A Tale of Two Wallets/Tropes

==A==
·         Above the Influence: zig zagged once Akane realized that Ukyo was under the effects of a love spell she put a halt to their action. However that didn't stop her from succumbing to Minako's charms.
·         Abuse Mistake: This was cannon Nabiki’s initial idea upon waking up with Ranma and Shampoo.
·         Abusive Parents: Lotion the Younger’s mother who beat her severely for not being a warrior. She was eventually sent to live with her aunt.
o    Naomi’s stepparents would lock her in the closet until she agreed to behave and listen.
·         Accidental Misnaming: After hearing about the Kalinar Akane mistook it for something out of Star Trek Ryoga automatically corrected her that it was Kalimar
·         Accidental Pervert: Averted when Ukyo caught Mokoto and Ambergris in a Not What It Looks Like moment. Angered Ukyo grabbed Amber by her bikini top demanding to know what was going on only to accidentally rip it off. Everyone treated it for what it was and merely wanted to know what was going on.
·         Achievements in Ignorance: Trying to get rid of the love pill induced Mousse Frost sent on a series of suicide mission in an effort to get rid of him only for him to succeed.
·         Actor Allusion: Kasumi is a template of Belldandy meaning that not only does Kasumi look remarkably similar to Belldandy but by the tone of their voices it is near impossible to tell the one from the other. it should be noticed that in the original series the characters are from Belldandy and Kasumi have the same voice actor
·         Actually Pretty Funny: Lotion found Nabiki’s plan of deceiving and trying to take her husband away while saddling her with another boy that she understand to be the village idiot this.
·         Adaptational Heroism: Amber and Perfume to Shampoo ½ Perfume
·         Affably Evil: This is why Yumi accepts Kento’s uncle’s presence in her nieces restaurant. Despite their reputation for ruthless criminal activities, the Yakuza are a good deal more civilized in their affairs than many rival Asian syndicates, especially the Tong, who are honorless even by the standards of the mainland. One did not grow up in Japan without hearing the good that went with the bad, nor establish a business without having even a slight brush with the local Oyabun.
·         Aliens Steal Cable: This is how Cybelle was able to escape
·         All Animals Are Dogs: Lychee’s elephant Jasmine. She has even been referred to as an overgrown puppy.
·         All Girls Want Bad Boys: Ranma’s great grandmother Nanamiya Shinko by the time he returned to Japan Happosai rather set in his ways and by then used to being misunderstood by others. However Shinko was widow who was bored and in search of diversion when Happosai came into her life and gave her all the excitement that she was craving.
·         Alleged Plane: They called it "Sie Yu airlines," which-as Ambergris wittily explained, when you get on the plane, the people on the ground would wave at you and say, "See You!". A joke that sounds funnier when contemplating it on the ground and not while the (for lack of a better synonym) plane is up off the ground and coasting along at treetop level, avoiding Chinese air defenses while aiming in a general sense towards the coastline.
·         Alternate Self: AVST Nabiki
·         Always Someone Better: Master manipulator that she is, Cybelle is all too aware that Ganglot has the market cornered on sheer devious audacity and is several levels more advanced when it comes to hatching out schemes of a perversely twisted nature.
·         Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Even Shampoo a girl known to be somewhat easy going and relaxed when it comes to outward displays of emotion and affection, will find herself bewildered and intimidated by the actions of her elders. Especially during her and Nabiki’s bachelorette party
o    Atsuko upon meeting Akane
Atsuko: You're Ryo-chan's main squeeze, so I thought I'd call you that and...
Ryoga: Mom...!
'Atsuko: Now, don't be shy like that, Ryo-chan, you can tell her how you feel about her, I'm sure Akane wouldn't mind it a bit, right Ak-chan?
·         Amazon Chaser: While at first Kirin was merely following the traditions of his people when he kidnapped Nabiki he generally became attracted to her after she had the audacity to attack him.
o    He became more interested after he found out she was related to an actual amazon
·         Ambiguous Disorder: Genma at least Hairbrush seems to think so.
Hairbrush: Your summation of his character has been borne out by the behavior I have observed in both his natural and cursed form. He is a man who avoids responsibility, who is obsessed with creating the perfect warrior, is short-sighted and myopic with a poor ability to express himself in all but the most melodramatic fashion. I am no doctor, but I do believe that there is a condition described by Psychotherapists that covers these symptoms...
·         Anachronism Stew: An in universe example the Trog’s of Pangea are a mixture of Neanderthals and a movie set crew so they fight with a combination of spears and automatic rifles.
·         An Arm and a Leg: Mon-Mon cut off Saladin’s hand to prevent him from releasing the Dead Man's Switch.
·         And I Must Scream: Anyone eaten by Nerferti is slowly digested within the goddesses intestinal walls as tendrils probe and penetrate their every opening.
o    All of the souls sacrificed to the snake goddess Neferti by Akuma was trapped on the earth plan until her death.
·         And the Adventure Continues: Most of Jim's stories, never really did get 'done', even if it can't really continue properly.
·         And Then What?: Siren spelled the stupidity of her nephew’s plan to him
Siren: Tell me...did you honestly think that you could ever win the love of Shampoo by forcing her loved ones to murder one another? Even had you used a memory-block technique her heart would never have been yours to claim. You have dragged the name of our family through the mud for the last time, and now you will reap the whirlwind that you have sown, dear Nephew.
·         Angst Nuke: Lore Masters have to keep control over their tempers to prevent this.
·         Animal Motifs: Naomi the "Shark" Nakamura
·         Anti-Advice: Ranma did this while searching for the oni possessed kasumi by asking Ryoga which way they should go, then immediately going the opposite direction.
·         Anti-Magic: When trying to find a way to escape Shang kwan Ekko, Lylac and Fragrance discussed a number of Applied Phlebotinum to act as this, such as aluminum chloride disulfate, salt, basic Sodium Chloride, Cold Iron and Orichalcum.
o    Haze an invisible mist that not only conducts electrical sparks but disrupts the formation of strong manna fields. Aggressive magic is absorbed into the air before it can affect solid matter, and even teleport or phasing spells will be unreliable under those peculiar conditions.
o    Magic involves mentally tapping into certain natural ambient forces and shaping them through the lens of the mind, powered by the will, to create an effect that can be measured both etherically and upon the plane of ordinary matter. As long as the channels are open a sufficiently powerful and talented mind can draw from a theoretically infinite source. The Mind Grenade can block or diminish the flow of energies that the mage is able to tap into, by creating a wave of interference that disrupts the pattern of his mental emanation.
·         A Pupil of Mine, Until He Turned to Evil: Red Saladin to Silas
·         Arbitrary Skepticism: Sidney Fox and initially didn’t believe that Ganglot was Ryomi’s great grandmother something she was quick to call her out on
Ganglot: I should think someone with your background would be prepared to accept the unusual and unconventional, such as the fact that I am a lot older than I look and not at all as I must seem to others.
·         Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Nabiki to the Trog’s while they were preparing her to be sacrificed. She just couldn’t understand how they could pass up such an attractive girl for food.
·         Armor-Piercing Question: In one of the many conversations that Nabiki and Ranma had in the beginning while contemplating their relationships Ranma asked her about her views on the afterlife stumping her.
Ranma: So you’re not worried about an afterlife?
Nabiki: What’s the point? If there is one, then we’ll find out about it after we’re dead. In the meantime I’m not taking any two-bit huckster’s word about the scary stuff they use to frighten us into behaving like good little socially conscious boys and girls. It’s a sucker play, and they don’t have any more answers about life than we do.
Ranma: Animals don’t think about it either, but somebody once told me the point where we really became human was where he learned to care about what happens to people who die, when we really start to miss them.
o    Upon meeting her the first thing Nodoka asked her perspective daughter in law was when she was planning on having children.
o    Mokoto’s confession of love to Ukyo was this as Ukyo has not the slightest idea how to respond.
·         Armoured Closet Gay: Akane for a long time believed that she was a perfectly normal girl, she's always tried to fit in, even when she couldn't really behave like the rest of her classmates, and for the longest time she's been afraid to admit to herself that she's...different.
·         Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Inverted Human evolved from the Star Tribe
·         Assimilation Plot: Shan Kwan’s plan in Continuum-59343921 was to kill Lylac, Fragrance and Ekko drinking their souls dry to gain their power.
·         Asskicking Equals Authority: While the government of Communist China is intolerant of dissent as they are of non-conformists but the power of the Amazons should never be underrated, and they have on occasion impressed upon the government officials the consequences that would be exacted upon them should they try and impose their rule on the Amazons directly.
o    To take over the Kuno Industries Kuno basically walked in an chucked anyone who disagreed out the window.
·         Astral Projection: One of the many abilities taught to Nabiki. She and Lotion even hold lectures in the Spirit World
·         As You Know: Lotion’s "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Genma
Lotion: Young Master, you are, of course, aware that your father is a dishonest, disreputable, self-centered lout with no more principles than intelligence and prone to making deals that he has no intentions of following through with?
Ranma: Well duh, that’s not telling me anything I don’t already know, lady.
·         Awesome, but Impractical: Even though the Hitokiri Seed gives its host a boost in speed, strength and power to almost legendary “Manslayer” potential it has a number of draw backs the first of which is that the seed burns it self out in a fairly short amount of time. While it is still enough to lay waste to any and all obstacles that lay before the host it will still only last long enough for a single battle. Secondly the host will need at least a week of recovery time to restore themselves once the effects have fully worn off.
o    Hypnotic spells work on levels of the mind where a person's normal volition will not operate defensively, that one acts as if they are in a waking dream when enchantment comes over them, and that for this reason one's behavior under such influences is never to be trusted. This is why love spells and charms are less than fully desirable means for one to obtain a lover.
o    The Mind Grenade creates localized Anti-Magic wave with an effective range of about twenty meters in radius. However it puts out a lot of power and so the batteries will only be able to sustain it for a matter of a few minutes.
·         Attractive Bent-Gender: Seeing Ukyo in her male form is described like getting hit in the chest with about a thousand volts of pure hormonal reaction, especially when you are as unprepared for it.
·         Awesome, but Impractical: Sybil the Sorceress, whose mad lust for Soun had partially been fueled by a belief that he was Astrologically destined to become the heir of some sort of cosmos-spanning destiny. Sybil was a certifiable nut-case, but definitely powerful, even if her spells did have a tendency to miscue.
·         Awesomeness by Analysis: Ranma was able to completely mimic the mannerism of an actor he met in china to get him and Nabiki into a fancy restaurant with no reservation.
Nabiki: You mean you studied his moves and copied them like any other kind of technique?
o    Shampoo to at least when it comes to manipulating ranma as she extensively studied Nabiki’s technique.
o    Hairbrush was able to figure out that Cologne ran off to her Father’s house to hide from Siren
Cologne: I never ceased to be amazed at your devious way of ferreting out information, must be those years you spent with Military Intelligence, spying for the government.
Hairbrush: I'll admit my informal training has come in handy on occasion
o    Ranma was able to figure out Kirin’s iron defenses when he realized that you can only move chopsticks in so many ways when plucking rice out of the air, especially without dropping the pickle.
==B==
·         Badass Boast: Ranma gave an epic one to Kirin.
Ranma: I'm Saotome Ranma, heir to the Saotome School of Anything Goes Martial Arts, and I ain't never been defeated, not by you, not by anybody! You can knock me down as many times as you like and I'll just get back up again, only twice as strong as before, and whatever you use to put me down I'll just learn to turn it back on you, like with your chopsticks. You don't know who you're dealing with here, you just think of yourself as if the whole world revolves around you, but I'm gonna show you what being a warrior really means, and frankly you ain't got what it takes to stand against me!
·         Badass Family: Any martial arts family mentioned
·         Bad Boss: Cybelle threatened to kill the Gambler King if he continued to lose to Nabiki
o    Surprisingly averted with Kuno who did not resort to You Have Failed Me when Mousse stole his samples of Jusenkyo water. he knew there was a possibility of it happening yet wasn’t better prepared so he blamed himself
§  Though his last secretary had an unfortunate accident when she disturbed while he was meditating.
·         Bad Liar: While it was a lie told to him his whole life Ranma had no reason not to believe that mother was dead. However when Genma tried to tell that same lie to Comb she instantly saw through it.
Genma: It happened while the boy was with me on our training mission. It was so sad, I don’t want to discuss it…
Comb: What did she die from?
Genma: Ah…
Comb: Never mind, I can see how painful it is for you. We won’t discuss it further.
·         Badly Battered Babysitter: Played with in that it is a kidnapper who goes through this and not someone hired by the heroes, but needless to say Shang Kwan.
·         Bat Deduction: This seems to be one of the many abilities provided to Lore Masters.
o    It’s a by product of being connected to the Akashic Records they already have all the clues that they need to solve the puzzle. All they have to do is make a deduction based on the available data that is at hand.
·         Batman Gambit: Before the match with the Gambler King Cybelle rigged the dojo as a giant trap to keep everyone in it so that she would either win the dojo legitimately or blow the heroes sky high.
o    Lotion invited Konatsu on the training trip because they needed someone to go full out against Ranma and given Akane’s animosity it would only be a matter of time before they were at each others throats. And who would be there to defend her honor.
·         Barrier Warrior: Cybelle’s most used defense are mystical barrier’s used to prevent physical entrance.
o    Akane became this after receiving her curse.
·         Beauty = Goodness: Averted despite Happosai finally achieving the youth and beauty that he always longed for he is still the same old Happosai in a younger body…selfish and self-absorbed to a degree that even Genma appeared altruistic.
·         Becareful What You Wish For: Love spells don't actually erase the personality of the victim, they only strengthen the attractive force between two (and sometimes more) people, feelings that they may already possess in some small measure, whether it's mere liking or casual friendship. By the same token logic, if one uses a spell to change hate into love, a lot of the anger and hostility that went into the hate would remain and taint their relationship. After all, hate is not the opposite of love fear is. So Happosai would have found that Cologne wouldn’t curl up and turn into his faithful love slave if he used the Love Pearl on her
·         Because You Can Cope: Played with as Kasumi and Nabiki did this to themselves. Kasumi is brings harmony and stability out of the anarchy of her surroundings, without her the house would have long ago succumbed to the forces that are tearing it apart. Nabiki helped her hold the center by taking upon herself the negative tasks that she can never permit to poison her own soul.
·         Becoming the Mask: Hairbrush was originally sent to the Amazon’s as token punishment imagine their surprise when he gained a place in the home of the Matriarch of the Nyanchiczu.
Hairbrush: You've known the truth about me all along, surely you know I'd never betray any of your secrets, especially not to those idiots in the Forbidden city.
Cologne: I know, and you have been a tremendous boon to me, passing on the information that I provided you so that your masters would be satisfied that all was well and that we were not worth the bother.
·         Berserk Button: Mentioning how his mother killed herself is this for Kuno
o    HAPPOSAI IS NOT COLOGNE’S BOYFRIEND.
o    Ranma has been shown to have a few himself such as hurting his loved ones or the thought of Genma cheating on his mother.
o    At first Kasumi didn’t like the though of Silk trying to renew her relationship with her father as in addition to the revelation that the two had slept with each other before Soun had married Kimiko. But Silk taking over in other ways besides the matter of domestic bliss made her feel as if she was being replaced.
o    You do not call Kachu an accident in front of Silk
·         Betty and Veronica: Ryoga and Ukyo to Akane
o    Akane and Makoto to Ukyo
·         Beware the Nice Ones: Kasumi has within her the capacity to be a very powerful Lore Master...all that she has ever lacked is the inclination to broaden her horizons beyond that of a humble domestic.
o    The normally calm and easygoing Silk might seem as smooth as her name would imply, but even Cologne does not want to be at ground zero should she actually show her temper. As Atsuko realized when she and Soun accidentally ingested love pearls.
·         Beware the Quiet Ones: Its easy to forget that Konatsu is referred to as the Perfect Ninja for a reason.
·         Beyond the Impossible: Besides Akane only one other person in Amazon legend was said to have overcome the Xi Fang Giao.
o    Happosai stealing the Sailor Senshi’s panty’s despite them being a part of their costumes when they change into their Senshi forms.
o    Ryoga managed to cross from the Southern to the Northern Hemisphere a few thousand nautical miles) without being any the wiser.
o    Ryomi flew EIGHT THOUSAND MILES OFF COURSE
·         Bi the Way: Nodoka has no problem inviting Atsuko into her bed.
·         Big Bad: Cybelle
o    Akuma Zesutoru, was this for the Pangea arc
·         Big Brother Is Watching: Cybelles uses of Magitek gives her access to virtually every part of the globe.
·         Big Damn Heroes: Genma saving everyone from Cybelle by destroying the building she was using project herself
·         Big Eater: Besides Ranma this is shown to be one of the many ways Kachu is the complete opposite of Kasumi. Kasumi normally eats very moderately and keeps a healthy balance of nutrition in her diet. Kachu—by contrast—eats like a horse and all but inhales in the calories (though she avoids meat items and prefers complex carbohydrate dishes that are full of vitamins in the vegetable category).
·         Big Good: Cybelle considers Ganglot to be her biggest threat.
·         Birthday Episode: Shampoo’s and Ukyo’s date also coincide with Ukyo’s birthday.
·         Bifauxnen: So much so that even though Mokoto is fully aware of her gender she still considers Ukyo her sempai.
o    In Akane’s case this is actually a plus.
o    She was even Ranma’s best man.
o    This trope is in play so much that not much really changed when she got her curse.
·         Blatant Lies: Soun claiming that he wasn’t fooled for a second by Nodoka’s Batman Gambit to determine if Ranma was manly or not.
Nabiki: I saw Kasumi, Akane and even Kodachi eye our father with dubious expressions. I had to repress my own urge to kick him in the shins for acting like such a Baka.
o    Instead of admitting that she fell into a trap Lotion excuse for letting Nabiki face the Trogs alone was that it was the design of fate and Nabiki’s time to shine forth and other stuff of that sort.
o    Nabiki was not looking at Kanada.
o    The reason that Cologne was hiding out at her father’s for so long was to use her wisdom to guide her Nephew through the difficult times that appeared to be ahead for a prince of the Jurai, and not because she was trying to stay out of sight from a certain blonde haired member of her tribe who had recently demonstrated a renewal of long dormant interest.
·         Blessed with Suck: Akane was born through the direct intervention of a Goddess First Class, Unlimited Potential, making her a mortal with a spark of the divine hidden within her. It is a potential that many unconsciously perceive and are drawn to, such as her horde of randy admirers who never seemed very much to mind being pummeled into a black and blue haze at her dainty little hands. However is also provides her with more raw power than the essential balance that is required to properly make use of her potential. In effect she tries too hard to achieve normalcy, but even the most charitable person much concede that she is not a 'normal' person.
o    The Jusenkyo water that triggered the initial awakening of her dormant potential. First the Yaazuniichuan, which turned her into a duck, and then the Nyaniichuan water added to this, shaping the nature of her curse so that she took on the physical aspect of an Angel. She only reverts to her Angel aspect with the application of cold water, but even in human form she carries the spark of her divinity within her. If the power remains dormant and does not further evolve, then there should be no real problem. If, however, the power is further awakened...well...Angels have often been known throughout the ages to be the heralds of calamity. There is a remote possibility that Akane could become a danger to herself and those around her.
o    The regime of pressure points manipulation Happosai subjected Hinako to endow her with the ability to drain the battle aura’s making her powerful enough to make even Cologne fear her. However this is has caused her to be stuck looking like a child.
o    The spring of drowned boy water Happosai drank gave him both a youthful body as well as the Bishonen appearance he’s always wanted. However the magic of Jusenkyo also canceled out Ganglot’s contract that bolsters his formidable fighting talents to make him the reputedly Most Evil Martial Arts Master in the world. So while still formidable as long as he is in his cursed form he is no longer invincible.
o    Perfume, is Amazon trained and in some ways even surpasses Shampoo in terms of raw fighting potential, but because of a trick of nature in her birth she was born hypersensitive to pain, which prevents her from using all of her abilities to the max, particularly where it comes to unarmed fighting. Her reliance on weapons is a definite liability, but she compensates for that by a supernormal proficiency with both Axes and Tonfas, and her speed is quite phenomenal, almost on a par with Kurumi. She is highly intelligent and perceptive, able to devise and execute complex strategies on the fly, and knowledgeable in many of Cologne's most formidable techniques, including the Bakusai Tenketsu. She is strong and quite resilient, and—-thanks to having been bestowed with the advantages of "nano-technology" care of the silver-haired Beatrice—-her nervous system has been partially repaired and reinforced so that she no longer suffers a crippling handicap every time she is struck in battle. Add to that her cuddlesome and affectionate nature and you have one very formidable young lady, especially given that she has the hypersenses of a Sentinel, giving her a superior awareness of her environment, though not quite the equal of the perceptions of a Lore Master
·         Blood Knight: Shampoo is a woman of action so wasn’t at all happy to have to crimp her martial arts abilities by holding back out of consideration of her baby.
·         Blue and Orange Morality: Oni are not so dissimilar from human on a genetic scale, though countless millennia of evolutionary drift have made them both distinctively different species. On the plane where the Oni reside there are different rules and elementary forces that set the conditions of their existence. They've adapted to survive under a climatic situation that you would truly find hellish, though to them it is Home Sweet Home.
·         Belligerent Sexual Tension: This seems to be the dynamic of Urd and Mraller’s relationship. Ganglot went so far as to say that after three thousand years it’s time to get serious.
·         Bond Villain Stupidity: Shang-Kwan is far too proud of his abilities to dispose of unwanted guests so lightly. Thus he took the Tendo Posse into captivity first with the intent of extracting information from them for later. While still focusing his energies upon the impending ceremony, to sacrifice Ekko, Lylac and Fragrance allowing them to escape and best him.
·         Break Them by Talking: Lotion did this to Cybelle during Nabiki’s match with the Gambler King distracting her from cheating for him.
·         Brilliant, but Lazy: As Nabiki discovered Ranma will only learn something if he feels challenged to know it. His competitive spirit will not allow him to back down once a challenge has been given and it is bound to make him try harder at remembering the things he already knows but had not bothered to try to remember. Which is why she utilized this approach when when tutoring him.
·         Broken Pedestal: Averted learning that Kimiko Tendo wasn’t the Yamato Nadeshiko they remembered her as did nothing to diminish her daughters view of her and just made them wish they had more time to get to know her.
o    In fact it ended up benefiting as they no longer strived to achieve this unobtainable goal of imitating her.
·         Brother–Sister Incest: The revelation that Comb and Genma used to date combined with finding out about Kachu’s parentage caused Shampoo to fear this might be the case luckily Combs confirmation proved to be All Just a Dream.
·         Brought Down to Badass: While in his cursed form Happosai loses the protection granted to him by Ganglot so while he is no longer an invincible evil he is still a three hundred year old master of martial arts
·         Brought Down to Normal: Happosai’s jusenkyo curse
·         Bullying a Dragon: This is the reason the Nekohanten is rarely locked as who would hapless enough to try and knock off THIS particular restaurant?
o    Yamashina Kenji and his gang trying to mug Shampoo
·         ...But I Play One on TV: The Chief engineer that D'amour kidnapped for his ship is not a engineer at all he just played one on TV and in a few movies as he’s tried to repeatedly explain.
