does not meant that we should do so. For one thing the enormous expenditure of power required to hold everything in place so that the planet does not tear itself apart or have everything on the surface fly off into space—-to say nothing of preventing the atmosphere from boiling away... 
*All Take and No Give: This was a major problem at the start of the fic with the girls and Ranma and Ryoga.
**This statement says it all
:: Ranma: I promised my mother I'd wait until I was married and out of High School so I could support you all like a husband should. You think you guys have it bad? You both have somebody to share your beds...I sleep alone in my room—not counting Ryoga, and he snores—while you've got an entire restaurant. 
**This was pretty much Ranma and Nabiki’s relationship before he Took a Level in Badass.
:: Genma: I've been watching you and Kuonji leaning on him for support, and neither one of you is spending enough time looking after the Boy's needs. All I see and hear are people cutting my son down and making him feel small and useless all of the time, and there's a limit to what any man should have to take before his confidence in his own skills begins to falter. 
*All There in the Manual: The Shang Kwan arc was done in A Tale of Two Wallets.
**Jim’s webcomic goes into detail about Astarte and her Furies
*All Women Are Doms, All Men Are Subs: This is Akane and Ryoga’s relationship.
**Played with in Kodachi and Keiko’s relationship as the more feminine Kodachi is the dom to the tomboyish Keiko.
**Averted with Lao who admitted that she is an Aggressive Submissive
*All Women Are Lustful: The woman were really starting to get annoyed by the chaste nature of their men.
**As Ranma found out soon after getting married.
*All Women Are Prudes: When the Scroll of Love by the Taoist Sage Wang Ho ended up in the hands of the renegade son of the Emperor Prince Pol Long of Imperial Court the Amazon Elder’s chose nine valiant Amazon warriors all of which succumbed to his mastery, all save a warrior named Frigid, who held out long enough to apply Amazon Glomp of Nookie of Death technique.
*All Your Powers Combined: The Presence
*Alternate Self: Trudy Well has Maegan of Mandari
*Always a Bigger Fish: Upon learning that the Triads were running the underground fighting ring Genma claimed they were this.
:: Genma: I think something in that analogy worries me, Niece, you do know that these people are connected to the Triads, and that bunch makes the Yakuza back home look like a bunch of social activists.
*Always Chaotic Evil: Averted the author likes to have Vampires be people. They are not automatically evil, but having their abilities sometimes gives them a sense of liberation from the normal moral constraints that ordinary mortals tend to be under. Especially since you have this thirst for blood thing that makes you less inclined to refuse an urge to bite down on the neck of a maiden...
*Always Second Best: Ranma began to feel unworthy of Nabiki because of this as he improves, so does she, and while he may narrow the margin of the gap it still remains a certainty that Nabiki will always be in some ways his superior. It’s for this reason that Cologne offered to train him.
:: Ranma: I don't mind the fact that she's good, but I do wish I was better... 
**Reka has faced Udan often in battle and has never bested him. They are neither friends nor bitter enemies, but they have very different ways of viewing the cosmos, and at times when they have clashed Reka has never yet gotten the better of the issue.
*Always Someone Better: According to Ryuken due to his young age he is currently in danger from either one of his brothers, but one day he will surpass them both in skill and knowledge.
**While Nabiki is Awesomeness by Analysis Beatrice can do full on Sherlock Scan. In Nabiki’s own words she is a stumbling amateur making a pretense at playing Holmes to her Watson.
**Udan to Shiva-Ranma
**The power wielded by Adam, Eve and Lilith was truly awesome even to the Daokan conception
***Even Ulsa is no match for Lilith.
**When Lao rescued Nabiki from the sinking cruise ship after dissolving her restraints she warned her against attacking her reminding Nabiki that she trained under Cologne as well and had ten years more practice in the Shadowskills.
*Always a Bigger Fish: Averted Udan’s response to Shiva-Ranma’s comment that he’s faced worse then he could put out was just to smile and say no he didn’t.
*Amazon Chaser: Jack The Ripper mistook his last victim for another prostitute she turned out to be a virgin and when he hesitated she nailed him with her handbag, beat him to within an inch of his life then kicked him into the Themes. He ended up marrying her.
