Most Unlikely of Friends/Tropes

==General==
*Adaptational Badass: Kuno has been fighting two practitioners of elemental style for quite some time so is significantly more skilled then his original counterpart.
*Adaptational Heroism: The Original Cologne didn’t lead Shampoo to believe that Lotion the Younger was dead.
*Adaptation Name Change: Wade changed the name of the characters in the fanfiction.net version to better conform to their nationality.
**Maomolin isn’t named in the original story and is simply referred to as the Bakeneko. The newer version does use the name however.
*Adaptation Personality Change: Akane is a lot more mature and accepting of her faults.
*Adaptational Villainy: If Comb and Hairbrush are Shampoo’s parents in this universe them disowning her for being unable to catch up is this.
**Averted it turns out Cologne bullied them into it.
**While Cologne is generally depicted as a Control Freak in this fic she is positively evil. From disowning Shampoo to being unwilling to help in freeing her when her curse became locked.
*All Your Powers Combined: Tae-il as well as his siblings are Anthropomorphic Personification of the planet itself. The planet is a big living thing and it has all the power, all the knowledge, and all the skill of everyone living on this world.
*Alternate Universe: The story switches between the original Ranma ½ universe and the Most Unlikely Of Friends universe.
**This fanfic is also apart of the Altered Destinies Fan Verse
**The original Ranma later ends up in the A Scary Thought universe.
*Always Someone Better: Zig-zagged Shampoo is better then Ranma due to more experience and training however she readily acknowledges that he is more skilled then her.
*An Axe to Grind: Perfume fights with axes
*Anthropomorphic Personification: The masters of the four Elemental Fury Styles are the avatars of the Earth itself, embodying all life, knowledge and power therein. However, due to a failing in the unification technique, the bond between them has become unstable, causing each to embody only their own preferred mental states, rendering them essentially insane.
**The Four Masters are the embodiments of the great spirit of the planet. However, they've lost their connection between each other and have gone mad. You see, each represents a portion of human thought: Discipline, Creativity, Passion, and Reason. They did this so they could better understand our diversity of thought, but when they were disconnected, they fell into misbalance. They are now Order without Freedom, Emotion without Reason... Each is totally mad.
*Apocalypse How: This is happening to the original timeline on a universal scale which is why Derek was transporting people to MUOF.
**Many thousands of years ago four individuals appeared with the mastery of the four styles, some of the ideas of which have been stolen and misinterpreted to this very day. The styles mysteriously died out, some claiming the masters went crazy and killed all of their pupils. The only records that survived were those of witnesses observing the techniques of the various styles. At best, over time, we've only managed to emulate these techniques, never truly duplicate them. Some hundred or so years later a group of four siblings appeared once more with the mastery of these styles. At the time though, the arrogance of a group of warriors caused them to challenge the four to battle. The emotion of the moment isn't what caused the disaster that followed, it was the danger the four were in. The warriors that challenged them were indeed great and powerful, and the four were still new to their abilities. When the battle went on they started to fall to the warriors, and only then did it happen. Of course, the four were stopped, but the destruction was such that for several thousand years, right up to almost our own time, whenever four appeared with these talents they were immediately destroyed before they could mature. The risk was simply too great. Some think they are demons, especially considering their uncanny knack for reappearing every century or two. In truth, the four are the avatars of the Earth itself, embodying all life, knowledge and power therein. However, due to a failing in the unification technique, the bond between them has become unstable, causing each to embody only their own preferred mental states, rendering them essentially insane.
*Attack! Attack! Attack! : The basic philosophy of the Lightning Style.
*Attack Its Weak Point: Those who have mastered the Art Of Focus examine opponent and find their points of greatest weakness, or rather the paths of least resistance.
*Aura Vision: Ranma and Shampoo gain this once they master the Art of Focus.
*Badass Teacher: Akane and Shampoo are the ones who do most of Ranma and Ryoga’s training.
**By OVA 2 Akane and Shampoo have advanced enough in skill that they are able to start training each other in their style.
*Birthmark of Destiny: The Masters of the Elemental Fury Styles have these on the back of their neck. Tae-il has the mark of Yi the symbol of the element of fire showing that he is a master of Inferno. While Soon Li has the symbol of Kun, or the heavens.
*Blue-and-Orange Morality: Amazons are well acquainted with magic, and don't view it as negatively as many others do, at least in general. In fact, for them magic is often thought of in a positive sense. They use it for healing, information gathering, the protection of the village, and many other things. It is a common thing to them, and they see it as a valuable tool most the time. That's not to say they accept all its uses, for it is a highly regulated thing in the village, and sometimes prone to abuse. However, in general they take it as a good or acceptable thing.
*Clueless Chick Magnet: It’s Ranma so this is a given
: Mousse: Hmmh. What is it that women see in him? You're the fourth woman I've heard that... took a liking to him.
: Ukyo: Fourth?
: Mousse: Well, let's see. Akane, Kodachi, you and... Shampoo, that's four.
: Ukyo: {sadly}I don't really know.
: Mousse: You still like him?
: Ukyo: {sadly}Yes.
*Confusion Fu: The Art of Chaos is based on the chaos of a hurricane, tornado or other such wind storms that seem unpredictable. Trainees learn to release that chaos in their own fighting style making themselves so chaotic that the advantage of the Art of Focus is nullified.
*Control Freak: Nabiki which is why she has such a Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality as the very nature of love precludes you having absolute control.
*Didn't Think This Through: Averted Ranma’s Character Development was realizing how much his Brutal Honesty hindered him and began to start thinking things through. However since he was used to employing the Indy Ploy he looked at problems like they were a battle.
*Distinguishing Mark: Tae-il realized that Soon Li was his sister when told that she had a similar birthmark as him.
*Dramatic Irony: It’s revealed in A Vary Scary Thought that Natsume and Kurumi are actually Soun’s nieces (Genma’s as well).
**However this could be a matter of Depending on the Writer.
**Akane and Shampoo believe or at least are telling themselves that they believe that the visions of other universe are All Just a Dream. The audience however knows differently.
*Elemental Rock–Paper–Scissors: None of the Elemental Fury Styles are superior overall. They are all equal in their own way, with strengths and weaknesses that most often appose their opposite. Wade hasn’t gown into it, but another difference they have is their unifications:
**Storm is VERY fast to unify but is the shortest duration at a max of 15 min.
***The Storm sTyle itself due to the Logical Weakness of the two arts. Lightning has only a limited ranged arsenal. Electricity naturally wants to travel towards the Earth, so blasts have only a range of ten, perhaps twenty feet. Additionally, Lightning Style is not as effective defensively as it is on the offense. Wind Style on the other hand lacks some utility in close combat. Many of the upper level techniques are designed for a maximum range, and are not usable in close. Each, in a way, is the natural bane of the other.
**Quake can be maintained for a full day, but takes a full hour of constant concentration to unite.
**Infernos is interesting in that it actually merges in the physical bodies, keeping them safe, but at the cost of having a 3 day cool down even for the briefest of usages.
**Blizzard has essentially no cool down, as you can re-unite as you wish, BUT it taxes the bodies of the two components to the point that even after 2 unites you're risking serious harm to do a 3rd in quick succession, and a 4th is pretty much guaranteed to cause permenant harm if not death.
*Entitled to Have You: This is why Akane doesn’t like Kuno and why Shampoo hated Mousse and is still a little uncomfortable around him. They thought they were Akane and Shampoo’s future husbands and the two had no say in the matter.
*Equivalent Exchange: Discussed by Bu Xien. In dimensional travel there is usually an exchange, as if the total mass of a universe has to remain constant. Derek however doesn’t seem to have that restriction so either the Original Akane and Shampoo are plain gone, or they are still somewhere in the original universe, because they aren’t in MOUF, and either way you shake it that means no exchange. He didn’t know if that was good, bad, or irrelevant.
*Flash Sideways: The Friendship Bracelets causes this.
*Foil: Perfume and Tsubasa both are dogged nice guys but where tsubasa combines Crazy Jealous Guy with the thing that wouldn’t leave. Perfume is understanding, helpful and above all else she listens. The only thing keeping them apart is Incompatible Orientation.
*Foreshadowing: Derek told Ranma about the Scary Thought Universe and how Kasumi handled the general chaos of Nerima far better then he does.
*For Want of a Nail: Three months after Kimiko’s death a depressed Soun decided to take his take his daughters on a vacation to get away from things. They ended up in china where Nabiki convinced him to take them to the Amazon Village.
**Averted a lot of things in the universe had to be changed for all parties to reach the choices they made. From Lao not marrying Julep (or at least he didn’t Took a Level in Jerkass), Comb and Silk not going to Japan in an attempt to retrieve items Happosai stole. The more we learn of this universe the more we see how different it is from the original.
*Fragile Speedster: Lightning Style is all about speed not strength.