·         But Not Too Foreign: Nabiki’s grandmother was the daughter of a United States pilot who served during the occupation.
o    The reason Urd and Belldandy do not appear to be native Japanese while Skuld does is that they each had different mothers but share the same father, Susanowa the Sea God, the current Kami-Sama.
o    Chiun is Comb’s father
==C==
·         Cain and Abel: Ganglot and Hild
o    Ranma and Ryoga were this at first though they weren’t aware of it at the time.
·         The Cavalry Arrives Late: By the time Shampoo and Neko-Ranma showed up Nabiki was already in the process of decimating the Trogs.
o    Minako arrived with the rest of the Sailor Scouts literally seconds after Ranma defeated Prince Kirin and everything was dealt with.
·         Cannibal Clan: The Trogs are a mixed tribe of Neanderthals and movie set people
·         Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Since the rejection of others t fuels Happosai’s perverted obsessions. The fact that Cologne loved and did not reject him met that she was the only one he did not molest in such an improper manner
Nabiki: Oh, I get it, You mean if a woman rejects him he treats her like an object…
Lotion: Whereas a woman who accepts him and shows kindness is treated like a princess
·         Captain Obvious: Genma warned Soun that he was Lured into a Trap after the trap had been sprung.
Yumi: He knows it is, fool, don't you, Soun-chan.
·         The Casanova: T'shalkri has a thing for human females.
·         Cassandra Truth: Everyone thinks Shampoo’s hair is dyed.
Shampoo: Aiyaa, for last time, Shampoo no dye hair! Is natural color!
·         Casual Danger Dialog: After Kachu burst into her studio Ganglot was more focused on her latest work of art. Of course given what Magnificent Bastard she is Ganglot had already planed for Kachu’s arrival so wasn’t really worried.
·         Chaotic Good: Though nominally "reformed" Ganglot still retains the same wicked sense of "fun" that had made her a force to reckon with in the old days when she was still allied with the forces of the Abyss.
o    Ganglot said it best when describing her artistic philosophy
Ganglot: As much as I value symmetry, there is a lot to be said for letting one's inner creative part go, and I fancy a bit of irregularity to break up the otherwise uniform pattern. After all, try to be too perfect on a day like this and you might make the gods themselves feel jealous at your hubris.
o    She once used an Alignment Scrambler to alter her aura to Lawful Good to stop Kachu from attacking her.
·         Chaste Hero: Ranma is not used to being with women and after so many years of being by himself he is incredibly repressed.
o    Ranma is not entirely sheltered about the ways of men and women, but having a father who could not even articulate the proper terminology, and very little exposure to the kind of schoolyard gossip that might have better explained the mechanics, he is left without a real imagination to depict what would happen in certain situations.
o    His reaction to catching a naked Shampoo groping Nabiki which was to run away utterly confusing her.
o    Then there is this conversation
Comb: In a lot of ways it is easier for you to state what attracts you to us. “Men have always prized a woman who combines the aspects of a child with the strength of a wild huntress. I dare say that you could probably list the things you like about Nabiki and my daughter with very little difficulty, beginning with the two items that most men seem to first notice…
Ranma: Uh…their eyes?
Comb: You have got to be kidding me. “Son-in-Law, you either have the lowest sex drive of any man that I have ever met or else you are not really that interested in women.”
o    It was so bad that there were extremely noticeable differences after Comb gave him the birds and bees speech and even more after Shampoo forced the issue.
·         Children Are Innocent: After witnessing an Elephant crash through the Tendo dojo, and a blimp kidnap Nabiki and people who changed into animals with wings, or people with wings for that matter. Naomi was on the verge of freaking out while her daughter Rachael took everything in stride.
Kento: She's asleep now. She's a really good kid, handles herself like a trooper.
Naomi: Ah...good...I thought she might have been traumatized by all that excitement earlier...
Kento: No chance of that. Kids are amazingly adaptable and you have no idea what they're capable of when it comes to managing a crisis.
o    However Reality Ensues in that despite being relieved that Rachael was fine Naomi still didn’t want her daughter exposed to that sort of think.
·         Clingy Jealous Girl: When a group of girls started hitting on Ju-Lan Ro-Mano delivered No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on them and the three men who tried to stop her.
·         Clock King: Cologne does not need to use a watch to tell the time. According to her timepieces are a confidence game of the Swiss, and a true adept never needed a watch to tell time, being closely attuned to the flow by the internal rhythms of the cosmos.
·         Cloudcuckooland: As Kachu observed the people of Japan suffer an inordinately high number of demonic visitations for a major metropolitan zone.
o    This is why Naomi was able to acquire so many spots of land so easily the weirdness factor is a living, breathing, vital part of Nerima and most land owners have an unspoken fear of impending disaster that could strike without warning and reduce thriving companies to vacant lots with next to no warning whatsoever.
·         Cloudcuckoolander: Nodoka is a quiet and quirky person who was very hard to classify, let alone anticipate
·         Clueless Chick Magnet: This seems to be a Saotome genetic trait to the point that it goes into goes into The Pornomancer territory.
Shampoo: Shampoo think maybe she no be fated to have happy marriage. Shampoo mother say thing that make Shampoo worry. She say Saotome male no be reliable mates, have too much Manhood, attract other women like bees to flowers…
Nabiki: Animal Magnetism, yeah, I guess that does pretty much sum up Ranma…but his father?
·         Color-Coded Characters: Nabiki gave the Tendo Posse specific color/animal motifs
o    Ranma is a Red Dragon, representing both courage and chaos personified, energy in motion that could sweep away all opposition.
o    Cologne is a purple dragon, most spiritual of entities with the "royal hue" that heralded the morning.
o    Ryoga is a Gold or yellow dragon, the embodiment of the Solar Principle of renewal and rebirth, and of metal, ever renewable and firm, able to reshape himself in the cast of a whole new likeness.
o    Kuno is a Blue Dragon, the Thunder of the heavens matched by intellect and the cool wind of a valiant spirit.
o    Natsume is a Green Dragon, nature personified in its rarified and unrefined condition.
o    Kurumi is an Orange or Ochre dragon, warmth and sensuality set between the poles of fire and sunlight.
o    Mousse is either a Turquoise or an Indigo dragon, on the one hand cool and clear as running water, on the other hand harboring a shadowy presence that could strike from concealment and without warning.
·         Combat Medic: While Comb is a skilled fighter and a master with a Chinese straight sword she has not been keeping up with her more aggressive styles since she renounced the Warrior’s path and took up the mantle of a healer. As both a Graduate from the University of Beijing, and a master of Amazonian healing Comb's healing ability can be seen as a form of energy manipulation that works on healing and mending of forms.
·         Combat Pragmatist: Mousse was first introduced attempting to kidnap Nabiki as he felt that she could prove useful in forcing Ranma’s hand and making him renounce his hold over Shampoo. In fact this is the primary basis of Mousse’s entire fighting style and throughout the series he takes this up to magnificent bastard levels. Such as using Jusenkyo and the Neko ken to try and force Nabiki and Ranma to kill each other, and even pulling out a gun.
·         Comically Missing the Point: Kasumi wouldn’t be Kasumi without this such as after Nabiki was kidnapped by Prince Kirin Ranma mentioned that he would pay him a one-way trip to the cleaners. Kasumi’s reply that she didn’t think Ranma could afford the dry cleaning bill for what he was wearing.
o    This was lampshaded by Akane during the Martial Arts Lawyers arc.
'Ukyo: But I'd rather we got through this without any needless hassles. The last thing we need to do is give anyone an excuse to check into the family's dirty laundry...
Akane: Yeah, Kasumi wouldn't like that. [beat] Why the heck did I just say that?
o    When Kasumi went to Kodachi after discovering Tofu in bed with her sister. The two ended up making out during which time Kasumi accidentally knocked over a table lamp and started focusing more on that and how sorry she was then the fact that Kodachi was coming on to her.
Kodachi: Would you forget about the Kami-blasted lamp!
o    After seeing how much of a Henpecked Wife Comb was Kodachi commented that it was easy to see who wore the pants in their relationship. Kasumi replied that they were both wearing pants
Kodachi: Your charm never ceases to amaze me, my darling.
Kasumi: I do my best, and I'm happy if that pleases you, Kodachi-chan.
·         The Comically Serious: Hairbrush is this making him the perfect match for the quick tempered Comb. When Comb impulsively challenged Nodoka for the right to be Genma’s wife in an effort to prevent her from forcing him and Ranma to commit Seppuku. Hairbrush commented on Comb’s habit of acting her heart, not her head as if he was talking about the weather.
o    Also when Genma gave him the evil eye for insulting him Hairbrush just returned it calmly with an implacable glare.
·         Competition Freak: Ranma will only put himself out if he feels the threat of not being the best in the craft of War Master.
·         Composite Character: Inverted as both Ambergris and Perfume are based on the Perfume depicted in Shampoo One Half as well as a few other Altered Destinies Fanfics.
·         Conditioned to Accept Horror: Nabiki should have been surprised by Genma’s idea to teach Ranma how to ice skate but she wasn’t
·         The Conqueror: Shortly after the Amazons migrated into the region, they came into conflict with many neighboring cultures and—-depending on how diplomatic relations fared—-either formed alliances or made savage war against those who fell into the bad graces of the Queens, Matriarchs and Council of Elders. Ganglots worshipers happened to be the later which is why she hated them for 3000 years.
·         Continuity Nod: There are allot of these
o    While contemplating Ukyo’s curse Nabiki wondered what how she would manage if she had turned into a boy whom other girls flocked around wanting to date.
§  Perfume is deathly afraid of Jusenkyo due to a dream she had when she was eight about falling into the Maoniichuan and emerging with the curse of the drowned cat
·         Contrived Coincidence: The utter chaos of the Love Pearl arc couldn’t have happened unless all of the different Anime character’s decided to take a break at the exact same time.
o    In addition the Lust card going on a rampage at the exact same time that Happosai discovered what the bracelet does.
o    Picolet Chardin knowing that Nabiki Akane and Kasumi were in Paris despite the trip being completely accidental.
o    Just as Magnus was wondering where he could find heroes to stop Red Saladin and thwart World War III Ryoga had accidentally steered the group to Paris on their way home.
·         Control Freak: Cologne had such great hopes for Comb, as she had for Soap before her. She wanted a daughter of her family line to carry on the tradition of being the leader of the Joketsuzoku. However, Comb decided to become a doctor, so she has been training Shampoo every day of her life to make her the finest warrior of our tribe. Unfortunately, Cologne, in spite of being very wise in other matters, has always had a problem with her interpersonal skills, so while she always acts with the best of intentions, the net results of her actions are often quite different from what she has expected.
Nabiki: Meaning that she feels free to mess around in people’s lives without consideration for their feelings?
·         Cool and Unusual Punishment: Comb forcing Cologne who thanks to Jusenkyo is now stuck in her true form to attend highschool
·         Cordon Bleugh Chef: Prior to meeting Soun Kimiko could barely even boil water without alerting the Fire Marshal.
·         Corrupt Corporate Executive: Kuno
o    Cybelle
o    The board member’s of Kuno Industries had been confident that Kuno would be easily manipulated into turning control over into their hands when he came of age, as he never showed any real interest in the affairs of his family's business. However if they seriously believed that the boy might attempt to assert himself one day there were more than a few who would have gladly arranged to see that this never happened.
·         The Corrupter: Happosai destroys the morality of everyone he trains.
Comb: Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder, and...you find that remarkable? Recall that he had Happosai for a mentor.
Hairbrush: Ah yes, I suppose that does explain it...somewhat.
·         Cosmic Plaything: Nabiki described Ranma as this
Nabiki: I could almost get the impression that some lovesick girl was drooling about her stupid boyfriend who can’t seem to manage to stay out of trouble for as long as five minutes. Imagine.On the other hand, whatever else you can say about Ranma and his troubled fortunes, life sure has been anything but dull, and somehow I find myself looking forward to the challenge of tomorrow… provided we both somehow by some miracle survive it.
·         Crazy-Prepared: When Shampoo came to get Ranma so that he could get to Ryoga’s match with Kennou Nodoka went into the closet and pulled out a helmet.
o    Ranma was able to get into an expensive restaurant by saving up money for a week. Stashing fancy clothing for him and Nabiki in the ally behind the restaurant. He was also able to find out what restaurant Ukyo and Shampoo were going to by simply asking them.
Ranma: Didn't think I could plan this far ahead, huh? I know these places got a fancy dress code, and they won't let us in if we look like a couple of High Schoolers. With these on we can at least pass ourselves off as the swanky types they'd only let into this kind of restaurant.
Nabiki: All right, so maybe it's not fair to compare Ranma to a pod person, but the guy I was with today sure looked, talked and acted a lot like my iinazuke, only a whole lot smarter than I'd ever given him credit.
o    Knowing that Cybelle would eventually try to destroy her capstone Ganglot sculpted a perfect replica to act as a decoy
o    To make sure that Ranma didn’t freak out sneak off and get lost like a Hibiki. She gave Ryoga permission to hit him if he runs.
o    The previous homeroom teacher before Hinako left her meticulous notes in the "Absentee Form," the reasons given for excusable absences included
Homeroom Teacher: I was late/absent from class for the (fill in length of time absent) because
o    Trapped in Another World: I was sucked into a parallel dimension and forced to take part in a galactic revolution.
o    Alien Abduction: An Alien Empire abducted me for study/matrimonial purposes.
o    Combat by Champion: I was challenged to defend the honor of my Clan/School/Nation/Planet/Home Dimension.
o    Really Royalty Reveal: An old Enemy/Past Acquaintance revealed that I am the heir to a Galactic Dynasty.
o    Superpowerful Genetics: It was revealed that I have inherited unusual abilities and must defend the Earth.
o    Love Dodecahedron: I am involved in an unusual Love Triangle/Quadrangle that monopolizes my personal life...
o    Knowing that her capstone was her Achilles' Heel Ganglot sculpted a decoy.
·         Creation Story: Ganglot is fond of telling these to people
Ganglot: PRESENTING FOR YOUR DELIGHT AND ENLIGHTENMENT THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD AS TOLD BY SOMEONE OTHER THAN MEL BROOKS!
·         Crippling Overspecialization: Played with while Shampoo’s and Ambergris are near enough in skill to be equals, the range of Ambergris's techniques has been expanded by travel and training outside the confines of their village, giving her a distinctive advantage.. Shampoo's skills are largely centered on the basic Wushu of her upbringing, and though she is incredibly fluid with a complete mastery of her supple body, her training has numerous holes and drawbacks to be exploited.
·         Crossover: With his other fanfic A Very Scary Thought
·         Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Nodoka
Nabiki: I saw Shampoo hesitate as her face registered surprise at being asked such an insightful question. I was beginning to appreciate myself that Saotome Nodoka had a lot more on the ball than I had previously expected.
o    Played with the Trustees for the Kuno holdings had long been assured that the son of Kuno Godai would never be ruled fit to govern a corporation as large and influential as what they had built through their (in a manner of speaking) sweat and labor. All the accounts that they had heard regarding Kuno Tatewaki was that the boy was a fool and class clown who indulged in romantic fantasies best relegated to Samurai movies. He was an indifferent student with a poor academic record and a history of disruptive behavior that had all but insured that he would never amount to anything of real significance. However this proved not to be the case when he waltz into the board room and took over leading them to believe that this was the case.
§  Genma defeated Cybelle using the Senken to destroy her source of power.
Cybelle: THAT FAT FOOL IS THE DESTROYER??? You must be joking!
o    He was also the one to point out that it would be a bad idea to give Nabiki an engagement ring and not Shampoo
·         Cool and Unusual Punishment: How does Kodachi punish Sasuke by making him watch the Teletubbies.
Sasuke: Not the Teletubbies tapes…for the love of Humanity, NOT THE TELETUBBIES!
·         Crippling Castration: Cybelle the Demi-Dryad is a Mesopotamian goddess whose followers used to do this.
·         Cruel Mercy: This is the reason Mon Mon saved shampoo
Shampoo: The jars of pickles that my wife and I had gathered so painstakingly with Miss Hinako's assistance went tumbling out into space, as did most of our allies, with the sole exception of Nabiki and me. Kirin was the cause for my wife's last-minute rescue, having leaped forward to catch her before she could fall with the others, while Mon Mon reacted with incredible speed to whip out her musical instrument, and with a single quick note she sent cat-string chords out to ensnare me before I had even begun falling. I was most surprised that she would react this way to save me, but then I saw the dark gleam in her eyes and realized that her reasons were anything but altruistic.
o    Happosai trapping Cologne in her original form ended up being this as it allowed her to rediscover her self-respect as a woman
Cologne: I had thought myself happy to be the Matriarch of the Joketsuzoku, but so much weight and responsibility hung about my shoulders that when it was taken away...I did not know what I should do with myself. Starting out life all over can be frightening when the foundations of your world are knocked out from underneath you...but thanks to a certain stubborn mage of my acquaintance...I have begun to learn more about myself than I had ever known from meditation and reflection.
o    This also the reason she didn’t seek out revenge as she felt that being married Hinako was all the punishment she could ever wish upon him.
·         Cry for the Devil: Though that didn’t stop her from killing him Nabiki didn’t feel angry at Akuma Zesutoru but pity for the Sanity Slippage he had gone through
·         Culture Clash: Shampoo and later Ju-Lan and Ro-Mano
o    Comb and Silk have already become accustomed to Japan
·         Curb-Stomp Battle: Ranma’s first battle with Prince Kirin ended this way
Lotion: First off, I'd like to hear your own appraisal of your performance against Lord Kirin.
Ranma: I think I got my butt whipped.
Lottion: Humiliating, isn't it, taking such abuse from a fellow who always refers to himself in the third person?
o    After finding out that Lotion was still alive Shampoo ran off and eventually came across a biker gang. Needless to say, it wasn’t pretty.
Perfume: Perfume see handiwork. Find eight men taking nap five kilometers that way. Shampoo take eleven seconds. Perfume think she go easy, maybe play with men, why no finish sooner...
·         Curse That Cures: It is theorized that Jusenkyo itself is this. Jusenkyo is more than a place of sorrows; it appears to have a living spirit that works through these curses to some greater end. The only way to truly be un-cursed is to fulfill whatever purpose was behind your cursing. Only when Jusenkyo is done with you will you be freed from its influence altogether.
o    The Amazon’s once used the Spring of Drowned Boy to correct a perceived deficiency of nature. Some men are born with the feeling that they are more Yin than Yang, and some women have the opposite problem, perceiving qualities of masculinity that are at variance with their expectations of what it means to be female. Many centuries ago a group of Amazons, led by the then-current Matriarch, opted to curse themselves with Nanniichuan waters in order to gain the strength and physical capabilities of men, which of course includes the ability to procreate with other women.
o    However this ended up being Cursed with Awesome as a curse that involves changing one's sex has a negative side effect in that it prevents pregnancy from being carried full term. Unless one is locked into female form, the act of turning male would cause an incompatible element such as a fetus to be...eliminated. And, of course, with Jusenkyo curses it is nearly impossible to avoid contact with cold water for a full nine months. The practice was outlawed when it became apparent that too many of their best warriors were being lost to them that way, and since linear descent has always traditionally been through the female side of the equation, many great families were being lost.
·         Cursed with Awesome: Cologne sees her true form as this being seen as she truly is by those whom she passes by in the street, most of whom take her to be a fairly attractive young woman of modest height and slender build wearing a gold ceremonial robe that had been in her family for countless generations. However the aged illusionary body had given her a dignity that her youthful bearing lacked, so now that she can no longer form it what people tend to see is not an ancient and mysterious hag but a girl barely old enough to be that long out of High School. Embarrassing did not begin to cover her status.
o    Don’t for get the fact she also has to contend with the all the classic problems of her youth, such as being "hit upon" by countless male suitors who thought a "young beauty" such as herself is a prized possession to be coveted and collected. As she is a Gender Flipped version of No Guy Wants to Be Chased the notion makes her want to retch.
o    She also now has to explain why she doesn’t age.
o    Hinako's "coin trick" Satsu, is an art forbidden to Amazons for nearly three thousand years because the mind is the plaything of the body. The technique gives one the ability absorb battle auras, but at the cost of deterring one's physical growth and potential. Hinako looked roughly a third of her actual age because of the alterations made to her unique constitution by a combination of pressure points and exercises that gave her absorption abilities worthy of a minor Demon. Chronologically she is an adult, but when in normal mode her physiology lacked the development of her adult form. She will eventually grow to be the woman she appears when absorbing battle auras full time, but not for many, many years, which means that most of the time she has to cope with a child's raging biochemistry, which included a metabolism that burned sugar like nitro.
o    Ukyo’s Jusenkyo curse seems to be this while she is adamant about how inconvenient it is to now turn into a guy because of a curse. Makoto answered that Ukyo would always wish that she was a man and she is.
o    It seems that being a Clueless Chick Magnet is a Saotome trait.
Happosai: I suppose the blame really falls on Genma, though. Your father was the same way you are when he was your age, always scared of the ladies, afraid of telling them how he felt; having pretty women literally fighting over him for the honor of dating him, even though he chose in the end to accept an arranged marriage to one of them, go figure!
o    However the women they attract are almost always Tsundere.
Happosai: Your father could really line them up around the block in his day, but he never could figure out what to do with them when he had them eating out of his hand. It’s the curse of his line that makes him that way, I suppose…the Saotome men have always been courted by strong and aggressive women, it’s the curse you must bear to be the latest in the line to be confronted by the Combat Fiancées.
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·         Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Razor has No Sense of Direction and is a Forgetful Jones so wondered off and forgot about you 30 seconds later.
o    After she was on diagnosed with cancer Kimiko was granted a wish from the goddess relief hotline her wish was for them to extend her life. To do this Poerth (the goddess sent to grant her wish, and who Kimiko was a template of) merged with her causing Kimiko to become her avater. Unfortunately Poerth eventually was called back to heaven
·         Daddy's Girl: When Laser-Guided Karma finally hit Cologne for her My Beloved Smother / Manipulative Bastard actions Yosho was the first person she went to. She also ran to him when trying to hide from Siren.
·         Deadpan Snarker: Comb is the master of this
Kachu: Then why did you let me believe that he was dead all of these years
Comb: To soften up the blow, no doubt. Just in case you ever actually met him.
Comb: Congratulations, Tendo Soun, you’ve just become the proud poppa to a bouncing baby twenty-year-old Devil Hunter. I hope the two of you are very happy together.
·         Deal with the Devil: Ganglot granted Ju-Lan and Ro-Mano’s wish to get out of their villiage so that they could be together, but she also arranged it so that they had no other choice but to work for her or take their chances with the unknown Japanese customs
·         Death Is the Only Option: This is the reason Tenchi kept his eyes shut after swallowing a love pearl realizing that to open them was to court disaster on a colossal level. It didn't matter WHO he looked at next, one or more of his companions was likely to protest the act with explosive consequences, and with him trapped, as usual, in the middle!