*Amazon Brigade: Femforce
**The woman Guile recruited to fight in the woman league of Amakuze’s tournament.
*Ambiguous Situation: Yagyu Hanarabi is either an Affably Evil religious fanatic or he’s a Reverse Mole.
**Lenore letting him go after drinking his blood leads to the later
**He could just be the Token Good Teammate
*Ambiguous Gender: It hasn’t been revealed what Heiko Managi’s gender is as they are referred to as he-she
**It turns out that Jusenkyo skips a generation.
*Ambition Is Evil: Musk was originally an Amazon male who wanted equal rights for the men in the tribe. When his reforms were rejected and his coup ended with him and his men exiled he staged a daring raid in which he and his men attacked a neighboring village that was allied to the Amazons and took away a number of young women that he made into brides for his men. Thus began the Musk Dynasty, hated rivals to the Amazons. However his ambitions soon rose to becoming Emperor of China which is when he started implementing the practice of turning animals into woman with the spring of drowned girl.
**Julip Lao’s late husband was the advisor to Prince Garnet who wanted to conquer China. This eventually led Julep to weigh the advantages of having an Amazon of Lao’s caliber in his thrall against the advantages that could be gained in using her as a pawn in his personal ambitions. He came to view the Amazons as a key stepping stone to the Musk advance into the limelight.
**Not evil per say but it isn’t for everyone which is why the ancient knowledge to unlock the hidden potential within humanity is carefully guarded and obscured by occult symbolism in order to disguise the essence of the power.
*Americans Hate Tingle: Played with Tri-Longu flew into a rage upon turning on the tv to watch the 49er Oiler’s game only to see soccer.
*Amicable Exes: Averted though it seems to be more on Thelendra’s end then Gymp’s
**Bravelionarchiovar and Erikavionchelovar experimented in the arts of love by practicing its ways with one another, and the joys this brought to both of them, long since tamed to more tranquil passivity and friendship. Yet still the bond remains of two former lovers who still remain good friends, a love that remains like a smoldering ember that could well flare back to life one day, though for the moment neither one feels any urge to continue their relationship in that direction and have, in fact, begun exploring other outside interests.
*Amicably Divorced: Frank and Lao
**Frank and Lotion the elder as well.
*Amoral Attorney: Averted with Julien
**Discussed when he told Natsumi and Miyuki his profession
:: Julian: I'm not a vampire, Officer, I'm a lawyer.
Miyuki: You mean there's a difference?
*Amplifier Artifact: Lao powers on land are considerably less than they are while she is on this ship. Since she is able to tap into the lei-lines and manna concentrations of the Kraken to make herself a much stronger fighter.
**Kishin technology were organic technology capable of generating a vast supply of power to any device that had it as its core.
*Anachronism Stew: Nabiki was surprised that The Piece of Junk has Torpedo tubes
*Analogy Backfire: As a werewolf Chloe uses the word bi**h as an description not as an insult an has to be repeatedly reminded that woman don’t like to be called that.
**While Keiko was given Nabiki a What the Hell, Hero? for treating her like she was Lao’s Heel–Face Mole Ranma mention Keiko’s hero worship of Lao pointing out that she acts like Lao can Walk on Water.
:: Keiko: She CAN walk on water, you twit,
*Anarchy Is Chaos: Deconstructed by Reka who stated that while Humans Are Flawed they are fundamentally good.
:: Ukyo: Are you saying everybody should just do whatever they want, Sugar? The world would implode into barbarism if everyone did that!
:: 
Reka: Ah, by that you mean that they would commit crimes and violate the rules of civilized society were it not for the restraint of their impulses?” “You are forgetting that all societies and civilizations establish the same basic rules for governing themselves and restraining aberrant behavior. All cultures ban the unprovoked killing of another and make it a crime to steal the property and possessions of a fellow citizen. All societies have declared rape to be a crime against the state because women are viewed by some as property and by others as a social asset. They all make adultery into a sin because it disrupts the fabric of a social family unit. They all assert the essentially divine nature of their cult beliefs and shared taboos, and the vast majority of them impose stiff penalties for infractions against that which is viewed to be the public good. In example after example I have witnessed this in the course of many thousands of years and I can assert with great authority that one part of being human means embracing the limitations that are imposed on one through the social contract of Citizens and statehood.