**Perfume is incredibly sensitive to pain.
*Fun with Acronyms: AAADTG stands for Any And All Dirty Tricks Go
*Glass-Shattering Sound: The Thunder Clap Punch imagine Van Halen, AC DC, Guns and Roses, and the Who all having a battle of the bands in the same room. Then imagine that ten times as loud and you'd get roughly the volume.
*Happily Adopted: Soun adopted Shampoo after she was disowned and took her back to Japan with him.
*Hero Protagonist: The hunters are Well-Intentioned Extremist who kill the four spirits every time they are reborn. Tae-il admits that though he resents them he understands understand their concerns.
*Hoist by His Own Petard: The basic technique of the Wind Style involves bending with every one of an opponent's attacks.
*Honor-Related Abuse: Cologne’s harsh training of Perfume is done in response to her taking Shampoo’s place as the village champion.
*I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Mousse gave up his pursuit for shampoo after seeing how happy she was with Ranma.
*Improbable Use of a Weapon: Perfume can throw her axes like boomerangs.
*In Name Only: Wade originally based Soon-li off of Chun Li. However, after several character modifications little of Chun Li remains.
*In Spite of a Nail: Shampoo still gets a curse
**Soon Li opened the Nekohantan
**Comb is usually forced by Cologne to give up her parental rights when she decides to become a healer instead of a warrior. However in the MUOF universe she doesn’t seemed to have taken the journey that allowed her to have her epiphany to become a doctor. This means that Cologne still has a firm hold over her so is able to dictate what happens to Shampoo.
**Soon Li was always planning on leaving the village however in the original she left after helping rescue Lao from the Musk.
*Just Eat Gilligan: Mousse got corrective eye surgery while in America.
*Living Lie Detector: The Art of Focus is an excellent tool for detecting liars.
**Bu is also good at detecting Lies. Which is how the originals found out that Akane and Shampoo do have memories of their world.
*Logical Weakness: The basic techniques of the wind and lightning style use this to counter each other. The wind style bends with attacks to avoid damage while the lightning style attacks so fast that it gives them no place to move while sacrificing strength.
*MacGuffin: The Friendship Bracelets
*Master Poisoner: Bu Xien fights using drugs
**Kodachi as well in fact she help Ranma counter Bu Xien’s
: Kodachi: Oh, quite easily. They have not yet invented the poison that the Black Rose cannot overcome. But...
*My Greatest Failure: For Mousse it was failing to realize that he and Shampoo were Just Friends and in his relentless pursuit of becoming something more, unlike Akane he wasn’t there when she needed him most.
*Never Live It Down: Averted while the council aren't exactly overjoyed at Perfume's little problem she's the best warrior they've had in over a generation.
*Nice Guy: While Ranma is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold no matter the universe the heart of gold outshines the jerk.
*Nominal Importance: Every word out of Derek’s mouth is important it’s up to the people he talks to figure it out.
*Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Shampoo slips back into talking in the first person when she’s angry.
*Original Character: Bu Xien is an original creation, to my knowledge, as are Derek and Telrin.
*Playing with Syringes: This is what happened when the Elemental Fury Style was first developed. Lead by the four, the students were honed to perfection and beyond. Then, when the human body could be pushed no further, there came the final form, and with it destruction and madness.
*Power Perversion Potential: The Art of Chaos is the perfect counter for a Living Lie Detector.
*Reality Ensues: Amazon’s practice Super Breeding Program so while they have no problems allowing two women to marry they do not wish for such partnerships to be without offspring. Meaning that the couple can take a concubine or something more permanent.
**The reason Cologne didn’t learn the Storm Style is because she’s simply too old to become a student. There is also the matter of the complexity of the style, her duties as an elder, and the fact that Soon Li wasn’t prepared to be a teacher at the time.
*Reimagining the Artifact: the fanfiction.net version
*Relationship Upgrade: Ukyo and Mousse
*Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up: Perfume was the girl who tormented shampoo when she was Paralysis by Analysis.
*Second Love: Soon Li to Soun
**Mousse started falling for Ukyo after giving up on Shampoo.
*Shock and Awe: The lightning style.
: Ranma: Rather loud!
: Akane: That's nothing. It can get a lot louder.
*Super Senses: Perfume can hear a pin drop in a Karaoke bar.
*That Was Not a Dream: The original Akane and Shampoo had visions of this universe in her sleep.
*The Greatest Style: The Storm Styles are considered this. The Original Cologne has gone so far as to say that at this time there is no superior style to full Storm Style in existence.
**Ranma actually doesn’t believe this in his own words no style in invincible.
*The Reveal: Derek is attempting to stop an Apocalypse How
*Timey-Wimey Ball: Time passes differently between the two universes. Two days in the original was about a month in the new one.
*Training from Hell: You can only master the wave technique once you can harness the electricity of Taser without getting hurt.
**Cologne locked Perfume in a vat of killer bees and had her chop off their wings.
*Transferable Memory: This is one of the powers of the friendship bracelet that allow the wearer to become a Dimensional Traveler.
*Unholy Matrimony: Bu and Kodachi
*Visions of Another Self: Holding the bracelet transfers the bearers mind to the MOUF’s universe.
*"Well Done, Son!" Guy: A master student variation that no matter how hard Perfume works, it is never good enough for Cologne.
*Wicked Stepmother: Discussed in universe but ultimately averted.
*Yin-Yang Bomb: The final technique of the Storm Style can only be performed as a pair: one master of Lightning, and one of Wind. This is why the planet spirit had to bring both Shampoo and Akane to the original universe to teach them.
==Most Unlikely of Friends==
*Accidental Pervert: Shampoo put it best when Ranma accidentally walked in on her and Akane
:: Akane: Do you still think he's not a pervert?
:: Shampoo: Pervert, no. Really stupid, yes. {Pause}He's well built though
*Actually Pretty Funny: Shampoo dying Akane’s hair green.
*Adorably Precocious Child: Nabiki and Kasumi are depicted like this when they were 10, 8, being fluent in Chinese and even playing match maker between Soun and Soon li.
*Artistic License: Since Wade hadn’t read a manga or seen a anime episode with Bakeneko in it. He wrote him from a translation of the manga that involved that curse on Shampoo and plot breakdowns of his anime episodes and manga appearances.
*Bait-and-Switch: Akane and Shampoo race to see who gets to work at the Nekohanten. The winner has to work.
**We later find out the loser has to fight the hentai horde
**After Shampoo showed Kuno Ranma’s curse
:: Kuno: I would never have guessed. {Pause}Now I understand what Nabiki meant.
:: Ranma: {relieved}sigh
:: Kuno: What cunning you have to disguise yourself as a boy!
**Soon Li telling Azusa who was hitting Mikado with a chair trying to get back Shampoo that the furniture isn’t supposed to be used that way. Then giving her a mace.
**A sad one when Ranma finally made his decision on who he would marry.
:: Ranma: Okay, okay *breath*I... I want you both to know that I... I really had a tough time choosing. I... *breath*I... *sigh*. It's really hard for me to say this. I... I... I... *breath*I really... really care for both of you. I'm sorry it took me so long to choose. It's just that... that... *sigh*. It's just that I didn't... I didn't want to hurt either of you but... I guess... *breath*but I have to make the choice. *Sigh*{long pause}I... *breath*{long pause}I... no. {Long pause}Akane…
:: Ranma: Akane... Akane I... I'm... {barely above a whisper}I'm sorry. I chose Shampoo.
*Betty and Veronica: For the majority of the first series Akane and Shampoo were this to Ranma’s archy due to postponing the choice.
**Ryoga and Ranma were this to Akane after he showed up.
*Big Bad: Bakeneko
*The Big Damn Kiss: Ranma gave Kuno one of these as a distraction.
*Blatant Lies: Nabiki wasn’t taking Shampoo’s picture for any particular reason.
*Both Sides Have a Point: Akane is angry at Ranma because he didn’t tell her about his curse allowing her to walk in on what she thought was a girl. Ranma relied that he was not aware that the Tendo’s knew about Jusenkyo so didn’t know how they’d react.
*Bratty Half-Pint: Shampoo was shown to be this.
*Caffeine Bullet Time: Mastering the Grand Lightning Punch requires drinking 200 trays of caffeine, give/take 50
*Catapult Nightmare: Shampoo had one of these about Azusa locking her in a cage after recognizing the locket.
*Character Development: While it is subtle Ranma not only skating in his male form, but letting Akane teach him is this.
*Child Prodigy: Kasumi and Nabiki learned Chinese in a month.
*Clueless Chick Magnet: Akane honestly didn’t realize that Ryoga liked her much to Nabiki’s surprise.
*The Cuckoolander Was Right: Yes Shampoo is Charllet
*Completely Missing the Point: When the villiagers started laughing after Akane defeated Shampoo. She thought they were laughing at her.
*Contrived Coincidence: Ranma-chan and Kuno happened to go to the same movie theater as Ryoga and Akane.
*Crazy Enough to Work: Akane defeated the Goodbye Whirl by having Ranma let her go so that she could use Blow You Away while in the air.
:: Ranma: That's was the stupidest idea you've ever had Akane.