·         Defrosting Ice Queen: Nabiki is a young girl who lost her mother at a very tender age, and it was this loss that has colored every aspect of her life ever since. She effectively learned to shut down her emotions in order to function when there was a need for family unity, to turn away from her own grief and bury herself in the task of trying to keep her family financially solvent. She became obsessed with material pursuits and started applying her intellect to finding ways in which to support herself in the absence of her emotionally distraught father. When Ranma entered her life it was at a critical juncture when she was just starting to notice that there were other people in the world with needs besides herself, a too-brief window of opportunity in which she allowed her loneliness to overcome her desire to remain aloof and unaffected. When she chose to be his fiancée she set in motion a chain of circumstances that have since opened her up, both emotionally and intellectually, to seeing the world in entirely new patterns. Ranma is therefore the linchpin of her entire life now, and without him she would be lost and alone, forced back into that empty shell of an existence from which he removed her.
o    Averted with Razor and Cybelle while he was able to temper her devilish impulses it didn’t stick
o    Tofu's relationship with Kachu
·         Dead Person Conversation: Thanks to Peorth Nabiki was able to do this with her mother
·         Deconstructed Character Archetype: Mousse is a deconstruction of the Dogged Nice Guy. His continued pursuit of her despite the fact that she is clearly uninterested is in no way treated as a redeemable trait. Not only has he refused to allow any man near her all their lives, his Always Save the Girl ignores the customs of their tribe embarrassing and greatly dishonoring her. This shows that Mousse does not care at all about Shampoo’s feeling and sees her as little more then a prize. Exemplified by the fact Shampoo admitted that the reason she treats him so poorly was to drive away and get him to leave her alone but just refuses to listen.
o    He also comes across as cruel and petty given that he tried to manipulate Frost into fixing his eyesight by pretending to be in love with her. Yet made no attempt in the slightest at hiding that, what he was doing.
o    He flat out turned murderously sadistic when the three consummate their marriage when he attempted to try an manipulate Ranma into killing Nabiki. In an effort to use the laws that he didn’t care about to force Shampoo into marrying him. Shampoo knowing that he would never let her keep her child flat out said she would rather die then let that happen.
·         Deity of Human Origin: Played with as Gods are merely a parallel evolution to humans who are closer to the source of all that governs the cosmos, so things happen in a larger scale, commensurate with the fact that there are only a few thousand of them to several score millions of Humans.
o    Averted like humans Gods and Demons evolved from the Star Tribe
Lotion: You're doing a delightful job of illustrating my point. You see what I have been telling you, Apprentice? Beyond the superficial differences that you might find, at heart they are much the same as ourselves in their behavior.
·         Demonic Possession: This is how Ganglot was summoned into this plane of existence. It is essentially a Merger of Souls as she and a Human Sacrifice became one and assimilated one another.
·         Demon Slaying: Kachu is a very powerful fighter, who doesn’t just fight with physical strength, she also has a powerful spirit that makes her able to battle demons. It is her to destroy evil Demons when she encounters them.
·         Demoted to Dragon: Hild does this to Cybelle after she was banished to hell.
·         Department of Redundancy Department: Nabiki's freak-out over shampoo being pregnant devolved into this
·         Determinator: As a Hibiki Kennou has always found finding her way to be a difficult feat, but she managed well enough through a combination of flawless memory and sheer determination, not letting herself be distracted even when her thoughts tended to wander, as lost as she might be had she not perfected her system of location.
·         Did Not Get the Girl: Hiroshi just didn’t feel the same way about Kennou that she felt for him.
·         Distracted by the Sexy: Nabiki seems to like doing this to Ranma.
·         Vice Principal Hiro when he first met Hinako at least until she changed causing him to panic fearing that he was about to be mistaken for pedophile.
·         Didn't Think This Through: Ambergris’ mother originally wanted to name her Perfume in honor of the Elder in her family who bears the name, but unfortunately Perfume was born on almost the exact same night perhaps an hour or two before Ambergris. So when it was pointed out to her that there were two Perfumes being born at the same time, she decided to change her daughters name to Ambergris, mainly because she liked the sound of it, and nobody had the heart to tell her that it was another name for Whale Puke.
Ukyo: Maybe she thought of it because it's used in making Perfume, right?
Ambergris: That is what I surmise. "How typically shortsighted of my mother, though I love and respect her memory and wish no ill will between us. At least my father was more understanding when he counseled me to always be true to myself and never let what other say depress me. A wise man, my father...
·         "Die Hard" on an X: The Pangea side story Titanic in a blimp
·         Digging Yourself Deeper: Soun’s arguments against his arrange marriage to Kimiko ended up leading to this. Sayng that they didn’t know each other was meant with his father telling him to get to know her be fore rejecting her. In addition since Kimiko had already given her consent he couldn’t use taking her feelings into account. His final approach was claiming that he was still a young man with prospects but that just caused his father to call him out for attempting to cheapen Kimiko’s image by flirting about chasing after other women.
·         Dirty Coward: Happosai considered Red Saladin as well as all terrorist leaders this someone who would gladly sacrifice others to protect himself. Terrorist leaders were always quick to send their lackeys into martyrdom rather than face the consequences themselves (no doubt because the accounting that they would reap in Hell would be far more severe than for said lackeys).
o    The terrorist leader Saladin subscribes to the management theory that when faced with an insurmountable problem a good CEO always turns to his subordinates to ward off such bothersome details. I.E using his mooks as cannon folder allowing him to escape
§  Akuma Zesutoru instinct for survival and self-preservation was the main reason he had put himself at the top of the food chain
o    Shampoo considers Cybelle this due to the fact that she is not above attacking an unarmed opponent such as when she attacked Ryonami.
Shampoo: For myself I was outraged at the cowardly act of seeking to harm a non-warrior in a casual display of her powers. We were all similarly vulnerable, but some of us are prepared to risk our lives in every battle that we take a part in, so attacking one who could not defend herself was shameful. Even Mousse would not sink so low and I doubt even Kuno would be at ease with such tactics were his mind not clearly influenced by the powers of the Demoness.
·         Disproportionate Retribution: As revenge for Ranma taunting him because of his Laser-Guided Karma Happosai took away his strength and caused the loins sleep tonight
o    Ambergris befriended Shampoo with the intent of learning all that she could about Shampoo’s style before meeting her on the challenge log and proving herself her better. For that Shampoo slashed out one of her eyes.
o    Zig zagged Quinon was willing to work with Ganglot both because she was no longer affiliated with the Demonic Branch of the Malicious Wish department and felt that her punishment for granting Happosai with Immortality was enough. However given the rumors about Happosai Urb didn’t think so.
·         Does Not Know His Own Strength: When Nabiki uses Time Stands Still her blows tend to carry a lot more kinetic force than they normally would have, so a simple slap turns into a Megaton Punch.
·         Dogged Nice Guy: Ryoga to Akane
o    Do to the customs of her village Ranma inadvertedly treated Shampoo as this. In her culture when a boy accepted The Glomp he was tacitly accepting her proposition, so Ranma disinclination to fight and hit Shampoo was taken for a sign that he actually liked her.
·         Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Averted when ATOTW Nabiki switched places with Original Nabiki she was applaud at the abuse inflicted on Ranma by Akane on a fairly routine basis.
Nabiki: This is your idea of love? Another woman makes a pass at him and your first instinct is to blame Ranma for being unfaithful?
·         Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal: Not much fuss is given of the fact that Ryoga was conceived by Atsuko using her magic to pretend to be Nodoka. In fact the second time she tried it Nodoka offered her a Ho Yay opportunity.
Nodoka: But think about it if you are still intent on renewing relations with my Genma. There is no reason why we should be enemies, and since Ryoga is Genma's son, I would think it only proper that we come to some...mutually beneficial arrangement.
o    Genma is even the one presented as in the wrong
Genma: Why didn't you ever tell me this before, At-chan?
Atsuko: What was I to tell you? That I tricked you into having a kid with me? You were stuck on marrying Nodoka, and I didn't think I had any chance prying the two of you away, and besides...I've been on the run from my mother ever since. The only reason I've been able to find Ryo-chan at all is because of this amulet Mom gave me when I was still in her good graces," she held up what looked like a pendulum of some sort that dangled on a golden chain.
·         Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female: Neither Ranma nor Nabiki had any trouble forgiving Shampoo for literally roping the oth of them into our three-way orgy. In fact it is ultimately treated as a good thing.
o    Mihoshi did essentially Date Rape Kiyone by dropping a love pearl in her tea.
o    Zigzagged with Mon Mon while it wasn’t an enjoyable experience for Shampoo and Nabiki since it was apart of a custom of a Cloudcuckooland which they agreed to take part of it wasn’t treated as a Moral Event Horizon for either her (who was no more eager than them) or Kirin.
·         Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male: Minako’s actions to Ryoga while under the affects of the juice of a Man-Eating Plant. Initially it was Dude He’s Like In A Coma, but when he regained consciousness his chronic shyness made him to freaked out by what was happening to stop it.
·         Drama-Preserving Handicap: The island barrier on Pangea prevented the Velari from helping the heroes in their fight against the Trogs
o    As an Elder of the Joketsuzoku Lotion couldn’t directly partake in an attack upon the Prince of Nekonron as it could have serious ramifications back home.
o    Anri not dealing with Shang-Kwan personally was this. AVST Nabiki even asked him why he didn’t do it.
Nabiki: Well, if you're so tough, why aren't you the one out there kicking the butts of creeps like this Shang-Kwan?
Anri: Aside from the fact that it would be dramatic overkill? I dare not venture forth directly or else a greater enemy would be alerted to my presence. Besides, they are not my children, and would you rather entrust a stranger with their safety?
o    Anri himself put it perfectly why applying this trope is for the best.
Anri: Suppose that there was a man who took to the hobby of raising a colony of ants within a cage of glass that comprised the whole world of his selection. Now it is certainly condescending to infer that humans are mere ants or that I myself would be a giant in relation to ordinary men, and so the analogy is awkward...but for the sake of the matter, suppose another giant comes along and decides to sow mischief in the colony by introducing some rogue ants who will disrupt the harmony of the ants within their dominion. What if the first giant opposes the actions of the second giant and the two of them take to quarreling with one another on top of the ant hill...
Nabiki: In other words...the two giants fight and the ants get stepped on?
o    During the Seven Lucky Gods Arc since they used gas for their blimp instead of helium Mokoto couldn't use her powers
·         The Dreaded: Even Cologne speaks of Shan Kwan with trepidation
o    Kodachi’s mother had been a certified nut case who took her own life after abusive mistreatment of both of her children. Kodachi very rarely even mentions her.
o    Shampoo started as this Kodachi mentioning her mother was a warning of how serious the situation was when Shampoo returned, but the thought of Shampoo pounding her flat was enough to hold Nabiki silent.
o    Chiun instantly ran away as fast as his legs could carry him when Cologne greeted him.
·         Drives Like Crazy: Shampoo would give Yukari a run for her money due to the fact that she is a Badass Driver who seems to be under the distinct impression that traffic laws are something that happens to other people. Shampoo can literally turn the laws of physics upside down and ride her motorcycle right up the side of a building, along fences and vaulting over drainage ditches like a purpled haired daredevil, her cat-like reflexes and sense of balance allowing her to compensate for the shift in my balance that came whenever she made a sharp turn at corners (mercifully few of those since Shampoo prefer to go THROUGH obstacles rather than around them!).
·         Deus ex Machina: Discussed by Poerth during the fight with Kirin to describe Ranma.
==E==
·         Education Mama: Comb unlike Cologne doesn’t believe that formal education isn't relevant so enrolled Shampoo into Furinkan because no daughter of hers will grow up as ignorant as she was when she was 16.
·         Elemental Embodiment: Gods are the embodiment of elemental energies. They are, in a sense, anthropomorphic representations of the primary powers of nature
·         Embarrassing Nickname: Played with in that it is Genma’s real name being used but to hide him from Nodoka Comb claimed his Panda form was nicknamed Mister Saotome.
o    Taken even further when she gave his real name is Mandarin causing Silk to blink and Kasumi to blush.
o    For Ambergris it’s Whale Puke
Ukyo: Tell me, Sugar, how did you wind up with a name like Ambergris? That must have caused you some fights when you were a kid...
Ambergris: Oh, more than a few. I’m reminded of that Gaijin song about a Boy named Sue, but in my case it just added another factor for other children to pick on me.
·         Emotional Maturity Is Physical Maturity: Played with since being locked in her true form Cologne has made the grim discovery that she no longer feels as much at home with the older cast members of their ongoing soap operatic adventure. Give her the company of young people any day over the jaded antics of their clueless elders.
Cologne: It was a rather startling admission for one of her age and stature, but it reminded her painfully of how much she had come to enjoy the role of a teacher. At least young minds had some flexibility that you could work with, and their attitudes were not as hardened into pre-set and determined patterns, which meant that you could in some measure influence their future behavior by helping to change their present outlook. Older people were far more reluctant to change their established ways, and so you had to work a lot harder just to help them grasp the basics.
o    This may be more of a case of the The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
·         Enemy Mine: Elder Lotion aided Ganglot in tricking Cybelle into destroying her replicated capstone.
o    Kodachi and Nabiki when shampoo was first introduced
Kodachi: That ridiculous hairstyle and that awful color…and those…implants she must obviously be carrying, those cannot be natural! She must be incredibly top-heavy!
Nabiki: Definitely have back problems when she’s older,
Both: I hate her!
·         Enfant Terrible: Jingo was raised on the taste of human flesh and quite obviously reveals in it.
·         Enlightenment Superpowers: This is essentially what being a Lore Master is. The Loremaster is a seeker of knowledge and a guardian of wisdom. They are keepers of the sacred mysteries of space, time and all things that are hidden and yet to be revealed, they know that which is unspoken, for the universe whispers its secrets to them and they interpret those mysteries for the benefit of humanity. It is impossible to lie to a Loremaster, for they hear the truth when it is spoken and recognize when it is being distorted for selfish purpose. They are attuned to the fabric of the universe.
·         Ensemble Dark Horse: Mon Mon was appointed by Kirin to be a representative who could make a thorough study of the outside world and report back to him about the cultural and technological innovations that our modern society had to offer.
·         Entitled Bastard: Akuma in his own words he has no problem sacrificing people because life is meaningless but he doesn’t kill himself because he must chronicle his vision for the masses
·         Entitled to Have You: Akane acts like a Spoiled Brat every time Ukyo rejects her
·         Epic Fail: The entire universe was caused because this.
Urd: According to the original projected plot for this timeline, Saotome Ranma was to meet and become engaged to one Tendo Akane, only something happened...a paradigm shift in the system, possibly caused by a Bug or a glitch, and the engagement got switched over to you. Imagine that and what a fuss it made back in the home office when the anomaly was discovered.
Nabiki: That's impossible,
Urd: You're telling me? Contrary to popular belief, the system is a long way from infallible. I don't know why some mortals insist that we're so all-fired perfect or that the 'divine plan' never makes glitches because as a System Analyst I'm in a position to know that this sort of fuck-up happens a lot more often than you could imagine. To err may be human, but to really screw things up takes a computer.
o    Ranma’s first attempt at proposing to Nabiki and Shampoo ended with a Crazy Awesome Murder the Hypotenuse attempt and his second attempt ended with Nabiki getting kidnapped.
§  Even after all of that he still ended up giving them the wrong rings
o    Ryoga piloting Kirin’s blimp to Pangea
Nabiki: Don't ask us how you did it, Ryoga-kun, but you just put us a few thousand miles off course in the southern hemisphere, and this Island dead ahead of us is named which is supposedly also known as 'The Land That Time Ignored.
·         Et Tu, Brute?: Not even Nabiki could look at her counterparts cursed form and not be attracted to it.
·         Even Evil Has Standards: As a Friend to All Children Happosai angrily denied that he intended to use Hinako to further your own perverse pleasures
o    Happosai does not number pedophilia among his numerous vices and he would never raise a hand to harm Hinako.
Ukyo: I get it, you aimed for Cologne but you got Hinako by mistake.
o    Happosai is not totally lacking in redeeming qualities, as signified by his hamhanded attempts to assist Hinako, but even his most noble aspirations tend to go sour because of his single-minded obsessions and obliviousness to the inevitable consequences.
o    Even the Oni found Kodachi’s mind to much to look upon
o    While Happosai has been an absolute terror to every male member of his line, and a source of humiliation to every girl-child who could claim him for their Elder. He never had to lie to them to do whatever he wanted. Terrorized, intimidated them, bullied and humiliated them, humbled and starved them, but he never had to lie to them.
·         Everybody Has Lots of Sex: This is essentially the basic of the Love Bracelet arc. The lust card fueled love pearls caused everyone on the beach to go through this trope. It also involved a lot of Ho Yay, Foe Yay with cameo’s
·         Everyone Has Standards: There are limits to how far you can buy the silence of certain people and transporting Jusenkyo water out of the country goes far beyond those limits.
o    Even Kodachi thinks Shiratori Azusa is a certified loon
o    The Nerima Police felt that Ro-Mano’s No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on a couple of girls merely for hitting on her boyfriend was excessive even for this city.
·         Every One Loves Blondes: Nigel has a theory concerning Blondes and their behavior. It is a theory borne from long and arduous study of the subject, or—to be more precise—-a study of the seemingly endless stream of Blonde secretaries that often filled Temp (or permanent) positions for Professor Sidney Fox. His theory is a variation on the theme of natural selection, owing primarily to his belief that blonde haired women have a competitive advantage when it came to attracting the favorable attention of the opposite sex. Men the world over are drawn to blondes the way any species is attracted to the colorful plumage or distinguishing characteristics that become associated with health, exoticness and successful reproductive ability. Blondes conjure to mind the Viking ideal of the Valkyrie, bathing beauties sunning themselves along the beach, or inhumanly lithe Snow Bunnies from Sweden. To have a blonde on your arm is a symbol of status, a mark of male virility and success, to be a pack leader and to command the admiration (and envy) of millions. As such they do not have to work so aggressively at finding a mate as do brunettes, so qualities such as intelligence had lesser importance and could even count as a deficit, and as such the vast number of Blonde jokes in the world have a kernel of truth behind them.
·         Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: According to Elder Lotion this is simply a statement of fact.
Lotion: Believe what you must, Apprentice. But you were the one whom Neferti had the most to fear. It is in the hands of mortals, not immortals, that the power to bring an end to evil must reside. Evil is opposed to nature, it warps and corrupts the very fabric of whatever it contaminates through direct or indirect contact. An idea by itself is neither good nor evil, but when put into practice it can take the shape of such monstrous things as what you encountered in the hearts and minds of Akuma and his people. Where once they lived in harmony with nature they became obsessed with conquering death through the sacrifice of others, much like the Aztecs of Central America, or the Anasazi...or many other groups who believe that the secret to prolonging life is to take life from another. In that sense they were seeking to prolong themselves by stealing your vitality and essence, much as Neferti sought to drain the energy of her victims and thus sustain herself while cut off from the normal access routes of her true power.
o    Averted Shang-Kwan understands the concept of community, kinship ties and friendship and has observed the traits in others. He’s just never felt them in his own life, and doesn’t want to.
·         Evil Counterpart: Inverted Nabiki found herself actually liking the A Very Scary Thought version of Kuno Tatewaki as rather than the "cold fish" of her world who is the willing helpmate of Cybelle and tends to spend his days running his father's empire with an iron bokken. He is actually the Samurai hero that he only once imagined himself to be, and the nobility of his spirit is so great that he actually won the affections of Natsume Tendo.
·         Evil Is Hammy: Cybelle has a penchant for cheap melodrama.
Ganglot: She's sounding more and more like some character out of an Anime, right down to the bad dialogue and empty threats against the heroes.
·         Evil Is Petty: Played with while not evil before his Heel–Face Turn Ryoga is Ranma’s rival and was honestly trying to kill him. However as Cologne revealed his motivation for this is feelings of inadequacy compared to Ranma.
Cologne: The boy’s intentions towards you were his even before I agreed to assist in his training. He had to prove himself against you because you made him look small in the eyes of someone who cares a great deal about him. Did you ever think of his feelings when you taunted him in front of Akane?
o    Jerkass Has a Point: Ranma has a real do unto others approach to how he treats people
Ranma: Hey, he was trying to kill me! What do you expect me to do? Cheer him on for his persistence?
·         Exact Words: This is how the Hibiki curse works according to Ganglot it was the way the Gypsy witch put it that affects Razor’s fundamental sense of direction...something like, 'May you be cursed to never find your way,' which of course is why he always turns left when he means right and goes backward instead of forward. Give him a maze and he can negotiate his way through it very time, but tell him to cross the room to the opposite end and he will wander aimlessly in circles.
Nigel: So the legends of the wandering Hibiki are true? He truly was cursed to wander the world, never to rest through all eternity?
Ganglot: Actually it was more like, 'Why don't you watch where you're going, you big Oaf?
o    Lore Masters train to heal the rifts caused by others so of course Silk would help Comb and Atsuko repair the damage Shampoo caused when she went on a rampage after finding out Lotion was alive
o    By the laws of Nekonron any woman who holds the sacred scroll is the fated Bride of Kirin. So the fact that Nabiki caught it by mere chance causes Kirin to call it fate in motion.
Prince Kirin: The scroll selected you at the exact appointed hour when Kirin was fated to come looking for his bride. The hour of our meeting was fated to be this way, and so there can be no doubting that you are his bride, and Kirin is most fortunate to have a Bride who is as lovely and obviously intelligent as you strike Kirin as being.
o    Joketsuzoku law states those women who are defeated by outsider men must marry those men however there are other ways to defeat a person then physically Hairbrush married Comb after he defeated her in a game of chess.
o    Ever since Ranma was a little boy Genma has told him that there was a nasty old lady who was following them around and wanted to chop them up for her dinner. With all the folks that Genma rubbed the wrong way over the years he figured there had to be some truth to it, so whenever he’d tell Ranma the old lady was closing in on them it was his way of saying they had to move on and find a new place to hide. Imagine Ranma’s surprise when that old lady turned out to be his mother.
o    Silk cast a generic spell to summon a Hibiki...a Hibiki known to be a legendary wanderer who sows his seed wherever he travels? However since that statement can describe virtually every Hibiki the spell ended up Gone Horribly Right.
o    Lotion really is a Doctor of Antiquities from China she just didn’t tell Hinako that she got it in the 1920s.
§  Also the NWC are a fraternity of powerful fighters who she instructs in Martial Lore and Philosophy of Ancient China
·         Expecting Someone Taller: Prince Kirin wasn’t impressed by Ranma in the least
Kirin: To have won the loyalty of both her and an Amazon would leave Kirin to believe that you stood seven heads high and had arms the size of boulders, yet here I see a mere boy, a sapling, not hardly a pine tree. Such a one as you could never be meriting Kirin's attention were it not that you have a claim upon his future Bride.
o    When you hear living Buddha you don’t expect Anri.