*An Arm and a Leg: Captain Johan Helgar has one good eye and leg to his credit as well as a hook from a fight with Madame Lao two years ago.
*An Axe to Grind: Tri-Longu d’Falnu’s brother Mauro wields a giant axe
*Ancestral Weapon: Sano wields Himura Kenshin’s Sakaba blade
**BFS Ravensclaw Avenger is a monstrous thing over three meters long and a meter in width.
*Ancient Astronauts: Japanese Language is unique among the various languages of Asia. There is no other quite like it, not even Korean, and they come the closest at having 20% of the same language in common. The reason is because Japan was briefly colonized in the year 406 BC by the Juraians, which is why the Emperor claims Juraian blood through his own sacred ancestor, the first Emperor Jimmu.
**Unfortunately the colony didn't last, Japan was left to get by on its own, but the imprint of Juraian culture is felt down to our own time, which makes the Japanese unique from other members of the human race, including their American counterparts.
*Ancient Evil: The demon known as Genocide origins trace back beyond recorded memory, though it has borne many names over the years and has left its mark on virtually every continent with a trail of blood and flame that stains the history books with the crimes attributed to its evil wake.
*And I Must Scream: The Piece of Junk is run using Animate Dead Han Bolo initially used convicts which has since been replaced by former captains and crewmen. Blossom always believed it was a mindless state their souls were trapped in, if souls they had. Only to be informed by Lotus that, that was not the case. This caused her to contemplate what it might be like if she or Lotus should ever wind up chained among their number.
**Corl the Soul Warrior, the Champion Eternal of fate is the only one who can wield the Seven Swords. However over time the swords fragmented like rays of light through a prism. So instead of merely seven of them there came to be forty nine different versions, each one a projection of a different aspect, and wielded seven times a piece by a different champion, who was themselves the same identical being repeating over and over the wars for the balance for all eternity, sometimes even appearing more than once in the same lifetime. Seven times seven times seven equals three hundred-forty-three, which is an awful lot of times for one being to be reincarnated. Which is why the Champion eventually went insane, as reflected by the multiple personalities he must wear, each one different for each incarnation, and no two exactly alike for all that there are similarities in aspect.
**Lilith never truly died when Adam pierced her with the Lance of Longinus, but rather lived on in a dormant condition where she was neither fully alive nor utterly deceased. For two million years she endured the cold, watching the human race rise and fall over and over through cycle after cycle of brief civilization eclipsed by long periods of night where the race fell back into darkness.
**Jeddah survived for 90 years sealed in a demon realm.
*And That's Terrible: When they first met Ranma and Akane were shocked that Nabiki usually fights for money.
*And Then What? : Beiko asked this of Nabiki about her plans for Typhoon.
:: Beiko: Which may help sedate the creature, and your device may entrap it, but what then do you intend to do with so large and potentially fecund a beast, granted that it is also potentially dangerous, but not actively malevolent...
**After Ranma defeated and had Perfume at his mercy she him this calming him down as no matter how angry he was at her Ranma could not bring himself to even want to seriously hurt her.
**Vlad called his nephew out on the fact that his plans pretty much had no end game other than granting him power with no though to the consequence of his actions
**Nabiki challenging Lao in her lair Ukyo tried to get her to realize that it was a bad idea.
*And Show It to You: Zathartra eviscerated Martha. She slit her belly open and held her intestines up before her very eyes, and played with her internal organs, then put them back inside and stitched her back together. She did this repeatedly until Martha begged for death.
*Angel/Devil Shipping: Takaharis once fell in love with a Modron. To say that it caused something of a scandal is to indulge in a grotesque understatement, and it reflected very badly upon her father, who had allowed the affair to progress to such a level. In very short order he lost his title, position and property and became officially persona non grata in all the official ledgers listing a 'who's who' in Malabolge.