:: Akane: It worked didn't it.
:: Ranma: Yeah, but don't do it again.
*Curb-Stomp Battle: Ranma and Perfume’s rematch ended with her decimating him
*Curb-Stomp Cushion: Soun was only able to land one clumsy desperate punch on Soon Li. Though he ended up defeating her it was completely by accident.
*Deconstruction: This fic deconstructs Azusa adopting Ryoga. It shows the psychological toll the experience has on Shampoo causing her to have nightmares about being locked up and have trouble sleeping.
*Despair Event Horizon: The Bakeneko succeeded in trapping Shampoo and they had no way of curing her.
*Didn't Think This Through: Ranma joining the race between Shampoo and Akane.
**As the Bakaneko found out just because he trapped Shampoo in her cursed form doesn’t mean she’d marry him.
*Distinction Without a Difference: Kuno would not use a disguise when courting Akane because he could never stoop to the level of deception, but he could travel in concealment.
:: Kuno: All I need do is where attire that no one would suspect the great Tatewaki Kuno to wear. Yes, that's it, no one will suspect that it is actually the Blue Thunder that watches over the lovely Akane.
:: Sasuke: I see master, a disguise without an actual disguise. How ingenious of you
:: Kuno: Of course. Come Sasuke, there's not a moment to loose. To the clothing stores.
*Does Not Know His Own Strength: Akane in her frustration in being unable to hit Ranma accidentally fired a bigger blast then she met to.
*Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Perfume was furious at Shampoo for apologizing for her Laser-Guided Karma.
*Establishing Character Moment: Soon Li is introduced as a Badass Reasonable Authority Figure. After quickly putting an end to a fight between Ranma and Genma and learning what was going on she calmed everyone down by pointing out that Ranma didn’t have to make a decision at that moment and it would be best to allow him, Akane, and Shampoo to get to know each other better.
*Exact Words: Shampoo can’t use the bracelets to cure Ranma because the person taking the curse must make a "sacrifice" in taking the curse. A woman would be unaffected by taking a curse to change to a woman so there is no sacrifice.
*Failure Is the Only Option: When Ranma tried to go back to China Shampoo quickly informed him that there is no cure.
*Fight Off the Kryptonite: Ranma walked through hundreds of cat’s to get to Shampoo.
*Fragile Speedster: Forgoing strength and just attacking as fast as she could is how Shampoo finally hit Akane.
*Green-Eyed Monster: This was the root cause of Shampoo and Akane’s rivalry. Shampoo was jealous that the village champion was paying more attention to an outsider then her.
*Hanlon's Razor: Soun eating the first prize met he was arrogant, stupid or misinformed; it turned out to be the later.
*Heel Realization: Shampoo after Akane fought off a bully for her.
*Heroic Sacrifice: Shampoo was willing to go on a date with Kuno to get him to leave Ranma-chan alone.
**Mousse was willing to take on Shampoo’s curse himself.
**Shampoo was willing to allow Ranma to use it instead.
**Ranma kissed Kuno so he wouldn’t ruin Akane and Ryoga’s date.
**Everyone was willing to do this to help free Shampoo.
***Well everyone except Nabiki and Genma
**Ultimately it was Akane who made it
*Heterosexual Life-Partners: Akane and Shampoo
*Hoist by His Own Petard: Akane was able to use the goodbye whirl to perform her wind techniques.
*How the Mighty Have Fallen: Shampoo went from the village champion to the village joke.
*Humiliation Conga: This happened to Shampoo after Soon Li started training Akane no matter what she did she couldn’t beat her. Afterward her confidence in herself was completely shot and she became a joke as nearly everyone in the village was now able to defeat her. When her parents found out they disowned her.
*I Am Not Left-Handed: When Akane couldn’t hit Ranma-chan she resorted to using the Wind Style
**Averted even after Nabiki tricked him into thinking she was a man Soon Li proved to be better then Soun.
*I Have No Son!: When Shampoo’s decrease in self confidence started affecting her skill her parents disowned her.
**Cologne disowned Shampoo after she got her curse.
*I Let You Win: Perfume did this so she could get away from Cologne.
**Soon Li thinks she may have involuntarily lowered her defenses during her fight with Soun allowing the pots to fall on her.
*Incredibly Lame Pun: Ranma made one when describing to Kuno how he met his sister.
:: Ranma: It is not a facade, and I did not seduce your sister Kuno! She just... I don't know... She was falling so I saved her. I guess you could say she fell for me.
*Innocently Insensitive: Mousse trying to cheer up Shampoo told her that he didn’t care if she was weak. Then jokingly said that it just made her easier to beat. This caused Shampoo to break down in tears at realizing how far she had fallen.
*Insane Troll Logic: After Shampoo poured water over Ranma so that Kuno would stop pursuing Ranma-Chan Kuno concluded that Ranma was disguising himself as a man and that the engagement between Akane and Shampoo was a batman gambit to protect their honor.
:: Ranma: Oh man!
:: Shampoo: I no think he THIS stupid!
*In Spite of a Nail: Akane and Ranma still started off on the wrong foot despite Akane knowing about Jusenkyo before hand.
*It's All About Me: Perfume was upset that Shampoo was trapped in her curse because that meant she’d have to marry Ranma.
*It's All My Fault: When Akane found out what happened to Shampoo she blamed herself for not realizing what was going on
*I Was Just Joking: When Ranma went to Tofu for advice because he couldn’t choose between Akane and Shampoo. Tofu jokingly said that Ranma could always flip a coin, and then stopped Ranma when he started to do just that.
*Jerkass Façade: Perfume revealed that Cologne let Akane win.
**Soon Li wasn’t really angry at Soun for eating the prize she just wanted to test him.
*Jerkass Has a Point: Shampoo agreed with Akane that Ranma was a jerk but pointed out that she did walk in on him.
*Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk: Cologne hasn’t seen her granddaughter in about six years and the first thing she does is give her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
*Kick the Dog: Cologne disowning Shampoo after she got her curse
*Laser-Guided Karma: Since Shampoo left the village shortly after defeating Perfume. No one was aware that she had regained her lost skill. So they thought Perfume just lost to a weakling.
**They also found out that she was a Fragile Speedster.
*Lethal Chef: Averted a life time of living with Shampoo and Soon Li has taught Akane how to cook.
*Loophole Abuse: Since Soun is only related to Cologne through marriage she has no say in him adopting Shampoo.
**Averted Cologne used Exact Words to prevent Soon-li from challenging her for the bracelet.
*Love Epiphany: Ranma while trying to cheer Shampoo up due to her nightmares and getting annoyed by the usual Tsundere.
:: Ranma: [What's with these two? Akane always getting angry with me and Shampoo won't talk to me. Ahhhh, why do I bother? It's not like I wanted this stupid engagement or nothing. {Pause}I'm sick of this! Why don't they just give me a break?] *sigh*
:: Shampoo: Hmmm?
:: Ranma: Nothing. [Why do I even care? {Pause}Nahhh, couldn't be. No way.]
*Murder the Hypotenuse: Played with Kodachi didn’t murder Shampoo but she did try and marry her off to the Bakeneko.
*Murder Is the Best Solution: Shampoo attempted to kill Akane after her parents disowned her as she blamed her for being unable to catch up.
*Must Have Caffeine: This is a key component in learning the Grand Lightning Punch
*My Greatest Failure: Mousse pushing Shampoo into the cat spring as it was what caused Cologne to disown her. He spent the rest of his life looking for a cure.
*My God, What Have I Done?: Soun upon realizing that Soon Li was a woman.
*Never My Fault: Cologne knew that Akane was receiving special training. Instead of training Shampoo herself she left it to her and when she couldn’t keep up and finally fell into a spring she couldn’t stand the dishonor.
*Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Shampoo’s efforts to get Kuno to leave Ranma alone ended up making the matter worse.
*No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Mousse tried to cheer Shampoo up and ended up accidentally pushing her into the spring of drowned cat.
*No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Akane delivered one to Ranma for calling her uncute
**Ranma delivered this to Genma after finding out about Ukyo.
*Noodle Incident: The Golden Pair challenged the NHL.
*Not-So-Harmless Villain: The Tendo’s saw Bakeneko as an annoyance, even after he succeeded, while furious they quickly forgot about him as they moved on to freeing Shampoo. That doesn’t change the fact that he did succeed.
*Paralysis by Analysis: This is why Shampoo’s skill dropped so severely after Akane defeated her. She kept second guessing herself and over thinking thus giving her opponent the advantage as she hesitates on every attack.
:: Soon Li: Don't be so hard on yourself. You've just had a terrible blow to your confidence and it's affecting your fighting abilities. You'll get over it.
*Reality Ensues: The Logical Weakness of the Amazonian Sink-or-Swim Mentor mindset is shown when Shampoo got the yips. If a person has no idea what their doing wrong unless you tell them no amount of training will help in fact it would just make the matter worse as Cologne’s Training from Hell just caused Shampoo to sink further and further into depression since she still wasn’t able to defeat Akane.