AVST-Nabiki: You're a Buddha? Excuse me for saying this, but I don't see your begging bowl or saffron robes anywhere about.
Anri: It's at the cleaners,
o    This is due to him being an Eluini one incarnation is always different from another, though some traits are held in common, with each new life an Eluini grows in strength, knowledge and wisdom, and Lord Anri is presently on his tenth incarnation
·         Extreme Doormat: Ryoga’s constant emotional abuse at the hands of Akane caused Ranma to eventually give him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech over the fact he continuously allows her to treat him like a doormat.
Ranma: I never could see what you saw in her anyway. I mean...I know she treated you a hell of a lot better than she did me, and I ain't exactly her biggest fan to begin with, but to me she was always just some violent tempered macho chick who always expects everything to go her way, and she gets mad when it don't...
Ukyo: You're not exactly being fair to Akane, Ranchan, Akane isn't that macho, and she's only occasionally violent...
Ranma: Like that makes a difference? Come on, Ucchan, face facts! She just ripped his heart out and broke it into piece. Ryoga may stand for that, but I sure as hell don't see why I should...
Ryoga: It's none of your business, Ranma.
Ranma: I say it is, just because you like playing a door-mat doesn't mean I should sit it out and let her get away with it...
Ryoga: And who the hell are you to complain? It's my life...
Ranma: To throw away? To spend the rest of your life mooning over a girl who never had the guts to tell you she wasn't interested in guys? That's a hell of a lump to have to swallow...
==F==
·         Failure Is the Only Option: For Cologne Siren told her that under no uncertain terms she would claim her heart
·         Familiar: Shirokuro isn’t actually a dog but an Oni spirit-familiar who was merely cast into the likeness of a harmless animal. In reality she is Ryoga’s protector, his guardian companion, charged with keeping him safe from harm.
·         Fantastic Drug: The Africanus Gigantus Erodatum is a wild lotus native to Pangea that blooms once a year. The pollen spores of the flower have a curious effect upon mammalian constitutions. It triggers a sort of mating instinct that tends to lower inhibitions and relaxes social consciousness to the point where a human is driven into a kind of sexual frenzy.
o    Godai Kuno created a resin-based narcotic by extracting juices distilled from the petals of the black rose itself. His daughter later refined his techniques creating neural inhibitors and mood suppressants as well as paralysis powder
§  Unfortunately the Black Rose-derived narcotic also induce a heightened state of psychotic self-delusion.
o    The Incense of Erotic Passion relaxes inhibitions and strengthens the libido Peorth used it in a Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal match maker attempt on Akane and Ukyo
·         Fantastic Racism: It’s not that Peorth is prejudiced against Oni, as she will gladly inform anyone who dares to ask her, but the thought of Akane associating with the offspring of an Oni does not set well with her at all.
·         Fantastic Science: The Morpheus Project researches Pangea Island and the various dangerous life forms which reside there
·         Faster Than They Look: Despite his huge size Bishimonten is incredibly fast and an expert in the use of his weapon.
·         Fate Worse than Death: Shang-Kwan received two back to back after his defeat. To get him to give up Lotion threatened to leave him at the mercy of Lylac, Ekko and Fragrance. Nabiki took it a step further and threatened to hire him as a permanent housekeeper.
o    However horrified at the prospect what actually got him to back down was when Siren came to hand him over to either the ruling Council of the White Circle or the inform the Sorcerer Supreme about his recent activities knowing that with his record that they wouldn’t allow him his freedom.
'Kwan: Is it too late to reconsider that offer of housekeeping?
Lotion: Indeed it is,
Siren: Much too late…for you,
·         Feminine Women Can Cook: Averted in that Comb is a horrible cook leaving it up to Hairbrush to cook for the family.
·         Fish out of Water: Let’s just say that when she went to meet with Soun to offer to buy his property Naomi didn’t expect for an ELEPHANT of all things came crashing through the dojo wall, reducing the venerable structure to a pile of matchsticks (and nearly trampling her in the process!). Nor a flaying wooden ship suspended from gondolas to drop down out of the clouds to kidnap the Tendo heir, forcing her fiancée to perform an impossible leap in an aborted attempt at a rescue.
o    Naomi’s conventional upbringing had not prepared her for coming to terms with people who changed into animals with wings, or people with wings for that matter. Flying and fighting in the air was a little beyond what her college education would consider to be within the realm of possibility, and she was very much the outsider.
·         Flying Saucer: The Invincible Flagship of his the Admiral is described as a strange black object ovular in shape that moves like a cloud in almost total silence.
·         Forced Prize Fight: This was one of the things the Human Traffickers were planning on doing to Razor
·         Foreshadowing: When they first met Cologne mentioned how she had learned a great deal about Soun and Genma not just from Shampoo
o    After discovering the Lotion the Younger was still alive Shampoo ran off. Upon seeing the destruction she left behind in her wake and not yet away who caused it Ukyo claimed it looked almost like an elephant got loose and went charging through the dojo.
Akane: An elephant, in Nerima? Yeah...right.
Ukyo: Well hey, why not an elephant? I mean, stranger things have happened in this district, right?
·         Forgetful Jones: Razor received a curse in the forests of Ruenza of forgetfulness and periodic amnesia. He can't remember things for much longer than a minute, he tends to blank out all but the most general of details and would even forget his own name if people weren't always shouting it to him. Of course the fact that he inherited his Oni strength and resiliency from Ganglot is what has kept him alive all of these years, and nature endowed him with an indomitable charisma that makes him all but irresistible to most women.
·         Forgot About His Powers: Since a Lore Master’s abilities are instinctual this can happen allot with new trainees offsetting the New Powers as the Plot Demands aspect of the art
·         Forgot to Pay the Bill: Literally in Razor’s case.
·         For Want Of A Nail L: This universe was created when a Future Badass of Nabiki used Mental Time Travel to implanting foreknowledge of The Bitter End into her past self, causing her to accept the engagement.
o    Nabiki was quick to notice how much mature 59343921 Mousse was then hers.
·         Fragile Speedster: Perfume due to being a sentinel
o    She is also able to unleash total devastation making her a Glass Cannon as well.
·         Frameup: Cybelle did this to Mousse by stealing the spring of drowned male water and leaving a feather behind.
·         Friendly Enemy: Atsuko admits that it’s hard for her not to like Nodoka
·         Friendly Rivalry: This is why Ganglot got everyone pregnant so that Ranma’s daughter would have rivals and enemies who will challenge her to get stronger.
·         From a Certain Point of View: Silk didn’t lie to Kachu directly by telling her that herr father was dead, she just…well…more-or-less inferred that he was no longer with her, which is technically the truth when you think about it since Silk had parted ways with him some time ago, after he decided to marry Kimiko.
·         From Bad to Worse: In an effort to block the Love Pearl Silk attempted to use her Lore Master abilities unfortunately since it was made from Amazon Magic so when it encountered Amazon magic’s of a similar nature it absorbed it and multiplied itself.
o    After Nabiki gets kidnapped by Prince Kirin (and nearly made into his blushing bride against her consent) then due to Ryoga instead of home everyone ends up in Pangea where Nabiki is almost eaten by native cannibals.
·         From Nobody to Nightmare: Young Happosai was a very small man of slight build, quite unpromising for a candidate who would go on to become the greatest martial arts master of our age, Cologne notwithstanding. He had been picked on mercilessly by the people of the village of his birth, so as a youth he fled his homeland to wander the world in search of knowledge. He thought if he could master the arts taught to him by his father in Okinawa he could return home one day in triumph. So it was he found himself in the lands of the Nyanchiczu, tired, hungry and exhausted, to collapse almost literally at the feet of a young warrior named Kho Lon.
o    To be more specific when Cologne spurned his advances he was manipulated by Ganglot into wishing to become the greatest evil master ever known.
Ganglot: I felt I understood the demons that drove Happosai to be what he was even then, and it amused me to see the sort of mischief he could do if I promoted him from a minor to a major nuisance...especially since it majorly tweaked a woman with whom I then had a deep, abiding grudge.
·         Freudian Excuse: Happosai as a boy was much abused because he was small in stature and not very attractive. His father was not the best sort of role model that one could have asked for and belittled the youth, taunting him with saying that he would never amount to much in his life. In point of fact his father was deliberately needling the boy to try and make himself into a man, but it was cruel and thoughtless and did much to diminish Happosai's self-respect and self-image, and so he vowed to make himself into a great martial artist while nurturing his wounded pride by turning into a pervert who would ogle and molest young women.
==G==
·         Gag Boobs: A rare male example when D’Amour asked Razor if his pecks were real. However Frog was never in any doubt because no one would use that much Silicone on anything that doesn't have an hourglass figure.
·         Gag Penis: According to Elder Lotion her first husband had this
Nabiki: Hung like a horse?
Elder Lotion: As a matter of fact, I think they might have used one, but what matters is that it worked miraculously well…better than advertised,
·         Gambit Pileup: Cybelle used Ryoga as a weapon to get at his grandmother Ganglot. However Ganglot realizing what she was going to do had time to prepare a replica of her Capstone for Ryoga to destroy instead.
o    Cybelle gave Ryoga a fake kill scare leading him to believe that Ganglot was a horrible abomination that needed to be stopped at all cost. However before hand Ganglot created a decoy of her capstone leading Cybelle into a Near-Villain Victory causing her to react accordingly.
o    Cologne tried to set up an Operation: Jealousy by forcing Ukyo to go on a date with Shampoo as that she won the phoenix pill race. Ranma realizing this went along with it by giving Ukyo his blessing. He then set reservation at the same place
·         Generation Xerox: A number of characters have remarkable resemblances to there parents. Particularly their mothers such as Comb and Shampoo, Nodoka and Ranma-chan.
o    Ranma is Kenshin's current incarnate as well as his descendant.
o    Ranma-chan looks exactly like Cologne's deceased sister Xian Pu who drowned in Jusenkyo.
o    This also seems to apply to their love lives as well. While Kodachi's Mom had the hots for Ranma's Dad, as did Comb. Only the son of Atsuko fell in love with the daughter of Kimiko, even as the Niece of Yumi has caught the favors of Akane.
·         Genre Savvy: Ukyo used her knowledge of monster movies to keep her safe while on Pangea.
Ukyo: Don't talk like that, Sugar. Every time in a movie somebody says something dumb like that it always leads to trouble...
o    Akiko fully aware that D’Amour would try ditch her as soon as he had the opportunity she took the keys with her when she went on shore leave.
·         Glad I Thought of It: According to Happosai the Amazon’s have a habit of doing this by mastering techniques and claiming ownership long after its original creator has been lost to history.
o    The Amazons seem to truly believe that they are the creators of all martial lore Cologne even once told Shampoo of the legend of warring clans declared outlaw by the main Japanese government, forcing their Samurai to go underground and practice methods that were said to be Amazon in their original nature.
o    And its not just Joketsuzoku as Alison claimed that the Amazons coined the phrase
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend?"
·         A God I Am Not: Anri is less than a god but quite substantially more than an ordinary man, he is Daokan, one of the Four Lords of the Way, and anything else that might be said about him is wasted self indulgence. Anri himself would be the first to deny that he is in any part what myth and legend would make him out to be, for he has lived ten lives under different aliases, and in no two has he been exactly the same individual...and yet in every lifetime he remains Anri.
·         God Was My Copilot: Inverted the gods live their lives in direct parallel to the way things are done in the mortal world. They also have to periodically renew themselves in order to remain relevant to the working structure of the world, so in a way they have their own form of rebirth and reincarnation.
o    This is the reason Urb and Belldandy are so different from each other. Urd was born in a time when the world was in a very violent and primitive state and many things were done that would be unthinkable in our days. Belldandy grew up in more enlightened times when civilization was at a high point and ladies were taught good manners and refinement.
·         Gold Digger: One of the reasons Genma married Nodoka was that she came from a rich family.
·         Gone Horribly Right: Silk cast a spell for Atsuko to draw Razor Hibiki to Nerima however instead of casting a spell to summon a Hibiki she ended up casting a spell to summon every Hibiki.
o    Silk is prone to this.
·         Gone Horribly Wrong: Shampoo rebuffing Mousse’s affections with violence only seemed to encourage him to try again and again to impress her of his devotion, and over time he simply stopped listening to anything but his own addled desire to have her for his wife.
·         Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!: Colognes true form
o    Given that most of the characters are either part Jurian, Demon/God, both, or just absurdly powerful it’s easier to name the character’s who aren’t this. especially by the epilogue
o    This is the main reason the Hibiki clan is so large as Razor his so attractive that he attracts woman to him like fly’s to honey
o    Happosai averted this trope before he received his curse.
·         Green-Eyed Monster: Ranma and Nabiki after seeing Shampoo’s reaction to learning that Lotion the Younger was still alive.
o    Hairbrush does not like the fact that Comb spends so much time at the Tendo Dojo
Cologne: Do I detect a note of self-pity? Surely you're not jealous of a certain fat fool stealing your wife away...are you?
Hairbrush: Wouldn't you be...given their history together?
Cologne: I see...and you think she's already starting to fall for him all over.
Hairbrush: I don't believe that in her head Comb means to cheat on me, but though she denies it to herself, I can tell that she still has strong feelings for Saotome, or his antics wouldn't get to her the way they do. I doubt even she knows how deep her feelings run, but until she reconciles herself to the fact that he belongs to another I don't think I could expect her heart to be unconflicted.
o    Hairbrush is not the sort of man who is prone to petty fits of jealousy, but it is obvious enough that he privately detests Genma and sees him for the honorless buffoon that he is, he just prefers not to show it openly and instead affects a look of stoical indifference.
o    Ukyo towards Konatsu
o    Ranma, Shampoo and Kodachi were not happy about the fact that Picolet Chardin was flirted with their significant others.
·         The Guards Must Be Crazy: Shan Kwan’s gargoyle guardians were sleeping off a hangover when AVST Ranma and Mousse broke in
==H==
·         Half-Human Hybrid: Thanks to Jusenkyo Shama’s cursed form is that of a purple furred Cat-Girl
·         Hard Work Hardly Works: Averted Shampoo and Nabiki worked mighty hard to make up for Ranma's lack of a proper education in the art of being a boyfriend
·         Heart Is an Awesome Power: This is how Ki manipulation works
·         Heel Realization: While in a love pearl induce infatuation with Ryoga Ambergris called out Akane over the fact that she is stringing Ryoga along while pining for Ukyo. This cause Akane to admit that she was treating him horribly
o    Kachu got over her resentment of men as well started acting more kindly to Tofu after remembering that Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You.
·         Henpecked Husband: The original homeroom teacher before Hinako
o    Played with Soun was this with Kimiko and upon Silk’s return he was quick to fall into old patterns. However as she found when she tried to manipulate Naomi Nakamura he will put there foot down.
§  To which he played this trope straight.
o    Nabiki used this to explain the difference between her and her counterpart from A Very Scary Thought.
Nabiki: In a way I think that our men as much define the two of us as we are by each other. After all, my Ranma is a dynamic locus of chaotic energies who shakes the foundations of the world by his very presence, while I tend to be more of a stabilizer to his actions, a compass to keep his path in focus. Ranma here is in much the opposite position, a stable rock upon which to anchor his Nabiki when she unleashes the maelstrom that is contained by the force of her will. With her husband and children in jeopardy there would be no stopping the tide that she would unleash, and for that reason if nothing else she was desperately needed.
o    Genma is this to Nodoka when she puts her foot down he listens.
Nodoka: Answer me truthfully, for once.
Genma: I was ashamed, Nodoka. I thought if you'd seen the boy you would have said he...wasn't manly.
Nodoka: Now, that didn't hurt much, did it?
Genma: Hai.
o    Nabiki mentioned that she often have to resort to trickery and manipulation to get Ranma to behave and that she saw it as sign of the maturing of their relationship that she does it less and less often, having found the right buttons to push, and Ranma actively trying to stay on her good side.
o    In an effort to manipulate Shampoo into marrying Kuno. Nabiki gave Shampoo advice on how to do this
'Nabiki: Warriors like Kuno and Ranma are used to being alone. They’re not accustomed to having people jump all over them. They like to feel as if they’re in charge. You go jumping all over them and threatening to kill Ranko and it won’t make a very good impression.
o    Upon her return Shampoo proved to have mastered this ability
Cologne: She watched you play with the boy for several days. She said that you can make him dance to your tune with very little effort, and I can see that you do know how to use your charms to gain an advantage. She seems to admire you a great deal for that, and it shows in her behavior since she was never so coy with the boys of our village growing up. You have taught her to be subtle, for which I owe you great thanks as that is one lesson I have never been too successful in teaching…
o    Cleverly inverted with Comb and Hairbrush
o    This seems to be a big thing in Japan in traditional samurai houses it is the man who earns a living but the wife who controls the purse strings.
o    ‘’A Very Scary Thought’’ Ranma. Nabiki noted how different he was from her husband while she frequently had to argue and cajole my Ranma. This one tended to take orders from a woman out of habit, finding it comfortable to let his Nabiki do most of the thinking in their household.
·         Heel Realization: Since Nabiki befriended Shampoo to keep her from realizing that Ranma was her fiancée she felt horrible once The Reveal happened.
·         Here We Go Again!: Comb and Atsuko mentioned that there was a similar love pearl incident when they first came to Nerima
·         Heroic BSoD: Nabiki went through this when she thought Ranma had been killed in his first battle with Kirin
·         Heroic Sacrifice: Pai was starving with malnutrition and had nothing else to offer for her child to eat. So she made a deal with Akuma to grant her baby by him a chance at life, just as might any other parent in her position. The natives had insisted that there were miraculous healing powers that came with eating human meat, and she gambled her life that there was truth to their conviction, and such had proven to be the case for her daughter had lived, and so had the rest of her people.
o    When Ukyo ended up bringing back half as much Jusenkyo water as needed even though he needed the cure so that Nodoka would think he’s manly Ranma gave his bottle to Ryoga so he wouldn’t stay a Monstrous Humanoid.
·         Hero of Another Story: When they first came upon him Anri was having a sparing match with Azrarn from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
o    Terry Bogart is the Tendo’s repairman.
·         Hidden Depths: Much to Nabiki’s surprise after Kasumi explained the family situation Shampoo used her knowledge of Chinese Herbal medicine to get a job as Tofu’s assistant to help the Tendo’s bring in more money.
o    Nabiki assumed that Shampoo’s lack of modesty was due to her generally arrogant personality. So it was quite a jolt to discover that she was entirely selfconscious about her own beauty, reckoning that she must not be all that attractive if she failed to gain the interest of either of her two husbands. This caused Nabiki to realize that Shampoo wasn’t as stupid as she believed only culturally ignorant and lacking in many basic social skills to an extent very much like Ranma.
o    Who would have thought that Shampoo was secretly a Biker Babe
o    While Kasumi always seems so happy such happiness has a price. She sees the good in everyone, she looks beyond the chaos and opposition to see the harmony that underlies your existence. The negative polarity is balanced in her environment through the things she does as a daily routine. The housework, the cooking and cleaning, the thousand little chores that her family depend on her to perform.
Nabiki: But Kasumi seems to like doing them…
Lotion: At the cost of her own personal life? Indeed she is happy, and yet do any of you truly appreciate the coast of that happiness? How often do you show your gratitude for her restoring order to your well being? Do you know what your life would be like if she were not at the center keeping everything else in balance?
Lotion: We all have the power to project positive thoughts upon our environs. But in your sister’s case she puts out enough positive energy to dampen a Nuclear reactor. Think well of the price that is paid for always being pleasant and happy, and think well of her for choosing to use her natural talents in such a way that it creates the eye of the hurricane that is your general existence.
·         Hidden in Plain Sight: Who would have ever thought that Benzaiten would hide out as her own priestess?
·         Hide Your Otherness: It is hinted that Nodoka is hiding her Jurian heritage.
·         Hilarity Ensues: The love pearl arc when Silk multiplied the pearl
·         Hint Dropping: Quinon uses this to warn Ranma against Cybelle’s intentions against his daughter.
·         Hired Guns: Kennou hires herself out as this
·         * Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: Siren has had Mousse fetch special ingredients for her since he was six in an effort to get him away from the village and teach him to be more independent. So that he would stop making a fool of himself over Shampoo hoping that sending him on errands would get him off of his obsession with her. Unfortunately all that did was harden his determination to eventually win her as it was in Shampoo’s honor that he performed each task.
·         Hive Mind: The Star Tribe
·         Hoist by His Own Petard: When Kodachi attempted Slipping a Mickey on Kasumi Happosai forced Sasuke to perform a Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo
o    The bomb Konatsu’s step family was going to use to kill everyone at the reception ended up killing them.
o    The Oni thought to gain strength from Kodachi’s repressed desires, and instead it encountered her own inner demons.
o    Shang Kwan kidnapping Lylac, Ekko and Fragrance just ended with him becoming a Badly Battered Babysitter, throwing Ranma into a Void Between the Worlds just made him more powerful by giving Ranma the key to his defeat. Finally that key was due to his being a Bad Boss to his elementals.
o    Happosai trying to force feed the love pearl to Cologne only for it to end up in Hinako’s mouth an insatiable psychic vampire
o    Nabiki summoned the spirits of all the women that Akuma sacrificed and all the men he ordered killed to aid in his defeat.
·         Homosexual Reproduction: Kasumi and it had nothing to do with Instant Nannichuan, or anything else to do specifically with Jusenkyo.
·         Honor Before Reason: Budo teaches us the harmony and discipline that comes with the Art. While Ranma didn’t like how Ryoga was pretending to be Akane’s pet it’s not honorable to tell anyone about the weaknesses of one’s opponents.
o    That and he did feel responsible for Ryoga’s curse.
§  Nabiki was quick to call Ranma out on this asking how it was less honorable than letting him take advantage of her sister
Ranma: And then what? You know how angry she was about what he did to her hair? If she finds out about this she’ll probably kill him.
Nabiki: Excuse me? Wasn’t he trying to do the same thing to you?
Ranma: I know, but in spite of that I don’t think it’s honorable to betray him. Besides, I know he won’t hurt Akane. Ryoga couldn’t even stand to look at a girl—let alone talk to one—without passing
o    The reason Cologne didn't kill Mousse after he cursed Shampoo and Akane was because she owned his grandmother a favor.
§  Fridge Brilliance: It was later revealed that Mousse’s grandmother was Siren who in addition to being an Archmage was very adamant about wanting a relationship with Cologne so is it any wonder she didn’t want her to get involved
o    When Shang-Kwan kidnapped Lylac Fragrance and Ekko in Continuum-59343921 Cologne refused to call Siren for help
o    The Gambler King arc the whole thing hinged on whether or not young Saotome was indeed entitled to stake his claim upon the dojo in the first place, seeing as said claim was contingent upon his marrying a Tendo and inheriting it as her dowry in the first place. So the simplest solution for the Tendos would be to break off the impending marriage. If Ranma did not inherit the property then the document itself was not worth the price of the ink spilled on the paper.
o    Naomi refused to ask for directions on how to get out of the dojo.