*Angel Unaware: Anri, Reka, and Udan were the three travelers Abraham entertained.
*Anger Born of Worry: Ryoga tried to attack Ranma through his bars while held captive in Lao’s ship as he didn’t know if Akane was alive or not.
*Angst Nuke: Happosai due to his usual antics caused Ling-Ko to perform one of these.
*Animal Motifs: Not only has Perfume been described as fighting like a tiger she also is cursed to turn into a cat.
**Madam Lao even more so as her cursed form really is a tiger which was given to her by her late husband Julep a member of the Musk Tiger clan.
**Humming bird for Kurumi due to her Hyperactive Metabolism
**Chu Wan Phat has all the warmth and charm of a Mako shark.
*Animal Wrongs Group: Artemis the Big Bad of the Typhoon arc turns out to be this
:: Artemis: It's only right that an Olympian brings back a creature from the edge of extinction that my own father nearly wiped out of existence. You mortals have been keeping that egg for study for far too long. It's a living, breathing, sentient creature and it has a right to live, just like anything else in creation!
*Animated Tattoo: Ranma’s elemental seals act as this.
*An Ice Person: Nila Caulder
*Annoying Younger Sibling: Taken to absurd degree after the discovery that Kodachi has been secretly drugging her brother for years.
*Antagonist Abilities: Charon has knowledge of thousands of methods intended to incapacitate or kill his enemies which was no help to him when trying to defeat his daughter.
*Antagonistic Offspring: Chuisitsu is Charon’s daughter this revelation made it hard for him to attack her.
*Anticlimax: Lampshaded by Martha when Ranma was defeated by Lao because he failed to withstand the All or Nothing Yin-Yang Clash between Latisha and Ulqualsh.
*Anticlimax Boss: Despite being the Bigger Bad Chu Wan Phat proved to be this as he was introduced and killed in 1/3rd of a chapter.
*The Antichrist: Amakusa Shiro came very close to becoming this.
**The Anti-Christ is a conceptual inversion of the Christ mythos given substance. Just as the Christ is supposed to embody the Mithra concept of Tifereth, the Sun, so does the Anti-Christ embody a dark lunar inversion of the Resurrection mythos. Both images are inherently false reflections of the Solar Child phenomenon that is supposed to be embodied by the real Maitreya, Lord Anri.
*Anti-Hero: Nila Caulder after she got free from her ropes decided to leave Lao’s other captives tied up as she figured they would slow her down.
*Anti-Magic: Frank is like an electric eel; he stores up static electrical charges in the cells of his body and can release them at will. Meaning that his blood is like battery acid to vampires.
**Reiko and Excel due to being immortal are able to resist Lilith’s magic.
*Apocalypse Cult: Jeddah feels that he’s Jesus resurrected to bring about the destruction of the world through Armageddon.
*Apocalypse How: This is what happens when 2 immortals ignore the rules and fight on holy ground the last time it happened was in a place known as Pompeii.
**Udan and Ranma found a Class X-4 one to fight in.
***#092376541A the Dr Strangelove dimension it got wiped out in the early sixties and has been dead for close to forty years now, not even bacteria grows there.
*Apology Gift: Kodachi gave Ranma a kiss in apology for her years of mistreating him. She then kissed Nabiki in apology for that.
*Applied Phlebotinum: Besides vinegar the ingredients of Yesus’ sleep potion is never mentioned.
**Gel
*Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite staring at Gojira right in front of her Natsumi refused to believe that there was a government conspiracy to keep him secret.
**Martha’s fundamentalist beliefs despite knowing that the ancient Gods of Greece are real
***She also tends to be suspicious of anything supernatural that doesn't have a cross hanging from it.
**Ranma not believing Ryoga’s story about how he ended up in Europe and met Frank
:: Nabiki: Let's see, we've got a pair of monsters over there who each deserve their own area codes, a group of people calling themselves gods, and the big fellow over here who claims some kind of a relationship to that other guy in the 19th century novel...
:: 
Nabiki: So...what's that about Ryoga's story being hard to credit, Ranma-kun? Sounds to me like a typical Hibiki adventure.