**Shampoo relied on her superiority to keep herself emotionally stable. So when she became unable to defeat Akane that stability was lost.
**Akane couldn’t use Blow You Away during the Martial Arts Skating match because there’s no traction.
*Refusal of the Call: Akane refused to accept Azusa’s challenge for Shampoo. She also stopped Ranma from challenging Mikado.
*Sadistic Choice: Who would perform the Heroic Sacrifice for Shampoo. Made all the more sadistic due to them doing it to themselves.
*Selective Enforcement: Eventhough both Nabiki and Genma backed out of making a Heroic Sacrifice for Shampoo Ranma was only mad at his father.
:: Ranma: Oh, shut up Pop! You're just weaseling out!
:: Genma: I am not. What about Nabiki?
:: Ranma: Just cause she's backing out doesn't make it right for you to do so.
*Sink-or-Swim Mentor: When Shampoo got the yips Cologne just left her to her own devices and when she didn’t get better she took her to jusenkyo to train by herself. When that ended in failure she disowned her.
*Stating the Simple Solution: Shampoo just showed Kuno Ranma’s curse so that he would stop trying to date her. Unfortunately it didn’t work.
*Super Speed: Grand Lightning Punch allows Shampoo to grab a handful of coins from pond without disturbing the water.
*Sweet Polly Oliver: Kuno thinks that Ranma is doing this after seeing him transform.
*Taking You with Me: Akane attempted this by using a Maximum Effect Vortex Punch to counter the Hiryu Shoten Ha. Since at least Shampoo would be cured.
*The Bully: Shampoo was this to Akane when she came to the village, repeatedly lording her skill and beating her up.
*The Cavalry Arrives Late: Soon-li Soun Genma Ryoga and Tofu arrived after the Bakaneko had already won.
*The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: When original Akane went back to the shop that she brought the bracelet from she found it gone and was told that the lot it was in had been vacant for two weeks.
*Time to Unlock More True Potential: Perfume had mastered the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken by the time she got back to Japan.
*Trickster Mentor: Soon Li helped Shampoo get over her confidence problem by having her teach Akane how to speak Chinese so that the two would hang out with each other more.
*Tsundere: Nabiki pointed out that Soon Li was no where near this hard on Shampoo when she leaned the Grand Lightning Punch as Shampoo is on Ranma.
*Walk on Water: Shampoo is fast enough to this.
*Woman Scorned: Perfume was not happy upon discovering the Mikado was The Casanova.
*Wouldn't Hit a Girl: A young Soun refused to fight Soon Li. It wasn’t until she knocked him for a loop and while he was dazed Nabiki tricked him into thinking that she was a man that he went all out.
==Most Unlikely of Friends OVA 2==
*A Date with Rosie Palms: Akane has a secret little toy in her bottom drawer she thinks no one knows. Though she is adamant that it was a gag gift.
*A Form You Are Comfortable With: Derek would do this when he wanted to talk to the characters first as the jewelry store owner who gave Akane and Shampoo the bracelets, and later as Ukyo and Nabiki when talking to Perfume.
*Ability Mixing: Cologne did this to send the original Perfume to the MOUF’s universe.
*Act of True Love: Ranma wore a bra to bribe Happosai into training Shampoo and Akane seriously. Though Soon Li did have to order him to do it as part of his house duties
*Adults Are Useless: Nabiki didn’t trust the opinion of the adult villagers since they tend to hold unreasonable grudges against rivals. Which is why she asked the younger ones.
*All of the Other Reindeer: Soon Li when she lived in the village. Many avoided her because of her ability, due to either fear or jealousy.
**While she understood why, Kurumi was still saddened by the fact that she and Natsumi weren’t invited to Kasumi’s bachelorette party.
*Alone in a Crowd: After Soun found out that Soon Li was pregnant he hugged Nabiki and Shampoo. As Genma, Nodoka, Ranma and Ryoga congratulated them Natsume sat by herself, unnoticed by anyone feeling more alone among all the noise and joy then she had ever felt while on the road.
*Always Someone Better: Natsume became depressed after her defeat by Akane.
*Analogy Backfire: When Soon Li went to Happosai to get him to take the training of Akane and Shampoo seriously. She stated that she didn’t want one side using sticks while the other is using swords. When explaining the escalating rivalry between them and Natsume and Kurumi. Happosai immediately pointed out the flaw in that analogy.
*And Then What?: Natsumi asked Kurumi what she would do if she was caught stealing food.
*And You Thought It Was a Game: When Happosai told them to attack him, since it was the same command they had been given for days, and Akane and Shampoo expected the same results, namely a really pointless chase after their master. He was quick to call them out for this.
*And You Were There: Soon Li had this reaction when the others finally managed to knock the bracelet from her hand.
*Anguished Declaration of Love: Soon Li gave one of these to Soun while informing him of the Councils decision to uphold the law.
*Armor-Piercing Question: Zhao Mi gave Soon Li one of these getting her to realize that Hope Is Scary.
:: Zhao Mi: Are you telling me the great Soon Li is afraid to face her own emotions?
:: Soon Li: Well, maybe I am.
**“What are you afraid of anyway” said by Original Perfume to Nabiki
*Armor-Piercing Response: When Ranma asked why he was The Scapegoat for everyone the newly arrived Soon Li gave this response.
:: Soon Li: Perhaps young man because your attitude invites accusations.
*Awesome, but Impractical: The Happo-Fire-Blast is an incredibly powerful Having a Blast technique, however it is also incredibly draining. Happosai developed the Happo-Fire-Burst to compensate for the severe drain the attack causes.
**Natsume was able to call up extra reserves of energy to finish Shampoo off. However this turned out to be Power at a Price and she refused to use it and thus passed out from exhaustion.
*Bad Dreams: Soon Li started having these after the one from her original Universe counterpart put on the bracelet.
*Bad Liar: Nabiki told Soun that he is as transparent as glass due to his ability to feign interest in something, or rather his inability to do so.
*Bait-and-Switch: Akane and Natsume agreeing that they no longer wanted to go along with their rivalry. Shampoo and Kurumi perked up with hope upon hearing this, only to drop their heads when they didn’t see it going away.
*Barrier Warrior: Happosai has a technique that allows him to surround himself with a sphere of energy and rapidly expand it like a shockwave.
**Natsume’s ice barrier
**Soon Li can do this as well creating a barrier to protect the observers from the collateral damage of the battle.
*Be Careful What You Wish For: When Perfume learned that she was the strongest in the village in the MOUF universe she wondered if she should use the bracelet
**She quickly learned that being the best definitely was not what it was cracked up to be.
*Because Destiny Says So: This is why Soon Li from the original universe found her way to Nerima as it was the course fate had chosen for her.
*Bedmate Reveal: Averted Natsume and Akane were to hung-over to think of the implications of finding Perfume and Nabiki together
*Beneath the Mask: Although Cologne's face betrayed none of the emotions she was feeling, she was thoroughly amazed, and perplexed that Kurumi was able to master the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken on her first try.
*BFS: The Black Dragon
*Birds of a Feather: Soon Li sympathesized with Shampoo for being the village champion of her age group knowing how such a title invoked all the other reindeers.
*Body Snatcher: The Original Perfume to this one
*Brilliant, but Lazy: Happosai really doesn't like work. Heck, he loathes it. Whenever possible he will avoid it, especially when he has the prospect of a little fun from an alternative activity. Training Akane and Shampoo is no exception.
*Broken Pedestal: Soon Li was extremely hurt upon meeting Kurumi and Natsume. Not only had Soun kept such a huge secret from her, but his own children and likely his first wife. What was worse he’d abandoned two daughters.
*Bullying a Dragon: When Akane told the American soldier to stop hitting on Natsume he threatened to hit her only to be curb stomped by Shampoo.
*But I Can't Be Pregnant!: Soon Li was believed to be sterile so it was a big shock to discover that she was pregnant.
*But I Would Really Enjoy It: Shampoo to Ranma who wants to wait after they are married.
*Calling the Old Man Out: Knowing that Happosai was just toying with Akane and Shampoo when they went to him for training. Soon Li eventually went to him to tell him to take the situation seriously.
*The Cameo: Guile and Keiko show up during Kasumi’s Stag Party and end up joining in on the Bar Brawl.
*Cannot Spit It Out: Ranma finally tells Shampoo that he loves her. He was so embarrassed that he ended up giving an Anguished Declaration of Love.
*Cassandra Truth: Ryoga from the original universe was explaining to a furious Ranma that Akane just disappeared before Cologne showed up to confirm his story.
**Soun swears that he is not Kurumi and Natsumi’s father
*Cast from Calories: Kurumi’s speed, she never noticed because she’s always hungry, but is always using her speed as well.
*Cast From Stamina: This is what caused Cologne to initially want to train Kurumi and Natsumi. Super Speed techniques all rely on either a burst of adrenalin or a deeper tapping of one's own chi. Yet this trope is the one certainty. Kurumi averts this however able to maintain high levels of speed for extended periods of time.