·         Horrible Judge of Character: In spite of everything, Ranma had always deep down believed that his father was a basically good man, and they both adhered to the Warriors code which upheld that a Martial Artist should always use their skills in defense of the weak. Which was why he was hit hard about the revelation of Ukyo.
o    Atsuko refers to Happosai as a sweet guy shocking Nabiki who could not imagine any woman to so much as look at the old fossil, let alone smile at him with such a beatific expression (ignoring the fangs she was sporting, of course).
·         How To Stop The Deus Ex Machina: Discussed in universe when Mousse attempted to Murder the Hypotenuse Siren and Lotion waited in the wings long enough to realize that their services would only be required at the fight's conclusion. As Lotion told her apprentice while they would have stepped in if needed Nabiki had to learn to rely on her own abilities.
·         Hyperactive Metabolism: This is the reason most martial artist eat so much. For example Kachu eats needs more to eat due to her very energetic lifestyle. Demon hunters, have to work out a lot to keep in shape for when practicing her profession.
·         Hypno Trinket: Inverted Frost created a necklace that cures Mousse of his love pill induced obsession of her but only as long as he’s wearing it.
·         Hypocritical Humor: Kodachi impressed with the fact that Happosai stopping Sasuke from drugging Kasumi while ignoring that she was the one who ordered him to drug her.
Kodachi: So the Master of Kasumi’s father is the one I have to thank for my sudden nap last evening. Well, in a way I suppose he was just looking out for her interests. After all, there are a lot of dangerously unstable people in the world who would delight in taking advantage of such a delicate flower of innocent ripe maidenhood.
o    The Sumo wrestler who called Akane fat
o    Atsuko saying that Silk doesn’t know her own strength something Ranma was quick to point out.
o    Comb chastises Genma and Soun for constantly playing Shogi only for Silk to mention that she does the same thing with her husband and Chess. Comb’s reply
Comb: Chess is different, it’s a warrior’s game fought with strategy and honor. You can see the value of certain pieces as they weigh against each other for position and advantage. The pieces of this game are all the same worth and all you do is move them around trying to trump each other, like playing a child’s game of leap-frog!
o    Akane calling out Ranma and Nabiki for following Ukyo and Shampoo on their date when she and Ryoga were currently doing the same thing
o    Nabiki Blanched when Kodachi called her father crazy
o    Kodachi calling Kachu crazy Nabiki did a Double Take upon hearing her say that.
==I==
·         I Can Change My Beloved: There was a time when Cologne associated this trope with Happosai before he made the pact with the Demoness Ganglot and became an even more extraordinary perverted individual than he had been to begin with.
o    Averted Kimiko changed a lot when she married Soun, lost much of her anger and sense of isolation precisely because he did not try to contain her or smother her with the expectation that she be a good house wife. It was because of this that she undertook to domesticate herself by learning how to act like a more traditional woman, and to this end she sought the aid of her closest friend, Nodoka.
§  About this same time she contracted cancer and made that arrangement with Peorth. Who fulfilled her training in how to become a perfect Japanese housewife, And passed on the benefits of her training to Kasumi, who proved an even more adept student.
·         I Have Many Names: Challenger has many other names and most often answers to Magnus or the "Admiral".
o    Anri The Lord of Air and Fire, Mahurabsammatrusara...the Man in the Center of the Eye of God, Maitreya... Those are merely titles, pay them no heed, Whether Boddidharma, Sidhartha or even Hermes Trimigestes, he is a man by any name...just more evolved than others. If you were to spend enough time around him you would understand better, and still he would be Anri.
·         I Know Mortal Kombat: Mokoto’s enjoyment of romance anime and manga led to an enjoyable first time for her and Ukyo
·         I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: This why Silk left and also why she never told Soun about Kachu. She felt that it was for the best that they both go their separate ways. Soun was going to marry Kimiko, and she would have just been an obstacle to his continued happiness. There was never any formal declaration between them, so Silk thought to end their relationship on a positive note. It was only after she got back to China that she discovered that she was pregnant, and that simply wasn’t something she could write to him about on a post card.
o    Seeing Lotion the Younger after two years of thinking she was dead Shampoo was glad to see how happy she was and knew she could make Perfume happy as well.
o    Comb’s happiness has always been Hairbrush’s foremost consideration, even bringing up the fact that she was Long-Lived due to her Juraian heritage though she was quick to nip that thought in the bud.
o    AVST-Mousse used this in his Not So Different speech to Ranma they were both in love with woman who wouldn’t give them the time of day and are now just happy that they found happiness with someone.
Mousse: Perfume wasn't mine to claim, and it's taken me this long just to admit it to myself...but does that mean I've stop feeling for her altogether? And what makes you think that I would allow any part of her to fall into the hands of something whose value on life is deplorable even by my standards? As much as I may sometimes resent Kuonji, I am also grateful for her making Perfume so happy...and to you for the same reason...so don't even begin to doubt that I am as committed to this mission as you. I won't let anything happen to Perfume's daughter, even if she's no more a part of me than Lylac is for you, and for exactly the same reason.
·         Identical Stranger: A Template is a back-up image drawn from the main source of divine creation. Every God/Goddess has several earthly Templates that are generated every so often at random, a way in which the system Computer maintains unit integrity of the main source programs. For example Kasumi and Kachu for Belldandy, Silk and Kimiko for Poarth and Ranma and Keiko for Freya.
o    While a backup file copy, like on a floppy disk is an adapt analogy Templates are not exactly copies they are individuals with separate, individual lives. They share things in common, but it is not like they have no independent existence. The System merely projects qualities of the base onto the template as a kind of backup of the base god/godess’s data that Yggdrasil uses to reinforce the integrity of their program. As a template they store a portion of what it means to be the base and thus insure that the base can remain who they am.
·         Idle Rich: Kodachi doesn’t want to be burdened with too many of the details concerning the day-to-day management of her family’s corporate interests. She is quite content to live out the life of an aristocrat, living on a generous stipends that afforded her in the style to which she is accustomed, and enabling her to provide a stable home environment that she could provide to Kasumi.
·         Idiot Houdini: Frost considered Mousse this after realizing that he had completed all of the suicide missions she sent him on to impress her.
·         If It's You, It's Okay: Despite knowing that she really is a girl Ukyo is Makoto’s senpai.
o    Minako’s mutual All Love Is Unrequited with Makoto has evolved into this.
§  Nabiki was pleasantly surprised when she used her ability to read the Akashic Records to see that AVST-Ranma has this with his wife’s cursed form
·         Ignore The Fanservice: When Ranma and Nabiki’s bachelor/bachelorette parties both ended up in a strip club. The ladies quickly noticed how the men seemed to be completely ignoring the stripers. As unknown to them they were more worried about the ninja after them.
·         Implausible Fencing Powers: Nodoka was able to instantly defeat both Comb and Atsuko while at the same time disarming them and shredding their clothing.
Nodoka: I couldn't resist doing that. I trust my point is made. If I had wanted to I could have cut more deeply, but there is no reason to shed either of your blood since neither of your offspring is at fault for the sins of their elders.
·         Improbable Weapon User: Silk uses a long flute that she can wield like a staff
·         Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Lotion the Younger
·         Incredibly Lame Pun: After Akane got splashed with Jusenkyo water Shampoo gave one when explaining what happened to her.
Shampoo: Akane have…problem, she forget to duck, but stupid pig-boy Ryoga with her, so Shampoo think she all right.
·         I Never Said It Was Poison: The fact that Soun knew what the Splitting Cat Hairs was made Nabiki realize that he was displaying more familiarity with Amazon lore and culture than she would have thought likely.
·         In Love with the Mark: Atsuko was sent by her mother to seduce Genma Saotome so that she could give birth to the next Temporal Nexus only to fall in love with him.
·         Ironic Hell: After he attempted to manipulate Ranma and Nabiki into killing each other. Siren force feed Mousse the life time love pearl and sent him to Frost.
·         Insane Troll Logic: It wouldn’t be a Ranma fanfic if Kuno didn’t claim Ranma was an evil fanfic.
o    The insane lengths Akane will go to blame Ranma for things. She blamed Ranma and solely Ranma for her hair getting cut because he was antagonizing Ryoga keep in mind that Ryoga was attempting to kill Ranma for as far as he new waiting 3 days instead of 4 for their duel and this was after Ranma attempted to make amends.
·         Insistent Terminology: Kimiko was in the Home Defense Force not the army
·         Island of Mystery: Pangea are legendary mythical Islands located in the Southern Hemisphere close to Antarctica otherwise known as The Lands that Time Forgot or the Morpheus Project. The island has been divided into three different zones that are each representative of a different zoological climate. The zones are divided by some sort of barrier system erected by an ancient culture to keep the three sectors partitioned off from each other.
o    Lost World: One side of the island has reptilians as the dominant life form with Raptors standing rather near the top of the food chain,
o    Isle of Giant Horrors: Farther down towards the northern end of the island you find the Giganthropedian variety of Monster, not just lizards but insects and other sorts who have been enlarged to truly cyclopean dimensions.
o    Cannibal Clan: On the Western end of the Island the wildlife more represents the mammalian life forms that once roamed abundantly throughout much of the world during the Ice Age era. The Trogs thrive there the same way the Velari do in the Reptile zone.
·         Insufferable Genius: While Ambergris highly intelligent and mature for her age she is also abrasive, conniving, condescending and not a little bit conceited, often acting like she's smarter than everybody else around her.
·         Insult Backfire: Nabiki to Lotion
Nabiki: You know, talking with you is like talking to a wall!
Lotion: Buddha once talked to a wall, and when he arose he was enlightened.
Nabiki: You’re comparing yourself to Buddha?
Lotion: No, merely the wall.
o    Cybelle took being called sick, perverted and twisted as a complement
·         Interspecies Romance: Ami and T'shalkri chief of the Velari
·         Irony: Ganglor locked Cologne and Siren into a Corealis trap the same one she imprisoned her in to invoke this trope.
o    Ranma thinks the Meiji restoration period caused the decline and fall of Japanse civilization even thought one of his past incarnates was detrimental in causing it
o    The original Nabiki realized something was wrong long before the loremaster.
·         It Amused Me: Katsuhitu waited until the moment where Cologne had taken a sip from her tea to tell her that Ryoko was free causing her to promptly spit it out.
o    This is the reason that Comb puts off opening a medical clinic and instead opt to run the restaurant until she and Hairbrush are on more sound financial footing. Since unlike Cologne she came to Japan legally so by keeping the restaurant in her name she is able to blackmail Cologne into the role of a waitress.
Comb: I'll confess that is one of the perks, but she brings in so much business waiting on tables in that cute little outfit I bought for her. And besides, now that she and Siren have finally taken the plunge and settled down...
o    On the way back to Japan with the Jusenkyo water the Amazon Ambergris seemed to delight in making Ukyo squirm with her flirtations, and she was driving Akane to distraction, which was no doubt a part of her intentions.
o    After fixing the Love Pearl situation Siren decided not to give everyone Laser-Guided Amnesia as she decided that the since the pearls only cause a more intensified forms of attraction between parties who may have had an interest in one another to begin with allowing the victims to keep their memories could be the necessary push to get a few such parties together
·         It's All About Me: Mousse thinks only of one thing obtaining Shampoo's hand in marriage. Anything that can be used towards that end is automatically seen as justified. Regardless of whom it might inconvenience.
·         It's All My Fault: Razor blames himself for Cybelle’s Redemption Failure do to a combination of his being a Forgetful Jones and having No Sense of Direction.
o    Ukyo blames herself for Akane and Shampoo getting cursed due to them Taking the Bullet for her.
·         It's Not You, It's Me: When Ranma discovered that his mother was not only alive but was most likely kill him due to his curse he nearly gave this speech to Shampoo and Nabiki luckily a Conveniently Timed Distraction gave him time to calm down.
Ranma: It ain’t you, Nabiki, and it ain’t you either, Shampoo. You ain’t my problem, either of you. You’re both great girls, and it’s been the one good thing in my life that I met the both of you, only how can I ask you to get hooked up with the likes of me? I’m nothing but trouble, a real jinx, and I cause problems to everybody who gets near me. Last night Akane got cursed because that idiot thought Ucchan was me, and then you got double- cursed for the same reason…
Shampoo: Shampoo no blame you for this, Ranma. It Shampoo choice to save Ukyo from curse. Spatula-girl no deserve fate, no even violent Akane.
Ranma: But don’t you see? It’s my fault! I’m the one who Mousse was after! He was trying to douse me with that stupid bucket, only he got you guys instead! It’s like this curse makes me hurt the ones I care about! I can’t go back to face my mother like I am, I can’t ever let her see me like a girl, and instead I gotta lie to her, and all because my Pop was idiot enough to make a Kami-damned promise
==J==
·         Jackass Genie: Downplayed while Ganglot did give Ro-Mano and Julan exactly what they asked for but since she brought them to Japan with no pass ports, no identification, and no concept of the language they had to remain in her employ to survive.
·         Japanese Delinquents: Kennou Hibiki
·         Japanese Mythology: In the beginning of all things when Japan was young and freshly conquered from the Ainu the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu Omikami, her brother, Tsukiyomi, the Moon God, and Susanowa, the Lord of Storms and God of the Seas divided up the world between them, each ruling their separate quarter as an independent fiefdom, subject to the will of the Celestial Overlord, who is enigmatic and mysterious beyond the ways of Gods and Mortals. Then around about the end of the ancient Feudal period, when Japan had been torn apart by generations of war, and the Gods had fought numerous battles against the tribes of the demons, it was decided that everyone and everything would come under the dominion of the triune powers, the Three who would each take turns holding the office of Kami-Sama.
·         Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Years ago Mousse befriended Frost who was very naïve and vulnerable, easily swayed by the kind words he spoke to her, pretending to be interested in her while using her as a stepping stone in his attempt to get closer to Shampoo.
·         Jerkass Façade: AVST Lotion deliberately kept Nabiki at a distance.
·         Justice by Other Legal Means: This seems to be the main goal of Jun Mun Lun in addition to all of the legitimate legal ramifications they can bring down upon Genma for dishonoring the deal between him and Akira and abandoning Ukyo along the side of the road. They threatened to use their client’s resources to destroy Soun financially.
Yu Omi: Our client preserved this letter as proof of your agreement. It is a solemn pledge of honor between gentlemen, but it seems that you were less than truly honorable in your dealings, for while the agreement included our client's Yatai stand as dowry for the hand of his daughter, you clearly preferred the Yatai over honoring your commitment. You abandoned his daughter along the side of the road without thought that you were dishonoring her. These are grave and serious charges, Saotome-san, and if brought to the attention of the police it would go very bad for you. I trust you will not force us to go public with our client's grievances as he is willing to be generous in his terms of settlement. If you do not agree to his terms, however, then my client is prepared to pursue redress through other means, such as to put pressure on your friend, Tendo Soun, to convince him to concede his own claims in the matter...or else.
Genma: Or else...what?
Yu Omi: Saotome-san," Yu Omi's eyes gleamed from behind his glasses. Your friend is not a financially secure individual, having no stable source of income other than the dojo that he is intending to use for dowry in his claims upon your son. Should you both be difficult in not cooperating in this matter, then our client will bring to bear all the resources at his disposal and he will break both of your families like rotten bamboo. You have no idea of the list of potential avenues for reprisal that are legally open to us. Your friend will be rendered destitute and his daughters will be denied a bright and promising future...
·         Just in Time: Nabiki lampshaded the heroes tendency to make a fateful last-minute entrance as she was waiting for Ranma to save her from marrying Kirin.
==K==
·         Kissing Under the Influence: After Ryoga’s brain went into virtual shutdown mode do to Minako’s Clothing Damage the affect of the juice of a Man-Eating Plant caused her to try and wake him up using a Trouser Friendly Kiss.
·         Knight Templar Parent: Akira Kounji became this accepting the fact that he was going to die. First by putting it into his will that she doesn’t marry Ranma the company would be divided up and she would get nothing. However after finding about her curse and making peace with Ranma he sent his firm Mun Jun Lun the Martial Arts Lawyer’s to deal with situation.
==L==
·         Lack of Empathy: According to Nabiki Mousse is simply unable to listen and feel the pain of others.
·         Laser-Guided Amnesia: Ganglot did this to everyone so that they would forget that Shampoo and Ranma were married to Nabiki in order to foil Cybelle’s latest scheme.
o    The Merchant who gave Shampoo "The Reason You Suck" Speech that nearly led to her suicide had no memory of IT after he was rescued from Nabiki’s Rage Breaking Point as Cybelle was manipulating him.
o    Belldandy once traveled through time to meet Keiichi centuries before their first official meeting, and this created a paradox that caused them some trifling difficulties. Belldandy, is an exceptionally bright and obedient young girl, but on this one occasion she did something that she was not supposed to do and used her father's Temporal Mirror to find the one to whom she would one day give her heart. She appeared to the child Keiichi as a young girl his own age and became friends with the boy...all innocent of the consequences, of course. When Susanowa found out he was very angry and ordered her to seal the boy's memories, erasing all trace of her first visitation. It would not be until the modern era that she would see him again, after which time even a Goddess's memories could stray, and she fell in love with the boy after he made a wish that bound them both together.
o    Kuno doesn’t have any memory of his time being controlled by Cybelle and while he has not reverted fully to the ambling poetry-spouting fool neither is he quite himself in other respects.
·         Laser-Guided Karma: Happosai and Hinako’s relationship
o    Akane's curse can be seen as this given her treatment of Ranma
o    Averted as it just ended up turning her into an Angel.
·         Last Episode, New Character: A number of characters such as Ranma’s sister Kaouri Kumon were introduced in the last chapter
·         Last Request: Centuries ago when the Matriarch realized that the string of women using Jusenkyo to gain the strength of men prevented them from getting pregnant made the decree as her last request before committing ritual suicide, that no Amazon should deliberately or by accident allow themselves to be male-cursed on pain of death or exile.
o    This does not apply to women with the curse being adopted into the tribe, of course
·         Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The epilogue was essentially Jim thinking up ideas for a sequel staring Shanma using a tarot reading between Ganglot and Kaoru Ganglot even mentioned how fond she was of fanfiction.
·         LEGO Genetics: Jusenkyo curses either blend together or even canceling each other out which is why Akane was turned into a Winged Humanoid when splashed with water from the Spring of Drowned Girl after Mousse splashed her with water from the Spring of Drowned Duck. It is also why Shampoo transformed into a Winged Cat.
o    The reason this is possible is that most of the Human Aliens races directly concerned with Humanity (or at least within this branch of the Galactic Arm) have a common ancestry due to the influence of the Star Tribes (progenitors to both Gods, Demons and
Angels), which in turn explains why Half-Human Hybrid is possible since two completely separate sentient species evolving independently would logically have as much chance of producing offspring as the mixing of an Ape with a Carrot.
·         Lesser of Two Evils: The reason the Board members didn’t put up much of a fight when Tatewaki took over was that the alternative to accepting him in their midst would be to demand the return of his father.
o    This is why Ro-Mano and Ju-Lan made a Deal with the Devil with Ganglot as she was the better option then going home.
o    This is why Cologne opted for the See You Airline as they needed to avoid having to go through regular customs on this trip, else it might be awkward to explain transporting Jusenkyo water out of the country.
o    Ganglot sending the heroes to Pangea to avoid Cybelle’s latest scheme
·         Like Father, Like Son: Despite what her daughters remember Kimiko was a lot more like Akane then Kasumi in that she was quick to anger and a Cordon Bleugh Chef
o    Like Father, Unlike Son: however unlike Kimiko Akane lacks the patience to make a good student in the kitchen.
Nabiki: So Momma had a lot more patience than Akane, huh?
Lotion: Extraordinarily so, she could never have studied and achieved such high marks in Pilot academy were it not for her having the methodical and even ruthless ability to bone down and study a problem until she had worked it out and had mastered the details. She learned to Cook by following the steps Nodoka taught her as if she were studying up for another one of her Exams.
·         Like Parent, Like Spouse: This is the initial reason Atsuko fell in love with Genma as he reminded her of her half-Oni father, Razor.
·         Lima Syndrome: When the Velari first encountered Professor Challenger because he was Nigh Invulnerable nothing they did could kill him so the held him captive for a number of years debating endlessly over what they should do about him. In that time, he slowly worked to gain their trust and learn their language.
·         Literal Genie: Ganglot when she manipulated Happosai to get revenge against Cologne by making him into the world's most powerful—-if perverted—-martial artist.
Ganglot: That was the nature of the wish I granted him. He wanted to become the world's greatest martial artist, so I had him phrase his wish to become the strongest perverted martial arts master in the world.
·         Logical Weakness: The Fatal Flaw of Daihotsuke and Daikotsukegiant go board is that they can't put a stone down on top of another stone, so all their opponent has to do was run on top of them to get right to them.
o    Me's a Crowd forms an exact clone which is why Anri needed Nabiki to be used as a template as her counterpart had been growing mentally adjusted to the idea of motherhood for five months and needed a model to remind herself of what it used to be like when she was slender and trim.
·         The Loins Sleep Tonight: This is a secondary affect of the Ultimate Weakness Moxibution
·         Loophole Abuse: Averted with Kachu who always tries to use the fact that she is not of the warrior class to get out of the marriage law
o    Cologne put this in the stacks of Ranma and Ryoga’s fight.
Cologne: “Are we clear about what is at stake here? If Ranma loses, then he will agree to submit to me for training in the Amazon ways. Such training will necessitate you coming back with me to China, boy, but I’ll include your iinazuke in the package, so you need not fear for an untimely separation. You will also formally apologize to Ryoga for any and all crimes you may have committed against him.”Ranma: “And if I win?”Cologne: “Then Ryoga will swear to forgo any and all hostilities against you. The rivalry between you will cease and both of you boys will shake on that and part this grove as enemies no more. You may train for a rematch but there will be no more of this incessant hostility and unresolved conflict between you. Agreed?”
·Atsuko taught her son never to strike a lady. Of course if his opponent ain't no lady then he should take the gloves off.
·Poerth ran into this problem when trying to play matchmaker between Ukyo and Akane as Gods aren’t allowed to manipulate the free will of mortals.
o    Averted as it’s less that she trying to find a way around it and a more trying not to get caught.
·Mon-Mon plays this straight when she killed Saladin. It’s technically against the rules for gods to harm a member of a rival sect. However Allah is quite fed up with these fanatics and all the bad publicity that they have been giving him lately.
·This is why Ganglot and Peorth where free to operate when Prince Kirin kidnapped Nabiki because while Nekonron was under the protection and governance of a certain pantheon of gods whose sovereignty could not directly be challenged. The Sky Ship was presently occupied by only one solitary Priestess.
·Ukyo used her engagement to Ranma to try to get him out of the Seppuku contract. Pointing out that Ranma had no knowledge of the agreement or even the fact that she was even a girl so it was wrong to blame him for a deal his father made, a deal he obviously never intended to keep.