**He also doesn’t believe Ryoga about his accounts of The Doctor
**Averted when Frank met Trudy as her rhetoric was pretty typical of your average Pragmatic Hero and his skepticism was just to make sure she wasn’t crazy and could do the job he needed her to.
**Astarte called Illyra out on this when she expressed skepticism upon finding out about Atlantis.
:: Astarte: I know you retain some native skepticism, my love, but by now you should know better than to doubt that there is always truth behind the seemingly fantastic elements of myth and legend that we frequently encounter in this business. Suffice it to say that Atlantis was real, and that the Daokan are the living embodiment of the power that once was known to the Ancients.
**Martha naively believed that Zathartra was a fake pretending to be a Demon
*Arch-Enemy: Diervak Manhanon is Trudy’s
*Aren't You Going to Ravish Me? : Lao invoked this by leaving Nabiki tied up in a very erotic position for two hours to the point where she was begging for release.
**With all the rumors about how a real rake of a hunkster Dracula is BB Hood was angry that he didn’t try to bite her.
*Argumentum Ad Nauseam: Many of the women that Lao captures gives her the same argument about what she’s doing causing her to instantly have a counter argument when Nabiki does it.
:: Nabiki: This is your idea of respect? Sexual exploitation isn't respect, Lao, it's a kind of mental and physical degradation...
:: 
Lao: Yes, yes, I know, I know all the current Pop Psychological terms currently in vogue. I may not have spent as much time in the Outside world as you, but I do a lot of reading, and I am quite well educated, in spite of my early upbringing as a warrior. There is quite a lot of free time on long sea voyages for doing little else but study the things that the outside world has to offer, and I have had many long discussions with other 'guests' that have come before you, so believe me when I say that I have heard it all before, and then some. I hope you do not intend on boring me with a rehash of arguments that I have heard ad nauseum until I could recite them in my sleep. It would be so refreshing if someone had an original idea that they could use to imply that there is something morally wrong with how I conduct my affairs. You can't imagine what it's like being at the top of my profession yet always having to justify yourself for turning a dishonest profit while helping others to achieve their liberation.
*Armor Is Useless: Nothing is proof against the power
*Armor-Piercing Question: Ukyo asking her father if he wished he was born a boy
**Ranma asking Shampoo why she didn’t use any of her special techniques on him during their fight.
**Will you accept Shampoo for your wife?
**Nabiki asking Ranma if he would agree to the Tenchi Solution
**How does an Amazon become a professional Slaver?
**Nabiki asking Lao if selling Keiko to Chu Wan Phat was good for business
**When Miyu told Kasumi that as a vampire she would most likely have to leave her friends and family due to Van Helsing Hate Crimes Kasumi turned it around on her by asking is that how she lived her life.
**When Miyuki agreed not to report the Goya incident Natsumi called her out only for Miyuki to ask her if she wanted to explain everything that happened to the chief.
**Morgan gave Dimitri one just before Jeddha completed his spell.
:: Morgan: If the plan succeeds and you gain the powers of a god, powers enough to crush your enemies and claim dominion over the worlds of Makai and earth...then what next for the remainder of your existence?
:: 
Dimitri: What...next?
:: 
Morgan: What does my lord do when he no longer has enemies to oppose him? When there are no more enemies worthy enough to battle against you? When every battle is a foregone conclusion and you win without effort? When there is no more challenge, no more horizons to work towards, no more territory to conquer, no more lands to be vanquished...what then? Won't life become just a wee bit too predictable when there are no more battles and every day is the same as another, ruling over two worlds as a God who is absolute and unquestioned?
:: Dimitri: You know...I had never really looked at it in...quite that perspective...
*Armor-Piercing Slap: Kodachi gave one to Keiko for trying to defend Nabiki after she found out that she and Kaneda was the same person.
**Reverend Thomas E. Schickle did this to Anri upon reaching his Rage Breaking Point though it hurt him a lot more then it did Anri.