*Child Prodigy: Soon Li discovered her strange talent for martial arts at the age of five. She snapped up anything she saw as useful to her skills and soon was able to hold her own against even the villages greatest. This is what caught Cologne's interest.
*Combat Pragmatist: AAADTG’s main doctrine is, `do whatever it takes'. Dignity just gets in the way.
**Genma started resorting to the Saotome Underhanded Secret Techniques when Ranma skill in the Lightning style became too much for him.
*Combined Energy Attack: The original Ranma and Ryoga did this in an attempt to knock the friendship bracelet out of Soon Li’s hand.
*Cover-Blowing Superpower: Kurumi’s Super Speed Soun couldn’t possibly know such a potent technique, thus he couldn’t have been the one to teach her, thus he couldn’t be her father.
*Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Natsumi did this to Kurumi when he stripper revealed himself.
*Covert Pervert: While finding Perfume looking through her room Nabiki did an inventory of what she might find, which included magazines, Rule 34, and erotic friend fiction.
*Crazy Enough to Work: Akane felt this way about going to Happosai for training even though Shampoo saw it as a Fate Worse than Death.
*Critical Research Failure: It’s clear that Wade was writing Natsume and Kurumi mostly from memory.
*Cursed With Awesome: The Defence Mechanism Superpower of the Four Masters. After it first happened the destruction was such that for several thousand years, whenever the four appeared with these talents they were immediately destroyed before they could mature.
*Cycle of Revenge: Averting this along with Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! is the reason Cologne didn’t kill Bu for exposing her ruse to get Ukyo to marry Perfume.
*Damn You, Muscle Memory!: While the original Perfume can’t perform MUOF’s Perfume’s skill consciously she can do it instinctively.
*Date Peepers: Ukyo did this to Nabiki and Mousse.
*A Date with Rosie Palms: The Original Perfume found some magazines Nabiki’s room. A girl had a right to satisfy her curiosity after all.
*Death Glare: Soon Li gave Ranma one when he said that House Work was women’s work.
:: Akane: Your first LOOK_ Ranma. Remember it. Fear it. Avoid it in the future.
*Didn't Think This Through: Ranma challenging Kurumi himself so Akane and Shampoo wouldn’t have to fight.
*Double Knockout: How Akane and Kurumi dealt with each other.
*Dual Age Modes: The Amazon’s have a chi technique that allows them to restore their youth. It's only temporary, about twenty minutes tops and only two of the elders know it. Cologne is one of them, the other is Cao Lon.
*Energy Absorption: She has learned to tap into certain energy forms that naturally flowed into the body, like electricity.
*Even Evil Has Standards: Happosai finally started taking his training of Shampoo and Akane seriously upon seeing Cologne teaching Natsume and Kurumi such powerful techniques without teaching them self-restraint as well.
**Played with Happosai was honored to be the minister for Shampoo and Ranma’s wedding. No one would refuse to be involved in a sacred ceremony, uniting two families and bring together a loving couple. It also meant that he couldn’t be kicked out and there would probably be a lot of girls there.
*Everyone Can See It: Practically everyone in the village who knew Soon Li could tell that she was developing feelings for Soun.
**Averted it took her being drugged for Mousse to realize that Nabiki had feelings for Perfume. No one else had realized it.
*Fighting from the Inside: Perfume attempted to do this unfortunately the medallion the Original Perfume wore protected her.
*Fire-Forged Friends: Natsume and Akane got along far better after their Bar Brawl.
*Flaw Exploitation: Cologne specifically trained Natsume on how to exploit the weaknesses of the Wind Style.
*Flight: Akane can do this after her training with Happosai using a modification of the Bean Jam Blow Out
*Friend to All Children: Pretty much all of the younger generation thought that Soon Li was the best. The few that did have anything bad to say about her were mostly due to parental bias.
*Friendly Rivalry: Despite her many defeats by Soon Li Zhao Mi always cheerfully continued
*Gag Penis: It’s implied that Tofu is this given Kasumi’s comment about the stripper.
*Heel Realization: Soon Li for taking so long to notice the heated rivalry developing between Akane and Natsume.
*Here We Go Again!: Averted Shampoo’s experience at the village has caused her to stop carrying about titles. So she wasn’t really that concerned upon learning that Cologne was training Natsume and Kurumi to defeat her and Akane as the title of heir didn’t matter to her. note She also never really expected to take over the dojo always assuming that it would be Akane.
*Heroic BSoD: Akane after her learning that Cologne was training Natsume and Kurumi to defeat her and Shampoo making them the heirs.
*Hideous Hangover Cure: Averted with Hazumi’s special brew
*History Repeats: Averting this is why Happosai started training Shampoo and Akane seriously.
*Honey Trap: After Shampoo left the village Mousse befriended Perfume getting her to drop her guard enough so that he was able to convince her to go with him to Jusenkyo. While he was able to stop him from pushing her into the spring of drowned cat. In order to stop him from dropping her into another spring she told the children he had brought to see her humiliation about her hypersensitive nervous system.
**Mousse then dropped her anyway luckily it was a virgin spring.
*Hostage for MacGuffin: The prisoner unleashed by Soon Li, Akane, and Shampoo held Nabiki in exchange for his sword, the Black Dragon.
*Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball: Bu created this to be used as armor
*I Hate Past Me: Mousse is truly ashamed of how cruel and clueless he was as a child.
*I Have This Friend...: Nabiki went to Soon Li for help with her feeling for Perfume. However she was incredibly nervous and seeing this Soon Li said she could use this trope.
*Idol Singer: Yuuka seems to be this.
*Implied Death Threat: Cologne pointed out to Ukyo the possible consequences to Perfume if Ukyo didn’t agree to marry her.
*Incompatible Orientation: Mousse is afraid of this between him and Ukyo when she used going on a date with Perfume as cover for being a Date Peepers.
**Perfume and Ukyo
*Indy Ploy: Mousse playing the matchmaker between Perfume and Nabiki by causing an accident.
*Innocently Insensitive: Kasumi commenting that the stripper hired for her bachelorette party seemed small for a professional.
*Insane Troll Logic: Genma’s attempt at trying to convince Nodoka not to force him and Ranma to commit Seppuku. After all, what better way to stand out among men than being a woman.
*Insatiable Newlyweds: Played with as they weren’t newlyweds yet, but when Kasumi moved in with Dr Tofu so that the two could have some alone time together. Soon Li told her not to do anything crazy then sarcastically said she believed her when Kasumi answered that, that wasn’t what she met.
*Instant Expert: Soon Li learned the Storm Style from just the few hints given in the scrolls it was contained in.
*Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja: Nabiki sometimes found some of the ninja style tricks of the Anything goes school to be useful.
*Irony: The original Perfume thought of Lotion as a sort of Pair the Spares situation when she is usually depicted as The Lost Lenore.
*Jerkass: The American soldier on shore leave who refused to stop hitting on Natsume.
*Jerkass Has a Point: Bu pointing out why Cologne’s treat of the consequences to Perfume if Ukyo didn’t agree to marry her was a lie. While she is a Glass Cannon she is still the village’s best warrior so the council would be more inclined to go easy on her then deliver a harsh punishment.
**While Akane was upset at Natsume and Kurumi for claiming to be Soun’s illegitimate daughters she did have a point about them trying to lay claim to the dojo.
***She’d worked her whole life to be good enough to carry on the dojo. Unlike shampoo who she grew up with they showed up out of no where to take the dojo, no questions asked.
***Natsume was able to defeat akane through Flaw Exploitation, however an outside challenger wouldn’t have those same flaws making training to specifically fight the wind style more of a liability then anything else.
**While Nabiki didn’t invite Natsume and Kurumi to the bachelorette party due to the families current issues with the two. However she did order a stripper which Kurumi is to young to see.
*Kleptomaniac Hero: Due to her Hyperactive Metabolism Kurumi regularly steals food.
*Knew It All Along: Soon Li was already aware of Nabiki’s feelings for Perfume.
:: Soon Li: If I let on about every little thing I'm aware of, everyone would get all defensive around me.
*Laser-Guided Karma: Ranma refused to help with the house work or become a waitress because it was woman’s work. In response Soon Li made him take over all of Kasumi’s duties
*Late to the Punchline: Kasumi when Nabiki gave her a red negligee and told her it was for those cold nights together with Tofu.
*Lightning Bruiser: Kurumi after training with Cologne
*Like Mother, Like Daughter: According to Happosai Kimiko was very much like Akane.
*Little "No": Soon Li flat out refused to tape Ranma and Shampoo’s wedding night for Happosai to get info on her curse.
*Logical Weakness: Illusions can only go so far in mimicking the real thing. They lack substance, so they don't displace any air while moving. By feeling for that you can determine the real from the fake.
*Loophole Abuse: Since Soon Li was about to leave the village anyway she could of just ignored the law about the kiss of marriage.