·Averted for any agreement Genma made on Ranma’s behalf. After hearing about the Seppuku contract Kasumi pointed out that Ranma wasn’t aware of what he was doing so it shouldn’t be binding on him. Unfortunately the contract had the authority of his father, which makes it binding.
·This is the reason for the engagement by using the dojo as a dowry Soun avoids the confiscatory inheritance laws of Japan that are a legacy of the days when the Shoguns had sought to keep Samurai families from accumulating too much wealth and property.
·         Lovable Sex Maniac: Ai to the point that when her sister Mariko was infected by the love pearl Ai was more repulsed by her forwardness then the act itself.
o    Within the last year Perfume has propositioned many and caught the eye of a few, and she numbers her fair share of conquests among the younger warriors, the ones who are not afraid of her outright.
·         Love It or Hate It: Ranma is this in universe
Ukyo: Just how well known is Ranma in this district?
Nabiki: Opinions are divided, you either like him or hate him,
·         Love Makes You Crazy: Nabiki felt this way at first.
==M==
·         MacGuffin: The tracking device that Washu made for Ayeka that allowed her to find Tenchi when he was kidnapped by Konatsu.
·         Mad Artist: Akuma Zesutoru called him the Alfred Hitchcock of Japan wanted to create a movie adaptation of that much-lauded work by the American author Edgar Rice Burroughs. Convinced that going to Pangea was the only way of achieving his genius he worked his charisma over the Trog’s and transformed their lives into one long waking nightmare, due to his constant demands of perfection. Akuma snapped upon finding out that Tojo studios pulled his funding and order the agents delivering the message gruesome death. Cut off from civilization Akuma just got worse eventually driving everyone mad enough to worship him as a god and carry out his slightest whim. Akuma’s strive for perfection caused him to repeatedly order people to be killed in a gruesome manner just to add to the drama of a scene. All this eventually led to Pai Takura to agree to line out her own VERY REAL death scene by letting herself be boiled alive in a stew pot and then served to the crew to help relieve a meat shortage created by Akuma’s actions.
·         Magic from Technology: Beatrice can work near magic with the tools of science making her just as dangerous as Alison.
·         Magitek: Cybelle’s ultimate goal is to create a hybrid body that has human, demon and cybernetic potential through the adaptation of Juraian and Oni technologies so that she could maintain linkage to her tree while still being able to tap into its vast stores of cosmic energy.
o    Cybelle used the Internet to by-pass the wards Happosai used to imprison her physical body. Essentially she telecommutes an image of herself.
·         Mama Bear: Atsuko when Gosunkuji Hikaru got her son involved in his effort to humiliate Ranma.
o    Mousse cursing Combs daughter for a second time.
Comb: He...WHAT??? I'LL KILL HIM!!! I'LL STRANGLE THAT HALF-BLIND BASTARD WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS FOR THIS, I'LL...
o    Her daughter means the world to Naomi, and if there is any decision to be made regarding the future, it is decided with Rachael's welfare in mind. Naomi wants her daughter to be proud of her some day, just as she was proud of the little girl as her most singular accomplishment in this life. A family is more important to her than Naomi would have ever previously considered.
·         Manchild: The huge Buddha-like Garuda became this upon seeing Jasmine.
o    This is do to the fact that do to his training he has never experience true puberty and effectively remains quite child-like.
·         Marshmallow Hell: Ganglot to her son Razor after Lotion broke the memory curse on him allowing him to recognize her.
Ryomi: Geez, don't kill the guy, Grandma
·         Martial Arts and Crafts: It wouldn’t be a Ranma fanfic if this trope didn’t come into play.
o    First there is Jun Mun Lun & Associates is a combination legal firm and dojo established to hire young graduates who are desperate enough join. The Temps and Gofers learn to break boards with their legal briefs, and battle with briefcases, staple-guns, rulers, pointers, clipboards, pens and various other tools of any office profession. The cafeteria staff train in sumo, the janitor’s mop with the tassels of a spear. These aren't your normal nine-to-five, twenty-thousand yen an hour type lawyers. These guys are vicious professionals who operate something more like a branch of the Yakuza.
o    There is also Anything Goes House Cleaning a martial arts system designed to show the strength and power of a Japanese Housewife.
o    Kitchen Kung Fu is a martial arts style once practiced by the Monks of Shaolin in ancient times when food was plentiful and the favors of the Emperor were courted.
·         The Masochism Tango: This is why the Original Ranma and Akane wouldn’t work out as a couple. They're just not right for each other, bad chemistry, incompatible personalities, too many of the same vices and not enough shared virtues.
·         Maternal Death? Blame the Child: Ukyo feels this way do to the way Akira always looks at her.
·         May Contain Evil: Cybelle created a diabolically crafted spell interwoven within the text of a nominal HTML format. Kind of like a mental virus, or a worm that tries to burrow in disguised as something innocuous, that brainwashed all that read it into thinking that the Tendo and Saotome clan were all complete monsters.
·         Meaningful Name: Ro-Mano and Ju-Lan
o    Tyrannosaurus Rex, means “Terrible Lizard.” Appropriate enough considering that it was trying to do terrible things to Ranma, Nabiki, and Shampoo.
o    Genma's name suits him, because like a Dark Horse he has a tendency of once in a while surprising you and confounding expectations. Ranma may be the "Wild Horse" in his family, but there's no mistaking that the two of them are cut from the same cloth on some levels.
·         Meddling Parents: Peorth keeps trying to interfere in Akane’s relationship with Ukyo
·         Men Act, Women Are: This is the reason Mousse gaining Shampoo’s affection was always doomed to fail, he doesn’t seem to grasp that all his efforts to impress her just come across as insulting.
Frost: You really are pathetic, Mousse, Going out on a limb just to impress a girl? Ridiculous! What do you think, that we're all fragile, helpless weak ninnies who need a man to come and rescue us from peril? We're Amazons! We look out for ourselves! No wonder Shampoo never respected you if you treated her like an invalid who needed your protection!
·         Men Can't Keep House: Inverted Comb couldn't keep house if her life depended on it.
Silk: If it weren't for your husband you'd have drowned in your own…
·         Mental Time Travel: Played with the art of Astral Timetravel. The power of the mind to project itself through the Astral stream from one point to another is a facet of the plane's essential LACK of time and continuity.
·         The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: It is really odd how different Hinako acts in each of her two forms, the adult Hinako is suave, sensual, sophisticated and vampish. The child Hinako-by stunning contrast-is anything BUT suave and sophisticated, manifesting a quite immature and energetic bravado that suited her physical development but is not at all in keeping with one's expectations of appropriate conduct for a teacher. She veers off the subject frequently, often got into anecdotal reflections that seem odd for her seeming age, then would ask some pointless question of a random student to test their knowledge of the subject and give them a "Big-Eyed" congratulatory stare if they said anything that might earn her strong approval.
·         Misplaced Retribution: Nabiki commented on this when Konatsu came after them after Happosai blew up the Red Hot Tea House Kunoichi. Wondering why no one ever went after Happosai.
o    The first people Akane was mad at upon finding Ryoga’s deception was Ranma, Nabiki and Shampoo
·         Missing Mom / Disappeared Dad: Kennou Hibiki’s mother died when she was young and her father is Razor Hibiki
·         Monstrous Humanoid: Instead of curing him pouring a bottles of Nyanniichuan water on himself resulted in Ryoga turning into a Half-Human Hybrid. Needless to say the combination of man and pig isn’t pretty.
·         Morality Chain: Hinako is this to Happosai.
·         Moral Myopia: Happosai was going to give Cologne back the love pearl bracelet as a gesture of good faith however he snatched it a away seeing how important it was to her then called her out for not telling him it was magic.
o    The moment Frost fixed Mousse’s Heel–Face Brainwashing Mousse sought revenge on Siren for messing with his head, playing with his and Frost’s lives, and ignoring their wishes. Keep in mind that she only did this after he tried to use Jusenkyo and the Nekoken to get Ranma to kill Nabiki so that he could force Shampoo to marry him.
·         More Than Mind Control: Shampoo was afraid of this when Cybelle put a spell on her that nearly caused her to kill herself. She didn’t believe that any spell could undermine her certainty of the rightness of her being with Ranma and Nabiki. So was afraid that it found its root seed somewhere in her mind, some doubt or uncertainty that she had not been aware of until now.
·         Mr. Fanservice: Terry Bogard if Naomi’s reaction is anything to go by.
·         Mugged for Disguise: Mousse did this to a waiter on Shampoo’s and Ukyo’s date
·         Mugging the Monster: The Unnamed Barkeep who tried to sell Razor into slavery that he had woefully underestimated the caliber of this particular "raw talent."
·         Mundane Utility: The one eternal problem facing nearly all Immortal beings is boredom. Which is why to the Gods there was no more sacred place, no more revered and hallowed area than the bright and shining realm of Gladsheim hat neutral space surrounding the Cross-Dimensional Portal, which served in lieu of a mortal TV (the wide-screen HTDV
Holographic edition, that is).
·         Murder the Hypotenuse: Ryoga almost committed this after discovering the Shi Shi Hokodan
o    Death is the only way to get out of an Amazonian marriage after it has been consummated.
·         My Beloved Smother: Cologne firmly believes that she and she alone knows what is right for her clan even if her actions cause severe emotional home. He actions include forcing Comb to give up her first born child to become a doctor. Not allowing Shampoo to have any friends outside of Perfume and the one friend she had Ambergris. She convinced Shampoo that she was using her and would ultimately betray her. While she didn’t orcanstrate the attack on Lotion the Younger she did lead Shampoo and Perfume to believe that she was dead.
Cologne: There...is some slight truth in that, child. We all make mistakes in judgement, some of a more serious nature than others, and often with the best of intentions. Given all of that, can you blame me for acting in what I thought was Shampoo's best interests?
·         My God, What Have I Done?: Fearing about how close she had gotten with Ranma Nabiki attempted to sabotage their relationship by selling pictured of his female form causing her to immediately invoke this trope. Luckily Ranma is not the type to hold grudges and immediately forgave her.
Nabiki: The problem with Ranma is that he tends to see the good in people, like Kasumi. It’s a basic part of his nature, and though I had seen ample evidence of this in the past, until that moment I had failed to believe it. I was guilty of a crime all right, the crime of taking his feelings for granted. Now he was showing me a courtesy such as I rarely extended to others and it made me feel…unworthy of him in some fundamental way, as though Kodachi’s accusation had been right on target the whole time.
·         My Greatest Failure: Happosai felt extremely guilty for his failure to remain faithful to Cologne as it made her the woman she was today.
o    Yosho regrets not being more of a father to his child blaming himself for the fact that three of them died in battle with him not there.
o    Comb allowing Cologne to force her into agreeing to have Shampoo take her place as her heir.
·         My Significance Sense Is Tingling: When canon and ATOTW Nabiki switched places Lotion was instantly able to feel it.
o    As a Demon Hunter Kachu is able to sense Cybele presence
·         Mysterious Parent: Played with Peorth was Kimiko’s template which is why Nabiki initially thought she was her mother.
o    Played straight in that Peorth once granted Kimiko a wish to stay alive long enough to give birth to Akane. Granting that wish involved Kimiko being a Willing Channeler
·         Mystical Pregnancy: Due to a certain meddlesome Oni Princess who thought it would be a hilarious lark to plant a seed for the future that she foresaw coming this trope happened to Nabiki, Kodachi, Kasumi, and Kachu.
·         My Way or the Highway: This is Mamoru’s problem with the Relationship Upgrade between him Usagi and Rei. While he feels lucky to get such a great Two-For-One offer he doesn’t like that they offered it up to him like it was an ultimatum.
==N==
·         Naginatas Are Feminine: Ambergris's preferred weapon is a Japanese Naginata, a weapon she claims she adapted to her longer reach.
·         Named After Somebody Famous: Ju-Lan and Ro-Mano
o    Taking this trope even further as the come from similar circumstances as their namesakes. Though fortunately they received a happier ending.
·         Name's the Same: The original homeroom teacher and the principle
o    Romeo and Julian two Star-Crossed Lovers of the Amazons.
·         Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Even Cologne is wary of Washu’s penitent for studying members of the Juraian royal house.
·         Nanomachines: Beatrice has the advantage of exposure to super-advanced off-world technology, not the least example of which are the Nanites that are crawling around like ants within her bloodstream, giving her perfect health and an ability to regenerate damage.
·         Never a Self-Made Woman: Averted Naomi and her ex-husband Rick young with no idea of all the...complications it would cause in both their lives. She managed to work her way through college and even graduated at the top of her class before having Rachael, but then had to deal with the hassles of finding a competent day care service, and Rick not doing enough to help carry his half of the weight. She eventually left him when he started to grow jealous when his career failed to take off like hers.
·         Never My Fault: Happosai’s reprehensible conduct and generally selfish behavior, is something to be justified on the grounds of his insecurity. In his mind he is neither a villain nor a victim but simply a man who does what he needs to do in order to satisfy his baser appetites.
Ganglot: There is a man whom I know who is a determined liar, who has used deceit and deception as a tool to avoid the truth at every point of his long and colorful existence. The truth about him is that he cannot face the truth about himself without experiencing a severe loss in self-confidence and respect. He fears the truth and attempts to smother it under layers of self-delusion, acting as an impulsive and thoughtless being who does what he likes and seeks never to face the consequences of his actions.
o    Nabiki called the original Ranma out for this pointing out that while Shampoo could have averted being a Sore Loser and not given him the Kiss of Death. She’s the great granddaughter of the Matriarch, and by humiliating her Ranma wounded her pride. Pride that made her chase Ranma all the way to Japan, and pride that keeps her in Nerima, the pride of a Warrior who won't admit defeat, regardless of whether or not he had already rejected her in favor of Akane.
o    Akane has very Entitled to Have You mentality with Ukyo. To the point she gave her a What the Hell, Hero? when she clearly started showing affection for Makoto.
Akane: Don't you dare say we can always be 'just friends!' And after the way you've been leading me on...I even broke up with Ryoga on account of you! Doesn't that mean anything? Don't I deserve at least a little consideration?
o    Ukyo eventually called Ryoga out on constantly blaming Ranma for everything.
Ryoga: Well…I don’t blame his father for Ranma’s crimes against me. Stealing bread when we were kids was one thing, skipping out on a man-to-man promise was another…
Ukyo: Are you still onto that? Why not take some responsibility of your own for getting lost those four days it took you to find an open lot behind your own house? Even you’ve got to admit that it’s a little odd being that directionless, Sugar.
o    Genma as well
Genma: This is all the fault of the boy...if only he had been more careful...
·         New Powers as the Plot Demands: The many abilities of the Hibiki clan can come off as this such as their ability to pick up languages out of nowhere
·         Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Ganglot had Cybelle foxed on several levels, not least being her inability to locate her lair...until she was clued in by one who hated her Mother-in-law far more even than she does. By reading Cologne’s thoughts Cybelle got a clear mental picture of where Ganglot was.
o    Cybelle hypnotized Ryoga causing him to destroy Ganglot’s capstone sending her back to Niflheim.
§  Averted as Ganglot set up a decoy capstone to trick Cybelle.
o    Cologne rejecting Happosai, him losing the good graces of his only protector it was the loss of his one chance to be redeemed. After that he went on to a life of perversity far greater than merely stealing the treasures of the Amazons and leaving Cologne embittered and heartbroken.
o    Poerth studied the various potential directions of the timeline in an effort help Akane. This not only re-established the original timeline, but caused Nabiki and her counterpart from that timeline to trade places
·         The Nicknamer: Shampoo
Shampoo: Ukyo…I call her that here instead of “Spatula Girl,” an affectionate nickname that I have adopted to describe this one
·         No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Makoto is no stranger to instant and ephemeral infatuations. She has a roving eye for the male sex and is always quick to spot the cute guy in any crowd. She is second only to her good friend Minako in her ability to flirt, but unlike the blonde dynamo, who could justly be compared with the Goddess Venus, Makoto has much less success in her flirting, being the awkward and ungainly Tomboy among her close-knit circle of inner Senshi. She tends to frighten most boys away by coming on a bit to aggressively, whereas Minako tends to drive the boys away by acting flighty.
o    Kuno likes to be the aggressor in the relationship so was put off by Shampoo tryuing to court him.
o    Nabiki also theorized that he’s actually very shy and only chases after women he knows will refuse him.
·         No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Akiko delivered on of these to Engineer Phillips for insulting her behind her back.
·         No Guy Wants an Amazon: While Mousse does love Shampoo his efforts to impress her just come across as insulting and shows that he doesn’t have much respect for her or her ideals.
Mousse: But...I never meant to imply that! I wanted Shampoo to know that I cared about her, that she could count on me to...to...to...er...
Frost: Now do you see what I mean? You insulted her, and not just with that thing about confusing her with a pig when you were four years old either! So how do you think I feel about being treated like a pampered princess? You don't really respect me, and you sure didn't respect either Shampoo or her feelings!
o    The fact that he completely ignores the laws she was raised by doesn’t help either. Such as not wanting to challenger her because he doesn’t want to see her hurt
Mousse: Because...because she's confused...the Law got her mixed up...her losing to Saotome...and then later deciding to hook herself up with that Nabiki...
Frost: The law may not be perfect but it's been the traditional guideline for our people for hundreds of generations, and you know how much Shampoo sets by what she was raised to believe in by the Matriarch, her Elder. So again I ask...how was trying to kill her Airen and steal her away from them supposed to be respectful?
o    All in all Mousse wants Shampoo not an Amazon
o    Averted with most of the other male characters
·         Non-Idle Rich: Cologne is the bearer of many treasures that have been a part of her family for many generations, some of them gifts from Emperors and nobles from many past dynasties that once ruled China. In spite of Joketsuzoku’s reputation as a poor village her family is considered well off when compared to others, and though they do not publicly flaunt their wealth in their nominally “Socialist” society, they have never really done without or known true hardship, at least within Shampoo’s generation.
·         Noodle Incident: Be-Dea once stole a man from Cologne years ago.
o    How Siren got Cologne in a Relationship Upgrade something about Cologne losing a bet, or Siren saving her life.
o    Ryoga knew what a hangover felt like on account of that "unfortunate incident" that had befallen him during one of his wandering adventures.
o    Due to their directional problems the hibiki clan are full of these
o    The reason Cherry is so scared of Lotion.
·         nosell: Kirin easily met and countered each of Ranma’s strikes , repulsing them with ease before knocking Ranma back.
o    When Ganglot altered everyone’s memory of Nabiki Mon-Mon wasn’t affected
·         Not in Kansas Anymore: This was the original Nabiki’s reaction when she ended up in this universe.
·         Not So Different: AVST Mousse and Ranma are this. As the former pointed out when they were rescuing their children from Shang-Kwon
Ranma: And what the heck do you mean you see a lot of yourself in me? We're nothing alike!
Mousse: There you are wrong. We both know what it is like to feel drawn to a woman who spurns our desires. In my case, obviously, that was Perfume, but in your case it was the woman named Kodachi who treated you as if your infatuation with her made you worth little more than dirt. Of course we've both since turned our affections to someone who returns them with due interest, but that doesn't mean that I've completely forgotten how obsessed I was over Perfume, and how enraged I was on the day when Ukyo took her from me.
o    Combined with For Want of a Nail when much to her surprise Lotion pointed out the similarities between her and Ranma and Happosai and Cologne. Telling her that Happosai could have been the greatest of Lore Masters, but he failed the test of character and his gift was wasted. Telling Nabiki that she could end up in his place while Ranma could end up in Cologne’s. when Nabiki protested this she reminded her of what she was like before she met Ranma.
o    The majority of the Alterverse stories stress that this a major problem with Akane and Ranma's relationship.
·         Not So Harm Less Villain: Mousse came extremely close to manipulating Ranma into killing Nabiki
·         Not What It Looks Like: This happened when Nabiki caught Shampoo naked in Ranma’s bed.
o    Averted with Nabiki who knows Ranma enough to know he wouldn't sleep around when she found shampoo in his bed
o    Played straight when Atsuko informed Nodoka that Genma was Ryoga’s father as Genma quickly realized he had no way of explaining himself. Luckily Atsuko could
o    Ukyo said this word for word when Akane suddenly kissed her seconds before Makoto entered the room.
==O==
·         Obfuscating Stupidity: Cologne mentioned how her father likes to play up being doddering and senile. At this point it’s probably either more out of habit or it amuses him as he even does it with people who know it utter bull.
o    Lylac, Ekko and Frangrance preferred to have there parents think they were just regular babies never showing just how intelligent they really are.
·         The Obi-Wan: Elder Lotion to Nabiki
·         Oblivious Guilt Slinging: Before The Reveal when Nodoka met Ryoga she commented on how much he looks like Ranma to the point where they could be brothers.
·         Obnoxious In-Laws: Cologne didn’t like the fact that her brother Rogaine married the demoness Ganglot going so far as to blame her for his death.
Ryoma: Was it because you're an Oni that she blamed you for that?
Ganglot: That and the fact that I doubt any woman would have matched Cologne's high standards in those days,
o    Hild if her conversation with Cybelle is anything to go by
Hild: Particularly since Urd herself has been affected…and by that useless Mraller of all the possible tools whom I might expect to give me a grandchild…
·         Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The plot of Daughter of Darkness happened while Cologne was hiding out at her father’s from Siren.
·         Oh, Crap!: Cologne’s reaction when Siren told her they were going to be together weather she liked it or not
o    Cologne’s reaction when Siren suddenly popped into the Juraian furo.
o    This was canon Nabiki’s reaction upon waking up in bed with Ranma and Shampoo.
o    Tofu was out with Kachu trying to keep his composure only for Kasumi to show up
o    When Shampoo came back and ambushed Nabiki telling her that she was working with her Great Grandmother, the Elder
o    When Lotion first showed up Genma and Soun both reacted as if someone had just threatened them with a handgun.
o    When Akane told Genma there was a lawyer at the door to see him she was amazed at how fast the fat man moved suddenly, going from a lotus position to a full run in under two full seconds.
o    Anything dealing with Nodoka is this for Genma
o    Three of the Jun Mun Lun & Associates had this reaction after witnessing Atsuko’s Super Strength
o    Thinking they were almost home the Senshi looked over the blimps railing only to realize that they weren’t looking at seagulls but Pterodactyls
o    Ukyo and Makoto’s Interrupted Intimacy through being Eaten Alive
·         Older Is Better: Among the Amazons age defines a person. It is easy to command respect from your peers when you have the wrinkles to show for it. Which is why Cologne hides her real age as it’s not so easy to hold their respect when you look no older than a youth.
·         Older Than They Look: Happosai in his cursed form and Colognes original form.
o    The first this D'Amour did upon confirming that Razor was Akiko’s grandfather was complimenting his plastic surgeon.
Lotion: Well, for three hundred and two years old you are in remarkably good shape, dear fellow. A touch on the care-worn side, some old scars that never properly healed, and of course your Battle God tattoos, but other than this you don't look a day over thirty."
o    Cologne’s true form
·         Omniglot: Hibiki’s have the ability to instantly learn other languages.