*Armoured Closet Gay: Barnabas and Paulus were lovers. However Paul would later repent of his actions and label them a sin, then go on to make infamous invectives condemning the practice after breaking up with his lover and choosing to go it alone in his travels.
**Martha at least until Lao broke through it.
:: Lao: The body never lies...the eyes never lie either, and I knew that your protests were only paper thin. All it takes is the hands of another woman who knows how to stimulate you to new levels of experience the likes of which you can only just imagine.
**More like armored closet bisexual
*Arms Dealer: Verner Kephold
*Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Anri pointing out all the things Reverend Thomas E. Schickle was doing that went against the teaching of the bible included wearing shoes in the temple and not wearing a head covering as is required by Biblical tradition, and wearing double-knit of silk and cotton suit.
*Arson Murder And Life Saving: Inverted while discussing all of the ways that Nabiki was an Ungrateful Bitch Happosai mentioned how he helped her during the "Cat-Tongue" incident, gave her the idea for the five-way engagement, gave her the benefit of some of his most advanced techniques and martial arts training, and been the victim of the dreaded "Hiryu Shoten Ha" technique?
*Artificial Intelligence: Shelly the AI of Frank’s motorcycle.
*Artificial Zombie: The Zuvembe are Cyborg’s, technically dead yet kept alive through artificial means, and quite immune to magical influence since they're largely electronic, governed by computer chips and machines of an extremely advanced nature. They obey only their pre-programmed instructions, and they're quite invulnerable to ordinary means of termination.
*Artificial Limbs: The hook that replaced Johan Helgar’s hand is a legacy of Lao
*Artistic License: Mary Shelley was a little liberal in her account of Franks life
*Artistic License – Biology: Shouldn’t Nabiki’s hymen have been broken after years of training?
*Artistic License – History: In universe there is a Take That! to Charles Moulton’s depiction of the Amazons.
:: Hercules: The Amazons weren't perfect. They were women trying to make the best of a bad situation, but nobody created them out of clay, they all had fathers and mothers, just like everybody else on this planet. Some revisionist named Charles Moulton with a Ph.D. in Psychiatry and a weird penchant for bondage stories decided to cook up some idealized version of these events to portray heroic and virtuous women standing firm against us rampaging brutish men, but that just ain't the way it happened. Life is never that black and white, not even in the Comics.
**In universe according to Happosai that the Amazons picked up bits and pieces of martial knowledge here and there from all over Asia then tried to pretend that they had invented those systems in the first place.
*Artistic License – Martial Arts: Discussed in universe with happosai stating that with his size and age it’s impossible for the happo throw to work by turning one’s own inertia against them. Whenever someone like him or Cologne performs a feat that seems to defy all reason, they're just moving energy around.
*Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: This happens to David if he fights to long
*Asian Speekee Engrish: Natsumi resorted to this when she mistook Udan not providing identification when she and Miyuki asked for it as him not understanding Japanese.
*Ask a Stupid Question... : Ukyo asking shampoo if the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken training really was that Simple, yet Awesome. Shampoo replied where she thought they got the name from.
**When Kasumi asked Talbain what a Darkstalker was.
:: Talbain: You're kidding, right? You really don't know what a Darkstalker is then?
:: Kasumi: Would I ask if I knew?
**Guile’s question about what would happen if they turned off the dragon orb
**Averted after finding out that Godzilla had escaped Frank reflexively asked was anyone hurt before chiding himself over the stupidity of the question,
:: Frank: Scratch that...how many people and how badly?
**When Genma brought the building down to prevent Ryu from seeing the Umisenken. After making it out Ryu asked him one of these.
:: Ryu: If you ask me that was a little excessive. If all you wanted to do was deny me the Umisenken you could have simply said no.
:: 
Genma: Would you have listened to me if I had, Boy?
:: Ryu: No, but it would have been a lot less trouble.
**Satan realized that asking Nabiki if he would lie was this. So changed it to What's in It for Me? 
*Asshole Victim: Julep
**Nabiki seemed to think so when she heard that Lao was kidnapped
*Assimilation Backfire: Not only did Dimitri take the Kamasenken from Ranma but he also took his adolescent mind set causing him to quickly lose self control.