**Nodoka was willing to let Ranma off the hook when Shampoo came to his defense, but not Genma.
***However she was willing to wait to hear the full list of his transgression.
**Nabiki said she would find someone for Perfume she never specified that she couldn’t be that someone. Funnily enough the one who pointed this out was Ukyo not Nabiki.
*Love Epiphany: Nabiki had this while effected by 615B
*Master of Illusion: Natsume after learning the blizzard technique.
*Might Makes Right: Natsume came to the conclusion that the reason she and Kurumi weren’t accepted by Soun was because they weren’t a match for Shampoo and Akane.
*Mind Hive: This eventually happens to Perfume and the Original
*Misplaced Retribution: Once everyone found out about Akane and Shampoo’s Shared Dream they immediately became angry at Ranma for being engaged to Shampoo in them.
*Moral Dilemma: After learning the truth Soun couldn’t decide whether or not to tell Natsume and Kurumi
*My Way or the Highway: Cologne gave Perfume this ultimatum. If she uses the friendship bracelets to bring Akane and Shampoo back she can stay in Japan as long as she wants. If she doesn’t Cologne will personally take her back to the village as well as inform them of her being a Dirty Coward.
*Mystical Pregnancy: Played with Soon Li was sterile so this was the only explanation Tofu could come up with for why she could suddenly become pregnant.
*Never Live It Down: Cologne explained that Perfume being a Glass Cannon is why she would sufferer far more then she should if Ukyo didn’t agree to marry her.
*Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Soon Li, Akane and Shampoo once accidentally freed a prisoner while sparing.
*Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Soon Li feels that all the excitement of having to deal with Happosai is what helped her get pregnant.
*No-Sell: The prisoner freed was a monster of a man who stood nearly 9 feet tall, and had endurance enough to shrug off even Soon Li's best efforts.
*Not So Stoic: Soon Li suddenly started to feel her self consciousness return upon learning that Nabiki had asked around the village about her before playing The Matchmaker.
*Oh, Crap!: Genma started to panic when Soon Li informed him she wanted to help in the search for Nodoka.
**Genma and Soun when Happosai remembered how to use Happo-Fire-Burst
**This was Akane and Shampoo’s reaction when they realized that Natsume and Kurumi where using their abilities to create a Hiryu Shoten Ha
*Old Friend: Hazumi and Yuuka were friends of Kasumi when they were in China
*One Dialogue, Two Conversations: When they first met Mousse told Shampoo that he wanted to be with her forever'. He was asking her to marry her but she took it as him asking to be her friend. So when she rejected him the next day he took it as a Parental Marriage Veto when they just told her what he actually met.
*Open-Minded Parent: Soon Li in contrast with Soun’s Overprotective Dad.
*Operation: Jealousy: Not knowing why Ukyo claimed she was on a date with Perfume after being caught spying on her and Mousse. Nabiki figured she was doing this.
*Out-of-Character Alert: Happosai telling Akane and Shampoo that they were about to get serious with a rare determination.
*Parental Marriage Veto: Averted Soon Li felt that it wasn’t her place to pick who her step daughters are interested in.
*Parental Abandonment: Soon Li’s adopted parents afraid of her unnatural skill agreed to let Cologne train her on the condition that she take Soon Li as her own daughter.
**This was Natsuma’s first thought upon meeting Nabiki that had relations with more than one woman, one her and Kunumi's mother, the other the mother of these other girls. Finding it disturbing that her and her sister were the ones left behind.
**Averted Natsuma refused to allow herself to come to this conclusion. Opting to think that daddy had a good reason to abandon you.
*Parental Sexuality Squick: Averted Akane popped her head into her parents room only to see Soun hugging Soon Li (after he found out she was pregnant who was topless (she took her shirt off to see if she was showing) and immediately started backing out. The two were quick to explain what was going on causing her to hug Soon Li as well.
*Pet the Dog: Cologne took a real risk taking Soon Li in and teaching her. There are lots of people who would have killed Soon Li the instant they knew what she was, and they would not have looked kindly on anyone who had offered her shelter.
*Politically Incorrect Hero: The very thought of a girl being with another girl made Natsuma's stomach turn. Fortunately she has enough self control to keep how much to herself.
*Properly Paranoid: Ever since receiving her vision of the other dimension Shampoo has had a feeling that something would go wrong.
*Pyrrhic Victory: The last challenger Kimiko faced was incredibly powerful. Kimiko won, but not without some serious injuries. While she seemingly recovered completely, unfortunately this proved not to be the case. It took time, but finally they claimed her.
*Random Events Plot: This is essentially how you train to master the Art of Chaos after rolling a 12 sided dice you just do whatever the number it lands on dictates.
*Reality Ensues: Genma was forced to tell Ranma why he couldn’t see his mother once his and Shampoo’s relationship started to advance. As Ranma wanted his mother to be at his wedding.
**While Nabiki’s never been up to Shampoo and Akane’s level in the martial arts as she never really developed the interest they had in it. However as a member of a martial artist family it was impossible for her not to pick up a skill here and there.
**Unlike with a single thunderclap punch where he has learned to toughen up his eardrum, the rapid fire fisticuff version is just too noisy for Ranma to handle.
**Cologne is as perplexed as everyone else about Akane and Shampoo’s disappearance.
**After transferring her memories into her body the original Perfume can match anything her host could do physically however since she didn’t personally experience the training her skill is an entirely different matter.
**Kurumi was able to easily defeat Ranma. She is being specifically trained to fight the Lightning Style and Shampoo is still far better at it then Ranma.
*Relationship Upgrade: Kodachi and Bu
*Revenge Before Reason: Averted Cologne didn’t kill bu
**Played straight later when she sent Perfume after him.
*Right for the Wrong Reasons: While yelling at Genma for taking Ranma to Jusenkyo she mentioned that given this she wouldn’t be surprised if he sold him for food.
*Schmuck Bait: Ukyo received the dragon bracelet as a gift and immediately thought it was from Ranma. Despite the fact that he had never given her anything before.
**Original Perfume used this against Nabiki to get her to admit her feeling
*Secret Relationship: Ukyo and Mousse were keeping their relationship secret to the point where she let him go on a date with Nabiki.
**Played with she just wanted to see how he would act on a date.
*Sex Dressed: When Nabiki,Shampoo, and Akane went to pick up Kasumi for her bachelorette party she opened the door in a robe complaining that they were early, and when they went to help her pick out cloths they noticed her bed hadn’t been slept in. However only Nabiki seemed to figure it out.
:: Nabiki: Guess the perfume worked.
*Ship Sinking: Perfume was the one who Mousse most associated with what happened to Shampoo. So in an effort to get her back by making her feel the same humiliation that Shampoo had felt, he used a Honeytrap to reveal to the village her sensitive nervous system.
*Shoot the Dog: Mousse’s cruel revenge on Perfume for her connection in Shampoo being disowned. Not only did he threatened to curse her if she didn’t reveal her weakness, he dropped her anyway after she did, while it turned out to be a virgin spring it was still a horrifying experience for her.
*Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Perfume applied formula 612B only for it to effect Nabiki instead of Ukyo due to the fact the was down wind. When Ukyo finally turned around and became effected she ended up giving Perfume a the reason you suck speech for continuing to pursue her despite how many times she told her she wasn’t interested. Followed by Nabiki giving the relationship reveal between her and Mousse.
*Shout-Out: Bu referred to Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball he created as Flubber
*Simple Staff: Natsume fights with one of these.
**Natsume fights with this instead of a carpet beater
*Simple, yet Awesome: Natsume became An Ice Person and a Master of Illusion while she only learned those two techniques it was enough to defeat Akane in a Curb-Stomp Battle.
*Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Seeing the loving relationships between Shampoo and Ranma, Akane and Ryoga, and Kasumi and Dr. Tofu caused Nabiki to seek more in a significant other then just finances.
*Soldier vs. Warrior: The American soldiers that wandered into the bar during Kasumi’s bachelerette party vs the party goers.
*Spanner in the Works: After her Love Epiphany Nabiki went to the Nekohanten, expecting to finally deal with the Perfume situation, planned on her trying something and then dealing with it. However since Perfume had been replaced with the original who didn’t want to ruin the budding relationship she just went about her work.
*Speaks Fluent Animal: Averted despite their curses Shampoo and Akane can’t make anything out of the other's meows
*Stag Party: Kasumi had one which ended with a bar brawl
*Stating the Simple Solution: When Kasumi told Soon Li of her plans to move in with Dr Tofu she also reminded her that Ranma and Genma lived at the dojo so they could help with the chores.
**With Cologne's training Natsuma and Kunumi to defeat Akane and Shampoo they needed to figure out where they could get some totally original training that she didn't know about. Nabiki pointed them to Happosai.
*Stripper/Cop Confusion: Intentionally invoked by Nabiki during Kasumi’s bachelorette party.
*Super Senses: Soon Li can distinguish the various different smells in her restaurant.
**Perfume as well due to being a sentinel
*Switching P.O.V.: OVA 2 showed the meeting between Soon Li and the Tendo’s from Soon Li’s perspective.