·         One-Man Army: Alison, aka "A-ko" Managi, is a living powerhouse who is a thousand times as strong as the rest of the characters put together. While her training in the martial arts is none too shabby (her mother being an Amazon from a branch of the line that was even more ancient than the one in China) she also has powers and abilities yet to be fully explored and tested. Many an army has learned the hard way not to underestimate her, and not just on our planet but among the stars, where her name is already a legend.
·         One Curse Limit: Averted the curses all draw from the same source, and so they sometimes can blend together, or even cancel each other out.
o    Averted Razor has about as many curses laid upon him as there are islands about Japan. He seems to have acquired them like travel stickers from the many places he has visited in his wandering career.
·         One Of Us: Since she was a little girl Naomi had dreamed of being an astronaut, or being a member of "The Federation" (though these days she was a bit reluctant to admit to ever having been a "Trekkie"), or being Captain Janeway and commanding her own starship (she could really identify with the part about being lost in the "Delta Quadrant").
·         O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After finding out that Cologne not only knew about Lotion the Younger’s survival but kept it from her Perfume despite her lifelong discipline and subservience to the authority of an Elder heatedly yelled at Cologne before running off.
o    In addition to waking up in bed with him in the first place, the fact that he was so casual about not only her presence but Shampoo’s as well, but also in her own words had been house trained was the first clue to Nabiki that something was wrong.
o    During Ling Ling and Lung Lung’s first day of school Kuno not only apologized to Ranma for his pass actions causing him, Nabiki and Shampoo to stare in disbelief, as well as turn down the twins advances.
o    Had anyone from her village chanced to see the fearsome Devil Hunter doing anything so common as to bring home victuals for her husband it would have started quite a scandal, but Kachu was happy to do the shopping for their household needs, provided her husband was the one who did the actual cooking.
o    When Shampoo met Nodoka despite being happy that Ranma’s mother accepted her as his wife seeing Kasumi’s worried expression and especially her mother and Silk with pleasant smiles in their greetings made her know something was amiss.
·         Opposites Attract: Junko Nanamiya took a lot after her father Happsai while her eventual husband Shiryo Saotome was a man of ancient Samurai stock and a firm believer in the old traditions of Bushido.
Lotion: Talk about mixed marriages
o    A-ko and B-ko are exact opposites in a great many senses. However it is easy to see the reasons for their attraction. Each has qualities the other lacked, and both are stronger when united with the other than they are as separate entities.
·         Opposites Attract: Doctor Tofu’s relentless niceness is what allowed him to defeat Kachu. He doesn’t put out an aggressive battle aura like a Warrior or a Demon, and so there was nothing for her anger to latch onto, he was all but invisible to her senses. She might as well have been attacking a deva for all the good her reflexes would do her for she was facing a man who is almost her opposite in nature, and in this case the meeting of opposites is more than a little attractive.
·         Our Angels Are Different: Most Angels are the emissaries of divine presence who attend to Goddesses like lesser acolytes but have no real free will, being merely manifestations of their conscious projection. There are a few Angels who rise to a higher calling and become lesser manifestations of the Gods themselves, and a few of these become Elemental Lords who can be invoked where needed. The thing to keep in mind is that they are not entirely benevolent and are often creature of wild passion or purposeful nature.
o    There is also the spirits of the departed, who have the status of lesser Angels. The Dead often walk side-by-side with the living but are rarely seen by us. They differ from true Angels in that they freely come and go as they will, not subject to the direct control of the Kami themselves. In time they reincarnate in physical bodies and renew the cycle of Karma, unless they are of such a degraded nature that their souls do not rise to a higher level.
·         Our Gargoyles Rock: A group of these guard Shan Kwan’s castle
==P==
·         Papa Wolf: When Happosai tried to back out of helping rescue Nabiki, Shampoo, and Akane from Prince Kirin Soun loomed up with his most demon-headed expression, which even Happosai found a little intimidating.
o    As Ace of Spades quickly discovered you do not hurt Atsuko
·         Parental Hypocrisy: Soun and Kimiko’s marriage was arranged and Soun was initially against it even trying to use how two didn’t even know each as an argument. Nabiki was happy to watch the old hypocrite dig himself deeper.
·         Parents as People: Nabiki was not happy to find out that her father had had relations with a woman who looks like her late mother, and the result was a Chinese Amazon who was like a walking PMS case ready to explode on anyone who even slightly irritated her.
·         Police are Useless: The police in Nerima are somewhat lax in enforcing the laws. Naomi was surprised that there were no repercussions to the Gambler King openly running a gaming hall in the middle of a residential district
·         Poor Communication Kills: When Ranma attempted to officially propose to both Nabiki and Shampoo a combination of his nervousness and having No Social Skills caused him to say generic lines that made Nabiki think that he was breaking up with them.
Ranma: It's important, okay? I...I've been doing a lot of thinking...
Nabiki: What?
Ranma: Look... You two are the best, and you've been swell to me all this time, and I...I gotta say something...and it ain't easy...
Nabiki: No... I-I don't want to hear this...
Ranma: Huh? What are you talking about?
·         Pot Calling The Kettle Black: Hinako Ninomiya a woman with Duel Age Modes thanks to pressure point manipulation from Happosai instantly pounces on Cologne for not being in school. Both scoff at the fact that someone so young would talk to them with such disrespect
o    As noted by Shirokuro Kennou will cruelly taunt Ryoga over his infatuation with Akane yet crumble like a brittle piece of porcelain the moment someone punctured through the balloon of her own pretensions.
·         Power Incontinence: Cybelle causes Nabiki to go through this by manipulating a pregnant Shampoo to merely commit suicide.
·         The Power of Hate: Deconstructed by Lotion after Ranma defeated Ryoga. She pointed out that utilizing this trope is Awesome, but Impractical since it can only take you so far.
Lotion: Your apprentice was a formidable weapon to use in your designs, but his flaw is that he has not yet learned to deal with his pain more constructively than merely venting it as anger. Once he learns to see beyond himself he will become the warrior he was born to become, but until then he is but a child stumbling in the darkness. I trust you will not abandon him now merely because he has failed you.
o    This is the basis of anything goes training. Ranma’s entire early training in War Craft consisted of learning to bait and react to verbal insults that he and his father would exchange at one another, purposefully learning to make an enemy so angry that they would become careless in a battle. Ranma's father trained him to react to verbal attacks with snappy comebacks and a full fledged fighting spirit. Anger was the key to his early development, the means by which he learned to draw upon his innermost resources, to disregard pain and exhaustion, to be shamed and humiliated into fighting back with the full force of his ego.
o    This is the reason he had such a hard time mastering the Soul of Ice technique.
·         The Power of Love: Deconstructed by Ryoga not only eating Akane’s cooking but forcing a smile and tell her it was delicious. Cologne was amazed and appalled upon witnessing such a truly astonishing display of mind over matter thinking to herself that this trope was appalling in the way it made one behave with such reckless foolishness.
o    This is why Akane didn’t grind Ryoga into pork sausage when she found out about P-Chan.
Lotion: You underestimate the power of love, child. It can make even the hardened heart of a young girl determined to live alone feel the pull to life in all its rich boundaries. I thought you might understand this if you but take
·         Power Perversion Potential: Upon learning about the Nekoken though rightfully angry at Genma Kodachi wondered if it applied to the full range of Ranma’s instincts. Nabiki was initially annoyed at her line of reasoning, but then remembered how Ranma nuzzled me.
o    After Comb gave Ranma The Talk, which had included a detailed medical description of some very particular aspects to sexuality for which he had previously been quite ignorant (even blessedly so, he privately gauged). Such knowledge had ironically served him well when it came time to actually have sex with both of his iinazuke as it allowed Ranma to adapt his considerable knowledge of pressure-point techniques to aims other than martial competition. Treating sex as a form of discipline had helped him keep his calm when otherwise his mind might have gone into short-circuit mode from simply having to perform in such an adult manner around two very eager and demanding young women. That he would emerge triumphant was (of course) only to be expected, but victory in this arena proved to have consequences far more pleasant than the normal satisfaction he might feel upon beating up a new opponent!
o    Tofu’s knowledge of anatomy and pressure-point techniques came to his assistance when it came time to stimulate Kachu in the ways of wanton physical pleasure, and she in turn discovered new ways of using her own complex school of spiritual training to return the favor with interest. It had been a learning experience for them both, but in the end they had achieved a kind of spiritual, physical, mental and emotional gestalt that wound up transporting them both to the realm of Nirvana.
·         Powers as Programs: Kachu is able to do this with Kasumi using Wonder Twin Powers
·         Power Source: Ganglot’s Stone act both as her link to Yggdrasil as well a means to remain upon the earthly plane.
·         Powers Do the Fighting: AVST Mousse warned Ranma against relying so much on his elementals. However since they were fighting Gargoyles at the time he quickly realized that this was bad advice
·         Promotion To Parent: This happened to Kasumi after Kimiko’s death. She had held Nabiki many times when they were very little, and still would do it with Akane as her youngest sister's pretence of strength would give way in uncertain moments to the little girl she was behind the façade of the tomboy. Those had been maternal moments when Kasumi had been assuming the role of their late, beloved mother. In some ways Kasumi had been forced to be strong in the place of their father as well.
·         Properly Paranoid: Contrary to popular belief Nabiki doesn’t look forward to everything that has the word “free” attached to it. In her experience no one gives anything away for free, there’s always something they want in return, or a hidden price tag to balance out the transaction.
·         Psycho Serum: After finding out about Shampoo Kodachi gave her brother a refined version of her extracts that bolstered his confidence and fighting ability for several hours allowing him to take out her out.
o    Averted as Kodachi also secretly drugged Shampoo slowing her down enough for Kuno to get the upper hand.
o    The drug Kodachi created using an extract of the juice derived from the Black Roses while it was made to help her and her family deal with the stress of her mother’s suicide. Unfortunately it also goes the Kuno families known psychosis.
o    The Hitokiri seed is a sinister device that gives its host a boost in speed, strength and power to almost legendary “Manslayer” potential.
·         Put on a Bus: Godai Kuno was committed by his son.
·         Pyramid Power: A pyramid is a geometrical shape that incorporates many rather interesting occult features that are of use in ceremonial magic.
o    The one in the Quoin Hi province was built to summon Ganglot into this plane. Which is why it was constructed along exact geomagnetic coordinates that allow it to tap into the Lie Lines of force that encircle the planet.
·         Pyrrhic Victory: Cologne agreeing to take Ambergris’s words under advisement as well as bidding her good fortune in her efforts at becoming Cologne’s replacement. If she cannot return home, then at least she can send Ambergris to her fellow Elders with a message excusing her prolonged absence.
o    Nabiki gave Kirin her word that she would no longer resist marrying him while Shampoo allowed that she would do whatever Nabiki told her. However she did get some satisfaction from tossing the thirty jars of pickles into the ocean as it had to have
hurt the Prince and his people where they lived, and because of her and Shampooefforts the Nekoron were forced to rely on their emergency rations
==R==
·         Rant-Inducing Slight: Ami eventually had one as a result of Unresolved Sexual Tension do to the antics of Usagi and Rei after their Relationship Upgrade.
·         Rage Breaking Point: After the day she had, finding Dr Tofu in bed with Kachu, getting hit on by Kodachi, finding out Ryoga was Genmas son was the last straw for Kasumi causing her to turn the hose on everyone and storm off.
o    Lotion also mentioned that the separation of emotions between her and Kachu had stopped meaning that she is taking on some of the aspects of her twin.
·         Real After All: Many novels are just the Authors writing down their experience. For example the near mythical Islands known to legend as Pangea otherwise known as The Land That Time Forgot visited long ago by a fellow named Arthur Conan Doyle
·         Reality Ensues: Those in the Qing Hi province have endured the overlordship of the Beijing government out of political necessity, but they rule in name only. The Communists have attempted many times to dictate policies in the region, and for the most part the Amazons have largely resisted and maintained yet old traditions. However Elder Lotion is sure that one day it is certain that there will be trouble between them and some of the local Commissars.
o    The scribbling of a six year old would not be considered legitimate and the whole thing could have been tied up in court for years without a clear resolution. Unfortunately Soun bungled it by challenging the King himself and losing nearly all the rest of his property.
o    This is a running theme in Altered Destinies fanfics such as the fact that there are consequences for the amazon who fails to uphold the kiss of death marriage law.
o    By the time Ranma went back to the cat pit after coming to in the Nekohanten the animal control people had come and left with all of the cats Mousse had trapped there, and there was no sign of the ring boxes he wanted to give to Shampoo and Nabiki.
o    After Nabiki was kidnapped by Kirin Ranma doggedly pursued her without rest. After he defeated Kirin he ended up having a Post-Victory Collapse and sleeping for a day and a half.
o    In universe ATOTW-Nabiki felt that AVST-Nabiki getting Shampoo pregnant was this. After all, Ranma was largely ignorant of matters sexual and had been female when he and Shampoo had their first dramatic encounter. A male her, still new to the transformation, would have been a ripe prize for an Amazon to seize for a husband, and given what their marriage rituals her other self wouldn’t be all that much on her guard when the Elders slipped her a certain potion that was intended to "ease the transition into marriage."
·         Reality Warper: Ganglot after she learned how to tap into Yggdrasil
·         Really 700 Years Old: Ganglot is thousands of years old
·         Real Men Wear Pink: Kokaku was surprise to find that Ranma had written a journal as well.
·         Reasonable Authority Figure: While it took actually defeating him Kirin was willing to forgo centuries of traditions and not marry Nabiki. Especially after seeing Lychee risk her life to rescue the two scrolls.
o    Turns out Cologne is this as Ro-Mano and Ju-Lan wouldn’t have had to run away if she was there.
§  Averted with the current leader, Be Dea
·         "The Reason You Suck" Speech: A hypnotized Merchant gave a particularly brutal one to a pregnant Shampoo
Merchant: I'll tell you what cause I have to object to your just being here in my store! Because you're walking pollution, you contaminate everything you touch! You're worse than Burakuman or Ainu, you Chinese harridan! Sleeping with our youth, foisting your halfbreed seed on a once-noble family like the Tendos, living immorally with the husband of a daughter to that house, even tempting his wife into your lustful embraces, bringing shame and dishonor to both families! And that's just the beginning to the list of crimes that you've willfully committed!
Shampoo: What crimes? Why do you find shame in this one's actions?
Merchant: "You even have to ask such a thing? You have even dragged your whole disgusting family into your dishonor, bringing chaos to the whole of Nerima, and you have the gall to ask why? After the havoc and destruction you and your ilk have inflicted upon the entire district?"
Shampoo: You hold this one responsible for that? Why not give blame to the ones who attack this one and her Airen? This one has always done what she felt was best for his family and others...
Merchant: You can't have feelings. It's not possible for anyone to act so carelessly and thoughtlessly towards the people around her and to still be capable of feeling. You care about nothing but your own selfish needs and your carnal desires. You call that the product of your feelings, you filthy whore? What kind of abomination are you gestating in that belly of yours? You think it will even be human? Not with your genes it won't, and when it comes it will signify the utter bankruptcy of your entire clan! You should do away with it before it arrives, or else it will be living proof of the shame that you have brought upon those who you claim to care for!
Shampoo: Why are you saying this? Why would you hate this one's baby? Why would you say that she is an abomination?
Merchant: Baby? Unclean harbinger of filth! That baby you cling to is proof of everything that I've been saying...about you, about the Tendos, and most of all about Saotome!
Shampoo: Why? What about this one's husband?
Merchant: Husband? He's the husband of Tendo Nabiki, now Saotome Nabiki according to the legal records. He's not your husband, not unless the three of you are breaking the law and living in sin together, which would be a scandal of immeasurable proportions! You don't have any right to claim him for a husband, and if you do then you are dragging his name through the mud and declaring Saotome Ranma to be nothing better than a philandering pig, a cuckolding bigamist who takes two women for his brides when he's entitled to having only one of you, which is all any real man should need in his existence!
Shampoo: But...that is not true! What we do is honorable...it has the weight of long tradition...
Merchant: Tradition? Leave my store, and never do business with me again! I won't have your kind in my establishment, and neither will anyone else in the Furinkan Financial district!
Shampoo: But...but you do not understand...this one...she loves her Airen...!
Merchant: Love? Hah! If you really cared about the family that's adopted you then you'd drown your brat and yourself in the nearest river! You cling to them out of selfishness, and they've tolerated you out of pity, but soon the world will know just what sort of scum you've been associating with! When that happens it will be the Tendos who suffer, not you! You just think you can do anything you want because you're a foreigner, but we won't tolerate your kind around here anymore! Not me and not the other merchants around Nerima!
Shampoo: You...you are saying...that having my baby...will bring shame and disgrace...to this one's family...to her Airen?
Merchant: Oh, so you've finally understood that much, have you? I was beginning to think you were too stupid to even grasp that much. Go on, get out of here, foreign slut! I ought to call the law on you for stealing...serves you right if you get hit by a truck...
o    Nabiki let slip her resentment to the original Akane over her Parental Favoritism.
o    Nabiki gave one of these to the original Ranma after revealing what would happen to Shampoo if he didn’t return her affection. Her outrage turning her words into knives that she deliberately used to sting Ranma's pride. Hoping that he would get the message and react the way she wanted him to.
·         Relationship Upgrade: Siren eventually does convince Cologne to do this with her with the two becoming all but inseparable.
·         Red Baron: Red Saladin a.k.a. Mohammed Jaril Alafar
·         Retcon: Do to the length of most of the fic this sometimes happens for example.
o    Ryoma used to be Ryoga’s older sister
·         Refuge in Audacity: Ranma’s response to finding out that Happosai already knew about the Hiryu Shoten Ha, was to ask Nabiki to fetch her camera, assuring her and Shampoo that it would mean victory on the marrow. When he finally explained his plan the both of them agreed that it was a reckless and foolish plan, but perhaps the best one if they were to achieve success against the Ancient pervert.
·         Reincarnation: Few souls are ever truly created we live many lives over and over
·         Relationship Upgrade: Soun and Silk
·         Retired Badass: Though time has mellowed her out and lessened her taste for true skullduggery, Ganglot is still a dangerous and entirely too gifted opponent.
o    Technically Comb and Silk are this since they gave up their warrior status for other pursuits
·         Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Nabiki did this to the Trog’s and Akuma after they tried to eat her.
·         Robot Me: Beiko used one of these in the battle against Shan Kwan as she was otherwise incapacitated.
·         Running Gag: People wondering if Kachu and Kasumi were switched at birth
==S==
·         Sanity Has Advantages: Kuno’s mind after Kodachi stopped drugging him became clear for the first time that he could remember, and suddenly he knew that the last eight years of his life had been wasted upon a hellish fog that had dulled his wits while causing him to fanaticize about a world made purely of his own warped perceptions.
·         Scarily Competent Tracker: Perfume is Joketsuzoku’s tracker as well as the village Enforcer she is so skilled that she is able to determine how long a fight happened just by looking at the way the bodies fall, how much force is applied, and the position of the limbs.
o    She once tracked a Yeti to its lair in a snowstorm just to steal a lock of its fur for one of Cologne's potions. She’s the exact opposite of a Hibiki, someone who can find her way out of a maze without even looking.
·         Schmuck Bait: Ganglot set herself up as this to lure Cologne into a Corealis trap
·         School Is for Losers: Cologne often says that public school is a waste of time and effort, merely an attempt at warehousing students line on one of those factory assembly lines that you find in some of the larger cities in China. She believes that the only valid education is the Master-Apprentice Chain that has prevailed with the Amazons since our earliest recollection.
·         Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Ganglot offered Nigel and Sidney the location of one of the lost treasures of Antiquity as well as to pay their travel cost as thanks for bringing Ryomi back to her. However since she was just some random woman claiming to be Ryomi’s grandmother they naturally refused.
·         Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Were it not that Kuno Pharmaceuticals has been a heavy contributor to Furukan high the Board of Regents would have long ago replaced Godai Kuno as principle instead of delegating authority to Assistant Principal Hiro. Unfortunately, so great is his reputation and such influence carries the Kuno name that none will challenge him for supremacy, and the student must all endure his rampages as he enforces a strict dress code by his military standards.
·         Sealed Evil in a Can: Back during the days before the Meiji restoration a battle was fought at the Tendo Dojo between a terrible Oni from one of the ninety-nine Hells named Kaarnak and a band of noble warriors who were the ancestors of Ranma and Nabiki. A wedding was then performed to seal the wards in place, and every few generations those wards must be recreated by an enactment of that ceremony. Without this ritual being enacted the barriers will break down and eventually the Oni will be released to seek her vengeance. She will then seek retribution against the heirs of the families that entrapped her in the first place. When the dojo was destroyed after the battle against the Royal Flush Gang weakening the seal Lotion called the Senshi to help deal with it.
·         Second Place Is for Winners: During a game of strip poker played with Genma’s various girlfriends, Nodoka tried her level best to lose as many rounds as she could, but Genma kept trying to cheat and slip fresh cards into her hand to help her out.
·         Serial Escalation: This is why Ganglot refuses to help personally against Cybelle
·         "Shaggy Dog" Story: Ganglot is a fan of this trope
·         Shameless Fanservice Girl: Siren constantly wears a harem girl costume and considering the fact that she looks like Barbara Eden.
·         Shock and Awe: Nabiki is able to force a connection between positive and negative nodes to create lightning.
·         Shout-Out: Cybele mentioned how the restraints Hild had her in would have made a character from Urotsukudoji blush with shame
·         Sink-or-Swim Mentor: Happosai believes that adversity challenges one to tap into their latent potential. The more harsh the adversity the greater the effort that is made by a martial artist trying to stay alive and conquer the odds. This is why he forced Soun and Genma to suffer trials that break down their wills and badly tarnishes their honor. It doesn’t matter if this training makes one a social pariah, all that matters is the training itself and the will to fight.
o    Erin O'shea remembering Ukyo and introducing her to her new apprentice Leona is this to the Talking Is a Free Action from The Naked Gun.
Ami: Excuse me, I don't mean to be a nag on this subject, but according to my calculations we have less than three minutes left until that device explodes...
o    Atsuko compared Silk to the Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat segment from Rocky And Bullwinkle
o    The title itself is one to Charles Dickens
o    Nabiki started one of her diary entries with the famous quote
o    After having a mild My God, What Have I Done? for given custody of her firstborn child to Cologne. She compared it to the equivalent of throwing her into the springs of Jusenkyo. She thought with her family’s luck it would be the Nannichuan however she found the idea of Shampoo turning into a man was patently silly.
o    Nabiki compared Lotion explaining to her how Sex Changes Everything to a Frank Herbert novel.
o    When the Oni entered Shampoo and she grew horns Nabiki commented on how cute she looked.
o    Hinako is The Dreaded for Cologne she went so far as comparing it the fear a certain pirate felt for a crocodile in a place called Neverland.
o    Jim often put Parody titles in the ending comments
o    While talking with Silk, Atsuko, and Comb Naomi asked if Soun would be joining them Kennou compared his and Genma’s Unwanted Assistance to The Three Stooges. And unfavorably at that.
o    Upon fining out about Chardin Nabiki said that her father had some 'splainin' to do.
o    The Unstoppable Rage Nabiki unleashed on Akuma had one of the stage hands quoting Heart of Darkness
o    After being called to Continuum-59343921 by Anri and asked to aid in rescuing her counterparts children from The Archmage Shang Kwan. That version of Lotion made the obvious Incredibly Lame Pun. Nabiki lamented that whatever the universe her mentor has a barbed sense of humor.