*Asskicking Equals Authority: Nabiki and Keiko were able to walk right past Chu Wan Phat and his goons.
:: Nabiki: I don't think so, in point of fact you're going to let us leave intact, and do be sure to inform your minions that you have had a change of heart and will present my prize money in the full amount...or my friend here will have a new practice dummy. Isn't that right, Kei-chan?
**Happosai
:: Genma: You think you're all so smart that you can ignore the experience and insight of Happosai? Believe me...no one knows how evil and perverted the Master is like I do, but this is necessary if you are to achieve the best results.
**This was the reason Godai Kuno has hired to be principle of Furinkan High. He was a premier martial artist in his own right, one capable of holding his own with the best and brightest that Furinkan had to offer.
:: Frank: Are you telling me that...haircut-obsessed, scissors-wielding maniac with the palm tree growing out of his head was kept on the payroll because he could keep the students in line?
**Frank was offered the job after Godai’s death.
*Attack! Attack! Attack! : The Yamasenken system is the Earth, and it's a powerful technique that can overwhelm the normal defenses of almost any opponent...but it remains purely an attack style with very few defensive moves.
*Attack on One Is an Attack on All: Ranma and the others were run out of the circus because his training in the Umisenken made them think he was behind Happosai’s panty raids.
:: Strongman: Us Circus folk don't take too kindly to guys who bother our women... 
**It didn’t help that Genma’s relationship with Sakaura made them think he was taking advantage of her.
*Attractive Bent-Gender: Shun Kisaragi to the point where Lao’s crewmen kidnapped him.
**Nabiki
***When there curses were swapped Perfume proved to be one as well.
**Thor becomes one when Urb accidentally transfers Hercules old curse to him in an effort to cure him of his.
*Author Avatar: Chakar Shadowmane is Jim Bader’s alter-ego. He is a more-or-less parallel to Corwin from The Chronicles of Amber in the initial concept used, combined with Zalazny's other major hero, Shadow Jack, just given a bit of a twist by Jim’s own interpretation of the baseline concept.
**Chakar Shadowmane is the father of Alexander the Great.
*Author Filibuster: Anri’s argument with Reverend Schickle can be considered this.
*Authority Equals Asskicking: Chu Wan Phat is a ruthless Triad boss who regularly enslaves fighters who could snap him in to like a twig.
*Away in a Manger: Anri considers this an Embarrassing Old Photo, but also points out that it didn’t happen the way usually depicted.
**Misplaced Wildlife: The animals depicted weren't quite in season. The donkey and the sheep were out on migration, so all he had to converse with were camels, who did not smell pleasant in the close confines of a tiny little manger.
**Star of Bethlehem: Instead of a star moving in the sky until it came to rest directly over his birth place. There was a constellation alignment in the heavens that those Zorastrian mystics recognized as heralding the rebirth of their Mithra.
**The Three Wise Men: It took them a couple of years to locate the desert community on the fringe of Caesarea where his parents had moved by that time, so tales about them appearing miraculously on the day of Yesus’ birth were somewhat exaggerated.
**Significant Birth Date: His birthday was in the spring time, not the winter, and it wasn't during the time of the Roman census, which didn't apply anyway to Jewish residents, only Citizens of the empire.
**Nobody's That Dumb: He also points out how ridiculous it is that people believe that Herod the Great ordered the death of all the first born in the region. The Romans were certainly of the size of the uprising that would have produced which is why they would never have allowed it. Herod in his declining years had become a somewhat unpopular ruler, going mad and killing one of his own sons for example, but in this case he was totally blameless, innocent of the crime to which his name has been attached rather than the very real crimes he did produce.
*Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: To anyone watching Sarai and Abraham they would seem like they were seconds away from divorce but he wouldn’t trade her for the world.
*Awesome, but Impractical: Pit fighting death matches; war master class fighters aren't all that common. So making them kill each other would raise far less money then staging other fights and rematches?
**However patrons pay the extra amount to see blood and death.
**Lampshaded when Ukyo was training against the raging seas to become a better cook and martial artist. Sure it’s pointless but that’s what they do in every Samurai Movie.