*Take a Third Option: Soun opted to not tell the full truth. He made sure they knew he wasn’t there father but didn’t tell them about Happosai, he also adopted them like he did with Shampoo.
*Tall Poppy Syndrome: Back in the village Soon Li and Shampoo had little to no friends. The other villagers avoided them due to either fear of humiliation of jealousy of their skill. While Soon Li had not only the maturity to deal with it, but also a few friendly rivals. Shampoo was still far too young to handle it maturely and her only real friend was Mousse, who failed to realize that was all they were. In response she became an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy to fill that void of loneliness. Unfortunately all of the negative connotations associated with this trope make failure the only option. It was that very position of superiority that started her problems and she just increased its potency.
*Teleporters and Transporters: Happosai taught Shampoo this technique it works similar to the Hidden Weapon technique.
*The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Nabiki is the matchmaker yet can’t seem to find anyone for herself.
*The Reveal: Cologne got all her info of Soon Li’s curse from Happosai
**Happosai dropped a photo of him with a younger Natsume and Kurumi when Cologne attacked him for his Unsportsmanlike Gloating.
*The Scapegoat: Upon finding out about Akane and Shampoo’s Shared Dream everyone blamed Ranma for their disappearance due to the fact that he was engaged to Shampoo in them.
**The original Perfume was this since she was the one Cologne sent if she failed she not Cologne would be the one blamed.
*The Schizophrenia Conspiracy: Perfume from the original universe used the friendship bracelet to transfer her mind to the perfume of this universe leading to a temporary Loss of identity as she experienced two completely different memories, before the original perfume took over. The original Akane and Shampoo were transferred to this universe so she had to get them to wear the bracelets to send them back.
*Thicker Than Water: Shampoo delayed her wedding(and her honeymoon) so that she could train with Akane to defeat Natsume and Kurumi.
*This Explains So Much: Soon Li realized that her being pregnant was why she suddenly had so much trouble keeping her anger in check.
*This Is Gonna Suck: Akane when she learned what training to master the Art of Chaos entailed.
*This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: This was Soon Li’s opinion about Nabiki’s relationship with Perfume. Though she did help her sort out her issues.
*Time to Unlock More True Potential: After her defeat by Natsume Akane focused her efforts on learning the Wind School
*Too Dumb to Live: Averted for a second the original Perfume was tempted to pick up the bracelet after it was finally knocked out of Soon Li’s hand, but managed to stop herself.
*Took a Level in Jerkass: Cologne was actually shown to be a reasonable authority figure in OVA 2 going so far as to encourage Soon Li’s relationship with Soun.
*Tranquil Fury: Akane after meeting Natsume and Kurumi. While she seemed alright, even cordial she was fuming and ready to take her anger out on them.
**Nodoka remains perfectly calm up to the moment of the attack.
*Understanding Boyfriend: When Shampoo went to Ranma to tell him that they had to postpone the wedding, while upset once she told him that it was so that she could train to defeat Natsume and Kurumi he was perfectly understanding. Even teasing her for her comments about his and Ryoga’s Bash Brothers relationship.
*Unsportsmanlike Gloating: Happosai to Cologne when his students won
*Victory by Endurance: Averted while Kurumi’s heightened metabolism meant that she would eventually fatigue out once her reserves were drained. Shampoo couldn’t hope to compete with the sheer magnitude of energy that metabolism produced so would end up tiring far quicker if she tried this trope.
**Played straight overall while she couldn’t move Shampoo was that last of the four to remain conscious.
*"Well Done, Son!" Guy: Natsume wants Soun to notice her fueling her hatred of Akane and Shampoo
*What Did I Do Last Night?: Akane doesn’t remember anything after the Bar Brawl. She ended up getting a tattoo.
*What the Hell, Hero?: Zhao Mi eventually called Soon Li out for trying to run from her feeling for Soun.
**Nabiki and Ukyo to Mousse upon finding out why Perfume hated him.
**Ukyo called Mousse out for manipulating events so that Perfume and Nabiki would fall off the side of a cliff so that Nabiki would have a Love Epiphany.
*Would Hit a Girl: The soldiers showed no hesitation in attacking a group of women.
*You Can't Fight Fate: Every time Soon Li from the original universe tried to go somewhere other then Nerima something happened to put her back on course.
*You Haveto Believe Me: Soun trying to convince Soon Li and his daughters that he knew nothing about Kurumi and Natsume.
*You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry: Averted making Soon Li angry does little more then disturb her element.
*You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Derek told this to the Original Perfume
**Nabiki told this to Perfume while affected by 612B.
==Most Unlikely of Friends OVA 3==
*A God Am I: Shamna realized that thinking to much in human terms was holding her back.
*Achilles' Heel: The only way to stop the spirits is to kill all four of them all at once. Their bodies are still human, so it is possible. Unfortunately they are Nigh-Invulnerability so it takes incredible force to bypass their defense.
*Adam and Eve Plot: Ti Lo jokingly told Ukyo that they were in this.
*Adaptation Personality Change: The original Bu still views himself as male but is far more comfortable with his original gender then his counterpart.
*Adaptation Name Change: Tae-il was originally named Ti Lo in the earlier version of MUOF, but was renamed to Tae-il to conform to a real Korean name.
*Adult Fear: When Kodachi drugged Bu his only thought was to hope she wasn’t a serial killer.
*Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Ryoga when confronted by Akane about P-Chan
*All Just a Dream: Averted when instead of awakening to find the memories of the world she knew fading and being replaced with ones of a world she had come to dread, they remained at full strength. Shampoo concluded this trope was in play only for that to be proven false.
*All There in the Manual: The power Ranma has that the Original Soon Li was referring to is the fact he is a Nexus.
*All Your Powers Combined: Deconstructing this is why Ranma-chan was needed to take the Anti-Magic field instead of Ranma-kun. As the original Ranma he was apart Tae-il so hurting her effectively hurt himself. But, if he blasted Ranma-kun it wouldn't have made any difference.
*Always Someone Better: While Ranma was the first to notice the obvious signs that this wasn’t there Akane and Shampoo. Soon Li had noticed the much more subtle signs of her training.
*Anthropomorphic Personification: Tae-il is the planetary spirit
**Shamne is described as a living, humanoid storm
*Anti-Climax: Since he couldn’t sense her wear about Tae-il and the others had to look for Soon Li the hard way only to spot her the moment they left the Nekohanten.
*Anti-Magic: After the planetary spirit within Soon Li awoken she letting off so much power that it played havoc with the local magic fields. This included preventing Ranma from activating his curse or transforming back to his true form.
**Actually it turned out to be Tae-il’s doing
**Soon Li can disrupt the link between the spirit and the avatar, but the bubble of disruption must be placed on a person so that they can grab hold onto Tae-il. The field is permanent, and since it is set to disrupt Tae-il, who is a creature of magic, it will also render the individual exposed to the field invulnerable to magic of all forms.
*At Least I Admit It: Nabiki when Ranma called her and the fathers’ cowards for not stopping Akane form cooking.
*Audience Surrogate: Ranma-kun acts as this by rushing in to rescue Shampoo it allows the confusing situation that he just jumped head first into to be explained to him.
**You can see this in contrast with Ranma-chan while still not fully aware of what is going on it is her universe, she’s been of the thick of thinks so she does have at least some knowledge of what is going on. So upon learning of what the ultimate technique she panicked at the thought of what could happen to Akane while Ranma-kun accepted that there was nothing they could do.
*Barrier Warrior: Tae-il not only is able to create force fields to block attacks but bubbles of force to surround his opponents allowing them to be cooked within by the full fury of his power.
*Bat Deduction: Ranma-chan had to do this in order to reach her Eureka Moment, by going through all the nonsense Derek told her to figure out what he actually meant.
*Batman Gambit: Averted when Nabiki told Akane about P-Chan. She and Shampoo were quickly able to figure out what she was doing and she was able to keep her anger in check.
*Believing Their Own Lies: No one believed the Original Ranma’s claim that Akane and Shampoo were actually from his universe, but Soon Li knew the he at least believed it.
*Betrayal by Inaction: Ranma-chan felt this way about her inability to help during Shamna and Tae-I’s fight.
*Big Damn Heroes: Akane showing up right after Tae-il No-Sell Shampoo Original Ranma and Cologne’s attacks
*Big "WHAT?!": Ranma’s reaction when Derek let slip that there is a universe where he ends up with Mousse.
**Ukyo when told she woke up to a Ghost Planet
*Bishōnen: Ukyo described Ti Lo as well built, dashing, and generally the kind of guy any sane girl would die to have as her husband.
*Blatant Lies: Nabiki gave one to try and get out of eating Akane’s cooking, but she wasn’t buying it.
*Blood Knight: Tae-il’s Superpowered Evil Side demanded that Shampoo test her skill as Soon Li’s student and refused to take no for an answer.