·         Shown Their Work: Unlike in the original series where Tyr is Kami-Sama as befit to the shows basis in Norse Mythology. Jim focuses on Japanese Mythology by having the Japanese Heaven be ruled by three Major Gods, each of whom take turns playing out the role of Kami-Sama according to a complex schedule of time and season. The first is the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu Omikami, the second is her brother, Tsukiyomi, the Moon God, and third is Susanowa, the Lord of Storms and God of the Seas.
o    The reason Urd, Belldandy and Skuld’s names closely parallel their Norse counterparts, is that their father believed that filling a niche was important to the new order. Borrowing a page from the Norse pantheon, he gave his three daughters an aspect of the principle of Fate so that one became guardian of the Past while the others are of the present and the future. In recent times all three became System Guardians of the Universal Computer, Yggdrasil.
·         Sibling Yin-Yang: Kasumi and Kachi are like night and day to each other
Kachu: Everyone seems to admire her. She can cook and clean as well as any man in my village, am I right? I'm the one who's considered too dangerous to even let loose near a stake-knife, let alone a pair of chopsticks! I'm no one's ideal of a bride, but at least I'm competent at something other than insults!
o    This is a consequence of both them and their mothers being templates. There is a link between them, Kasumi chooses to be positive, to always surround herself with a blanket of warm and caring thoughts that cancel out the negativity that often confronts her. But some of it winds up going into Kachu. Enough that it affects the core of her being. Kachu has always had great anger within her, much of it with no clear source or focus.
·         Sink-or-Swim Fatherhood: Proving that deep down he is a good man upon finding out that his passionate goodbye to Silk resulted in Kachu’s birth he didn’t hesitate to reach out and hug her there on the street. Unfortunately Kachu just found out about him as well and wasn’t all that used to being manhandled in quite so emotional a manner so sent him flying.
·         Sins of Our Fathers: Atsuko resentment over losing Genma to Nodoka as well as learning that her son was not the much-coveted Nexus provoked her pride and lead her to goading her son into his eventual resentment of Nodoka's child, and once Ryoga began resenting Ranma it took little effort on her part to encourage their rivalry, up to the point when her son foolishly ran off in pursuit of his vengeance and got lost for the following three years, prompting Atsuko to have to follow after him and thus leave behind the comfortable life that she had created in the suburbs.
·         Skewed Priorities: The Nekonron blimp captain doesn’t store adequate supplies to get airborne, because then they’d have to carry fewer jars of pickles to make ballast. Losing an airship full of VI Ps and Priestess Mon-Mon is certainly bad news by any account, but to lose the sacred Pickle Jars would be a serious breach of courtly etiquette, and he had no intentions of starting out life as a lowly cabin boy again to work off his debt paying back his royal highness.
·         Small Role, Big Impact: The Merchant that Cybelle hypnotized into giving a vicious "The Reason You Suck" Speech to a pregnant Shampoo caused her to try and kill herself and she would have if she wasn’t saved at the last second by Nabiki.
·         Smart People Play Chess: Comb likes to indulge in the game of Chess with her husband in fact him defeating her in the game is how they were married.
·         Social Darwinist: Shang-Kwan believes that the world belongs to the strong and the insightful.
·         Soft Water: Averted after Ranma’s first round with Kiren ended with him plummeting to his death where it was that if he hit the water at such speeds he might as well have landed face-first in a bed of concrete.
·         Something Completely Different: Ranma wrote a diary during the period where Nabiki was Ret Gone to combat Cybelle’s trolling.
o    Saotome-Tendo Kokaku also writes a journal detailing finding her parents journals.
·         Something We Forgot: While hanging out with her cousins Kennou Akiko couldn’t help but feel that there was something important she had forgotten. It turns out that in order to make sure that the Captain D'amour didn’t attempt to ditch her she took the key’s to the ship with her.
o    She also forgot that shore leave ended for her a couple of weeks ago.
·         Spanner in the Works: Ganglot is this to Cybelle
o    The NWC stopping Red Saladin’s terrorist plot.
·         The Spartan Way: Oni society is often harsh and brutal, civilized on the exterior but quite barbaric underneath. Many Oni whom you would encounter are vicious, spiteful creatures, every bit as savage and ruthless as we are made out to be in legends. They are not naturally that way, any more than humans are themselves brutal and cruel to one another, but they all adapt in their own way to the demands of the societies into which they are born. About the only main features the Oni have that do conform to their fearsome legends is the fact that they have a Hair-Trigger Temper and lose their cool with far less provocation that most humans and revert to a savage, berserk-like stake when sufficiently angered.
·         Spirit Advisor: Anri
·         Squishy Wizard: While a powerful Mage Frost is not a fighter making her this
·         Spirit World: Lotion often lectures Nabiki at the place between worlds called the Astral Light, or dimension of Souls, where the Mind has more substance than the Body, and where change is unknown but belief is the absolute criteria for what you see, hear and experience.
·         Spoiled Brat: Kennou theorized to be the reason Akane Can't Catch Up
·         Stating the Simple Solution: While discussion ways to deal with Mousse as while Shampoo didn’t want to deal with him anymore she also didn’t want him dead. Ambergris came along stating that she would deal with him for her.
o    After the blimp crashed stranding everyone on Pangea. Ranma was the one who pointed out that Nabiki could use her Lore Master instincts to find them.
·         Statuesque Stunner: Comb
·         Stewed Alive: This happened to Nabiki on the Island the Time Forgot.
·         Stockholm Syndrome: Averted Nabiki called herself out for sympathizing with Mousse when he kidnapped her in order to Murder the Hypotenuse
·         Straw Nihilist: Akuma Zesutoru
Akuma: Imagine the meaninglessness of life as we know it. Life is suffering, we go from birth to death without knowing the reason for our being alive. The gods gave us reason and yet we use our brains to create such insanity as war and poverty. Civilized man is little better than an animal who thinks that he reasons, so why not chose to die a glorious death by embracing the madness and becoming one with the savage within us?
·         Stunned Silence: After her experience with the Trogs meeting Picolet Chardin II struck her Trauma Button causing this to happen.
o    This happened to Ranma when Comb told him I Want Grandkids.
·         Super Soldier: Kuno had his company gather samples of Jusenkyo water in an attempt to make one of these.
·         Super Strength: Ganglot gave Ju-Lan this when she granted his and Ro-Mano wish to get out of their village allowing him to carry her capstone which weighed sixty times his own bodyweight.
·         Supernatural Sensitivity: Frost and most likely Siren and any other mage are able to sense the flow of energy currents in the area, and when they see a concentration that looks familiar, they can approximate a person’s whereabouts to within a half kilometer. After that they just home in on the manna currents.
·         Surprise Incest: Narrowly averted Akiko discovered that Razor was her grandfather upon seeing the battle tattoo’s on his chest.
·         Sympathy for the Devil: Nabiki couldn’t help but be touched in a way by Mousse’s All of the Other Reindeer plight. When he couldn’t except the fact that he had accidentally splashed Shampoo with Jusenkyo water and began telling her his life story.
==T==
·         Take THAT: The Cold-Blooded Torture Kodachi subjected Sasuke to for failing to aid her in the seduction of Kasumi was forcing him to watch a six-hour marathon of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
o    Gods and demons may stretch the truth and bend it to their needs when necessary, but are forbidden to tell a direct lie.
Ryomi: What's the difference between bending the truth and lying?
Ganglot: A law degree and a career in politics,
·         Taking the Bullet: Both Shampoo and Akane dove in front of the duck spring water intended for Ukyo
·         The Talk: Comb gave this to Ranma
·         Technical Pacifist: AVST Ranma
Mousse: But you amaze me sometimes, Saotome. After all this time, the battles we've fought, the monsters we've put down, some of them a lot nastier than that lot, and still you would show mercy and compassion to creatures who regard us as some kind of lesser life form?
Ranma: I just don't see the point in killing when there ain't a need. Showing a little compassion ain't a sign of weakness, and it's not like those guys could actually hurt us...
·         Tempting Fate: After finding out that they couldn’t ditch Akiko and set sail "The Worthless Piece of Sh*t," because she took the keys D’Amour asked if it could get any worse. Immediately after this he was told that some of the crew managed to pry the boards off one of the port holes and escape into the harbor.
o    Due to Poor Communication Kills Nabiki thought Ranma was going to break up with her and Shampoo and because she’s Not Good with Rejection attempted Screw This, I'm Outta Here! only for Ranma to insist that she listen stating that he had something to say an wild elephants weren’t going to stop him. Right at that moment Lychee came crashing into the school looking for Happosai.
·         Third-Person Person: Kiren speaks like this.
·         Timeskip: The final event takes place approximately three months after the wedding.
·         Time Stands Still: This is one of the skills taught to Nabiki.
·         Took a Level in Badass: Nabiki becomes more combat capable once she starts to master her Lore Master abilities.
·         Tracking Device: Ayeka put one on Tenchi before letting him go to Ranma’s bachelor party
·         Triang Relations: Nabiki, Ranma, Shampoo
·         Training from Hell: Nabiki received this from Kodachi in preparation for her match with the Golden Pair
·         Trickster Mentor: This is one of Anri’s favorite teaching methods, often instructing people through syllogisms and analogies...or even parables and stories.
o    Ganglot
o    To call what Lotion does a lecture is a gross disservice to the old lady. More like she hits you with a pointed barb then waits for you to absorb the blow before smacking you again with the follow-up question. She makes you think even while you wince and wonder why you put up with her mind games. She's more teasing than stern and playful while being assertive, and while she doesn't exactly talk like your opinions mean nothing she has this annoying way of implying that you should already know the stuff she gives you, like she's humoring your ignorance in the hopes that you'll suddenly blossom out and sprout like a tree of knowledge.
o    This is the Amazon way of challenging warriors to become even better fighters.
Shampoo: Shampoo learn same way, Great Grandmother teach many difficult thing, only later Shampoo know why she make Shampoo upset first before teaching. Great warrior conquer anger, learn go all out, no hold back in training. Shampoo learn very hard, always train, Great Grandmother expect only best. Want Shampoo become Matriarch of tribe some day, so she teach Shampoo to be best warrior of generation.
o    Later Shampoo did the same to help Akane control her temper.
·         True Sight: Nodoka has the ability to see through the obvious and into the depths and the truth hidden from most mortals.
·         Trust Password: To confirm that Razor was Akiko’s grandfather D’Amour had Brunt attack him with a grinder. Needless to say Brunt was left without any doubts.
·         Tsundere: According to Silk aside from unusual pituitary growth, irascibility and a tendency to mood swings that would do credit to a badger, Comb turn out quite normal.
o    When Nabiki saw what her mother was like before she and Soun got married she referred to her as a Chinese Amazon who was like a walking PMS case ready to explode on anyone who even slightly irritated her.
·         Twice Shy: This is why humanity has become Obsessively Normal. The birth of Adam and Eve was met by alarm from those Star Clans who did not share in a love for the co-created life forms. Some wanted to terminate the experiment in cross-breeding, seeing only corruption and a fall from grace in these new forms, while others wanted to study them at greater length and fathom their true potential. This lead to a division among the Tribes, so that where there had been Unity there was now division and antipathy. The perfect harmony of the One Race with its Unimind was disrupted, and this would lead in time to the first terrible war of the Powers, a hideous and perverse conflagration that would sunder the world itself and change the shape of the very continents themselves. To this day the backlash of that war is felt deep within the consciousness of man.
==U==
·         Ugly Cute: Kasumi’s pet baby Pterodactyl Lockheed
·         Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Masamichi Fujisawa is described as an unshaven man with an unkempt manner that defined him as one of extremely poor grooming habits. While Miz Mishtal is described as a very slender woman with pale lavender hair.
·         Underestimating Badassery: This is one of the reason why Colgone hide’s her true appearance as her elderly disguise conveys the impression to others that she is a "weak and helpless elderly person, which tends to make people underestimate how formidable she actually is.
o    Though her young and beautiful true form is often passed off as a "piece of fluff" by those who do not realize their peril.
o    People forget that Kasumi is a trained martial artist as seen by everyone’s surprise when she took out half a dozen guys in as many seconds.
Comb: Well, what do you know? She's Kimiko's daughter after all. Who would have thought?
·         Unfortunate Names: The owners of the restaurant that Ukyo and Shampoo went to on their date
Long Wang: Shows how well you know him. Believe me, when you're parents are a couple of comedians who give you a name like Long Wang, you're capable of anything. I'm Hung Wel, by the way, so don't go making any smart-ass jokes about it, you got that?
Hung Lo: My brother never did have much of an eye for good, talented employees.
Ryoga: Your brother?
Hung Lo: Little brother, actually, I'm Hung Lo, the Head Chef of this restaurant, and the one guy you don't want to get on his bad side.
Akane: Hung...Lo?
Ryoga: Uh, excuse me for asking, but who exactly owns this place?
Hung Lo: Enormous Genitals. He's my cousin.
·         The Unfought: After a formidable display of spearfighting skills against Ranma Ukyo and Ryoga, Bishamonten is taken out by a single attack from Sailor Jupiter
·         Unrequited Tragic Maiden: Shampoo from the original timeline knows her love is not returned but does not want to acknowledge this truth, being desperately afraid of being abandoned and rejected.
·         unresolvedsexualtension: Combs attitude towards Genma can come across like this at times
o    This is why Rei teases Usagi so much.
·         Unsettling Gender Reveal: This is why Makoto initially broke up with her sempai.
·         Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The Nekonron Officer of the Deck who asked one of the prince guest to take the wheel and hold course while he found the Captain to tell him something. That guest happened to be Ryoga.
==V==
·         Vagueness Is Coming: Lotion first sensed Cybelle this way as a hostile presence that crept up among them and was working to shape events towards some unknown purpose for which she felt only grave misgivings.
·         Vestigial Empire: Very little is left of the long-vanished empire that summoned Ganglot as their resident goddess after they were wiped out by the Amazons.
·         Villain Ball: The only reason that everyone were able survive is because Shang-Kwan did not reckon them to be any kind of serious threat to either him or his plans.
o    Cybelle letting the group know the building itself was her stronghold
·         Villainous Breakdown: Akuma could not get over the fact that Nabiki was able to escape and that he had lost control over the production and that people were no longer following his directions.
·         Vitriolic Best Buds: Comb and Silk have a long-term relationship of friendly banter, similar to what sometimes goes down between Nabiki and Kasumi
==W==
·         Was It Really Worth It?: Nabiki wondered if Pai’s Heroic Sacrifice was worth it as here was a little girl whose daddy had been an insane movie director and whose mother had been cooked and eaten to insure her survival. Jingo had grown up in an environment where "kill or be killed" was literally a divine commandment and had doubtlessly taken part in every cannibal feast that had followed over the course of the past ten years. There was no way she would be able to go back to civilization and grow up normally among other civilized people.
·         Wax On, Wax Off: Lore Master training is done through a series of lectures.
Nabiki: You've been teaching me to do that stuff all along. You showed me what I could do, and I learned to do it on pure instinct.
·         Weaksauce Weakness: Cybelle’s only limitation so far appears to be her reliance on technology as a medium of transfer.
o    Also her overconfidence
·         We Have Reserves: This was Ganglot’s argument for why Ro-Mano should obey Japanese laws as even if she defeated one policeman, ten more will come after her and if she defeats those ten, then a hundred will then be seeking to arrest her.
·         Well-Intentioned Extremist: Peorth’s My Beloved Smother routine is the result of this to the point she ended up switching Nabiki with her original template.
Ganglot: It was an accident...an unintended side-effect or resetting the original template for this Timeline to create a parallel slot based on how things were originally going to progress. Your companion's reality was the one fated to be before a wish cast by your future self remade everything along a different pathway. Now that your timeline has stabilized and become somewhat permanent, she thought to discover something in the contrast that would give her a clue on how to arrange things in your sister's future that would lead to a more-or-less satisfying outcome. Of course her intentions were pure but her methods were somewhat less than sterling, but that's usually the way things go whenever Peorth is on the scene. She's a sweetheart, but honestly, you'd think she'd get a reality check and tone down her enthusiasm.
·         whatdoessheseeinhim: Genma was quite the ladies man in his youth, Comb now Older and Wiser asked herself this question.
Nodoka: So, nothing has changed for us since the old days, has it? Even though I'm the one he married, you two still covet my husband.
Comb: Who's coveting him? He's weak, conniving, untrustworthy, a coward who abandons children along the side of the road, selfishly obsessed with both is appetite and raising his son to be a 'Man-Among-Men...!
Shampoo: Aiyaa, Shampoo never know Shampoo mother so much love Ranma father. Why you leave him to marry Shampoo father?
o    Though she does admit that he has his good points.
Comb: Do not be so shocked, young Warrior. There was more to your father in those days than the person you see now. After all, despite his many faults, he managed somehow to raise you to be a warrior fit enough to defeat an Amazon champion and earn your groom status.
o    Yumi felt the same way about Soun
o    Averted with Atsuko his negative nature is what attracts her as a demoness.
o    Cologne has never understood what it is about Saotome Genma that makes him such Clueless Chick Magnet that can attract the interest of such strong-willed woman as Atsuko and Comb.
·         What You Are in the Dark: Jusenkyo brings out something deep inside you that causes you to become the thing you hide from others.
·         Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: Played with in the love pearl arc when Mariko found one Akane warned her not to put it into her mouth only for Mariko to reply with this trope. Her sister then kicked her hand causing the pellet to fly out of Mariko's palm and into her mouth.
o    When informed that they couldn’t set sail "The Worthless Piece of Sh*t," because Akiko took the keys to the key-lock to the ignition installed during the last refitting. When D'Amour asked why they would do a damned fool thing like that. He was informed that he gave the order after the last mutiny.
o    Ryoga was everyone’s first thought when they tried to figure out how they ended up in Pangea instead of Japan.
Rei: What idiot would deliberately steer us to some primitive Monster Island?
Ami: It would have to be someone who utterly lacked any sense or direction
Everyone: RYOGA...!!!
·         Wholesome Crossdresser: Ambergris is attracted to these, something she found out when she briefly lived in the Lugu Lake region with the ancestral cousins to the Amazons, the Mosuo of Yunnan province, and later had confirmed when she saw a Zeigfield-style performance of 'La Cage Au Follies' in Thailand.
·         Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Cybelle to Atsuko
Cybelle: To begin with, I first became aware more than twenty years ago that a new Nexus was to be born to the humble residents of a simple Tokyo suburb. The plan then was simple enough, arrange for my daughter to become the mother to the Nexus, then wait the appropriate number of years until the boy was old enough to be manipulated to my liking. Had I been successful, then I would have been the first demoness on my rung of the Ninety-Nine Hells to own one. Unfortunately you couldn’t even do that much right, my little directionless Potato-spud. You wound up having the younger brother to the Nexus, whose connection with him was as intangible as it was confusing.
o    Akira is pretty much a less abusive version of Mr. Fujinami
o    This is the reason for original Akane’s Tsundere nature. Failure Is the Only Option for her and Ranma’s relationship. She’s in love with Ranma-Chan but has deluded herself into thinking that it's really just Ranma. It angers her, and drives her crazy when he insists on being a Guy all of the time, so she punishes him.
o    A download example with Lotion and Silk while she loves her granddaughter and doesn’t find anything particularly wrong with her, there are times when Silk could be fairly exasperating, and though she usually means well she has a long way to go before Lotion was satisfied enough to designated her as her chosen successor.
·         Winged Humanoid: Akane is turned into this in A Tale of Two Wallets
·         Women Are Wiser: Inverted as Shampoo found out during her bachelorette party, Japanese women...so quiet, prim and proper on the surface...can become wanton and raunchy when given a permissive environment in which to release their emotions. Japanese men, by contrast, are more subdued when they are entertained by attractive women, as though they let down a different kind of mask that hides their real selves from the public.
o    Among Amazons it can be a similar experience as Warriors revel in their emotions while men are more quietly domestic. As seen with Comb and Hairbrush
·         Woman Scorned: Happosai’s indulgences combined with his Never My Fault attitude was the reasons why the Council of Elders banished him to the peripheral territory outside their village. The punishment would have been worse but Cologne spoke out on his behalf and her word carried weight even in those days. She was a young girl in love, and Happosai was kind to her as he was to no one else, just as she was the only one who showed him any kindness. Unfortunately he could not control his wicked compulsion to bother and molest the rest of the village and quickly feel out of her good graces.
o    He then went on to steal the treasures of the Amazon’s leaving Cologne embittered and heartbroken.
o    Cybelle
Razor: What's the meaning of all of this? Why are you having these children fight out our battles? What's happened to you that you can enjoy inflicting so much misery and suffering on others...
Cybelle: What's happened to me? You ask me that NOW, forty years after you walked out on me to go to the store to buy a box of crackers???
Razor: Well, I was hungry...
==Y==
·         You're Not My Father: Averted though Kuno and Kodachi gladly wishes it was played straight
·         You Have Failed Me: Averted Kuno was going to kill the Gambler King for his failure but was stopped by Sasuke
·         You Already Changed the Past: This is the reason Nabiki decided to accept the engagement.
·         You Can't Go Home Again: Played with while Ranma did eventually go home since he never had a room to himself before the whole concept was completely foreign to him.
·         Your Cheating Heart: Thanks to his Laser-Guided Amnesia Razor is this something she isn’t happy about
·         Your Mind Makes It Real: Creating an illusion that revolves around this trope is how Ganglot protected everyone from Cybelles assassination attempt
o    This is the reason for Cologne’s Shapeshifter Mode Lock a splash of Jusenkyo water cost it by reinforcing her self-conception as a young girl and not an old woman.
·         Your Normal Is Our Taboo: Ro-Mano was shocked to discover that in Japanese society women bear no special status above that of men and there are a different set of laws that must be abided by if she wanted to live among them in peace without interference from those in higher rank above her
Ro-Mano: Laws, What kind of barbaric country have you taken us to???
·         Your Son All Along: Upon reuniting the first thing Atsuko did was admit that Genma was Ryoga’s real father.
·         Younger Than They Look: Given that she is the daughter of Yosho all of Colognes family is this.
Hairbrush: "Not that there is anything wrong with looking young and hearty at the tender age of forty...and your family is noted for its longevity...the evidence in the next room being a prime case on example."
·Comb, Silk, Atsuko and Nodoka all look like they are in their 20s.
·Of course both Comb and Nodoka have Juraian blood, Silk is a Lore Master, and Atsuko is an Oni.
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