**While incredibly powerful every day of Kenshiro’s life is spent training all he does is practice nothing else.
:: Kenshiro: Mind you, I don't mind being this good, but it's cost me in a lot of ways I'll probably never be able to completely comprehend, and those few times I'm not in training I fight against some enemy who always seems to be out to destroy me for some reason or another. There's not much time for a social life with all my travels.
**Keiko eventually considers Ranma’s status as a Clueless Chick Magnet as this as while he does attract very beautiful and powerful woman this also incurs the wrath of his jealous wives.
:: Keiko: You know, the more I think on it, the less I think I envy that guy, as much fun as it might be with Nab-chan and the other girls in the sack...
:: 
Kodachi: Indeed, the downside of group relationships is when they all team up against you...something we do not generally have to worry about with our set.
**Ranma isn’t as skilled in manipulating Sobriel’s energies meaning that not only is it taxing but it requires a great deal of concentration
***Also still the use of her powers meant that there was much less air to breathe and thus he had to fight hard so as not to suffocate or suffer a nosebleed.
**The one big problem with complicated attacks and advanced Ki-based skills is that they often needed a lot of time to build up and to charge to an appropriate level.
**The creation of a false personality, with memories that supplant the actual person, is an incredibly complex operation. A total submergence of the will into a false ideal state takes time and patience to craft and often leave deep emotional scars that can be detected easily on cross-examination. This is why Lao doesn’t use it. Such distasteful methods scar a woman and destroy her individual personality traits those elements that make her a unique and distinctive individual.
**As powerful as the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu is, the system's critical flaw is that it takes its toll upon the human body.
**The Kishin tech take a considerably large amount of electrical current to jump-start them from the state of relative dormancy that they lapse into when not actively pressed into service.
*Awesomeness by Analysis: Tsubasa realized that Ukyo was a girl due to the fact that she always avoids using the stand up stalls in the bathroom, only using a booth, and she never shows herself in front of the guys.
**Actually its more Spotting the Thread as a Master of Disguise he realized she was a girl the first time he saw her and kept tabs on her on the sly ever since.
**This seems to be a genetic trait of the Saotome family and it was one of the first clues that Ryoga was Genma’s son as he was able to learn Rhythmic Gymnastics by watching an Olympic team go through a full routine once.
:: Nabiki: That's it? He picked it up just by watching?
:: Ranma: What's so surprising about that? I do it all the time. You might have noticed I've even learned a few of your techniques by seeing you fight.
:: 
Nabiki: I've been wondering about that, Ranma-kun...have you ever thought about this...talent you have for learning by observation?
:: Ranma: I guess it is pretty unusual, but Ryoga seems to have the same ability, so it can't be that uncommon.
**Kenshiro instantly guessed Ranma and Ryoga’s skill level after watching them fight for a few seconds
***Ranma ended up returning the favor with the Tenryo Kokyu Ho
**The Ronin was able to tell that Natsumi and Miyuki were undercover cops.
**Akiko is able to tell who has feeling for each other
**Ranma was able to learn and master shadow skill simply by watching Cologne train Nabiki.
**Before he left on his training trip Nabiki was able to determine that something was wrong with Ranma do to the way he looked at her.
**As Ranma was going through Lao’s ship using the Umisenken forcing himself not to be distracted by the thousand different ways the woman were bringing each other off with great proficiency he was mentally taking notes, cataloguing and storing away this new information so that he might eventually incorporate these techniques to his own budding lore as a Sexual Master of the Kamasenken.
**No matter the universe Ranma is this
:: Reka: You have an amazing ability to absorb and adapt to new experiences and challenging situations, which you demonstrated during our battle. My niece clearly knew this about you and adjusted her training regimen accordingly, and in but a few hours time brought you in closer accord with your elemental nature.
*Awesome Ego: Jagi’s biggest weakness is his ego.
*Ax-Crazy: Given the fact he’s Jagi would you expect anything else
**Artemis
**Wedesday Adams the Third told Ekko to kill Lylac and Fragrance because they were holding her back.
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