*Both Sides Have a Point: The Original Shampoo’s pursuit of Ranma is discussed in universe by MOUF Shampoo. While Ranma is engaged to Akane he’s never said he loved her and given the Belligerent Sexual Tension she wouldn’t have a high opinion on the compatibility of the two. She might even, in a purely outsider's view kind of way, think Akane is kind of cruel. She doesn't live with Akane, is a romantic rival for Ranma, and has only known her for a short time. So of course she’d have a real low opinion of Akane.
*But Now I Must Go: Ranma-chan realized she wasn’t meant to go to the other universe with the others and despite Akane trying to talk her out of it she opted to not fight fate.
*Chivalrous Pervert: Tae-il is a Nice Guy who doesn’t hide his lecherous nature.
**It was hinted that he was with prostitutes before coming to Nerima.
**After learning of Ranma’s Love Dodecahedron he suggested he Marry Them All.
**Bu sees being able to bath with other girls the only fringe benefit he gets from his original form. Technically he’s a girl so he gets official sanction to get into all these forbidden places.
*Combat Pragmatist: It is tradition among the Amazons to pass down techniques and styles only to the descendants of their own line, not to other families. It keeps the village from having only one set of styles with which someone must deal with. Each family has its own distinctive styles and techniques all its own, and only rarely are those techniques let out of the family.
*Confirmation Bias: Shampoo in her defense of the original to Ranma. While she started off making some good points they became less so as the conversation moved on.
*Contrived Coincidence: Shampoo eventually noticed how all of the original counterparts are showing up in Nerima leading to a Eureka Moment that Bu Xiang might be there as well.
*"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Derek gave the Original Ranma a pletera of things he could have done to make his situation better using For Want of a Nail.
*Covert Pervert: Nabiki hide her intimate notes in the same place as her counterpart. Perfume was surprised by how dirty they were.
*Chronic Hero Syndrome: Above all else Ranma is a hero when it looked like Shampoo was being attacked by a crazed Soon Li he didn’t hesitate to run to her rescue.
*Cruel Mercy: Instead of allowing Mousse to take Shampoo back to the nekohaten Cologne had him tend to Perfume. Both because she doesn’t speak Japanese, and Shampoo having been taken from her original universe would not be in a good mood when she woke up, and that mixed with his usual manner of behavior about her, might just get him killed, or at the least put in the hospital.
*Cruel to Be Kind: Akane’s "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the Original Ranma was meant to get him to realize that they weren’t going to get together.
*Cryptically Unhelpful Answer: When Ranma asked Derek if what Shampoo said about her counterpart intentionally not killing her was true he gave him a speech about him seeing universes more plentiful than there are atoms composing this whole dimension where she Shampoo makes different decisions. Leaving Ranma uncertain if he had been given an answer or not.
*Curb-Stomp Battle: Ranma is simply no match for Shampoo.
*Curb Stomp Cushion: Downplayed while Ranma’s Moka Takabashi took more out of Shampoo then she was willing to admit she was still recovering from her fight with Natsume and Kurumi.
*Cursed With Awesome: Ranma-kun had an Anti-Magic field placed on him which would prevent his curse from activating.
**Averted as Ranma-chan took it instead.
*Deadpan Snarker: The original Bu certainly has a dry wit.
*Death Glare: Ranma and Mousse as the Original Ranma explained what happened.
*Deconstructed Trope: The story does this for both Clueless Chick Magnet and Ladykiller in Love by pointing out the frustration this causes to the women themselves as Ranma nature and actions means there is actually no clue that there advances aren’t wanted other then his mild frustrations. When he finally admitted to Shampoo that he did indeed love Akane her response was that he could have made it more obvious.
*Defiant to the End: Akane and Shampoo fought tooth and nail not to be transported to the original universe not only placing havoc on the Void, but allowing them be completely transported instead of just their consciousness.
*Determinator: Deconstructed with Ranma’s refusal to let Akane and Shampoo go back to their original universe.
**Later Mousse was determined to join the fight against Tae-il to rescue Shampoo even after being told that it was suicidal, his presence would be nothing more then a detriment to the people already there, and being given a better option of how save her he refused to budge. It reached the point where Soon Li seriously contemplated just killing him and would have if she still didn’t have control over the spirit.
*Die or Fly: Unlike her original counterpart Soon Li isn’t aware of the true power of the Storm Style. The original Soon Li fought an opponent who in his effort to destroy her brought out the power with which she annihilated him.
*Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: When Ukyo jokingly said If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her... to Nabiki she almost blurted out what Perfume had done to her before catching herself.
*Didn't See That Coming: Played with Derek did think that Akane and Shampoo might be fully transported he just didn’t realize how much damage it would cause.
*Didn't Think This Through: Ukyo going to Mousse’s aid when he started to push Soon Li past her Rage Breaking Point.
*Die or Fly: Unlike her original counterpart Soon Li isn’t aware of the true power of the Storm Style. The original Soon Li fought an opponent who in his effort to destroy her brought out the power with which she annihilated him.
*Dirty Coward: When Akane woke and was furious that they had hidden the bracelets Genma and Soun immediately pushed Ranma into her path.
**Then when Akane flew off to find Shampoo they demanded he go after her saying it was time he take some responsibility for his fiancée.
*Distinction Without a Difference: The Anti-Magic field Ranma-chan produces doesn’t lock her curse it just makes it so it is no longer able to function, so the end result is pretty much the same.
*Divine Assistance: Derek and Serena set up a Meet Cute between Kodachi and Bu Xien however given their Mad Love it went about as well as can be expected.
*Does This Remind You of Anything?: The original Ranma and Akane are essentially going through a Foot-Dragging Divorcee.
*Double Standard Rape, Female on Male: Shampoo doesn’t see anything wrong with using magic to induced love. She even compared it to Ranma stopping Akane from swallowing the Love Pill.
:: Shampoo: can understand force being a bad thing when you are hurting someone or taking away something, but why in this instance?
**Ultimately averted however
:: Shampoo: I mean, I am sorry about all that. That you two didn't get along... and for the things she did. They may have seemed okay to her, but they weren't. No excuses change that. It is your life, your choices, not hers to make for you. It is not for her to say who you should love, and not for her to make you fear for your life, whatever 'duty', 'law', or 'honor' says. So, for that I am sorry, and I apologize to you as she is in a sense me.
*Double Standard Rape, Female on Female: Perfume blackmailed Nabiki into having sex with her using knowledge she gained from the other universe and not if she enjoyed it justification.
*Double Take: Soon Li suddenly noticed her brother’s presence while talking to Shampoo confusing later.
*Dramatically Missing the Point: While Exact Eavesdropping an argument between Akane and the original Ranma about him being a Hopeless Suitor Shampoo took Ranma asking why Akane chose friend in Friend Versus Lover as a sign that he hated her when in fact he was just coming to terms with Rejection Affection.
*Earn Your Happy Ending: After finally accepting that the relationship between him and Akane was over and giving up his manhood in order to defeat Tae-il. Ranma was able to go to a universe where she could have another chance with Akane.
*Enlightenment Superpowers: Soon Li gained the Storm Style’s ultimate technique when the Anthropomorphic Personification of the planet awoke inside of her.
**Later it taught it to Shampoo and Akane.
*Eureka Moment: Averted when Derek left he said that he had to prevent someone from pressing a Big Red Button. On their way to rescue Shampoo they passed a tailor shop whose sign was in the shape giant oversized red shirt button. Ranma was about to put two and two together only for Tae-il to awaken before he could.
**Shampoo theorizes that Derek’s incoherent rambling are meant to invoke this. Like the Big Red Button you aren't supposed to figure it out till the moment you need to.
**While explaining the nature of For Want of a Nail Derek mentioned how in one universe you could choose strawberry while in another you could choose vanilla. He also jokingly made a Shout-Out to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when asked what was going on. Shampoo later told Ranma-chan that strawberry and vanilla could be colors and that in the store, when you get vanilla flavoring it is black, not white like ice cream. During the final battle while looking over all of the destruction she saw that 42 was the only sign left intact. This caused her to go through everything Derek and Shampoo said until she realized that she had to choose red over black. I.e she not Ranma-kun had to be the one to accept the Anti-Magic field.
**Finally Ranma realized she was meant to go to the A Scary Thought Universe.
**Kodachi finally realized that Ranma and Ranma-chan were the same person after Bu activated his curse in front of her and told her about Jusenkyo.
*Everyone Can See It: Tae-il pointed out how Ranma singled out Akane when talking about his fiancée’s, plus when explaining what was going on he paid her much more attention.
*Exact Words: Tae-il told Shamna that she would not leave until she defeats him. By that point the bracelets had used up their power to sent Ukyo and Mousse to the MUOF universe. Only by directly tapping into their power and making her own way home can you she now, but that is not possible while Tae-il blocks that power.
*Failed a Spot Check: The Original Characters were so happy to get them back that it took everyone awhile to realize this wasn’t their Akane and Shampoo.
*Failure Is the Only Option: As stated by Cologne victory against Tae-il is not a possibility. The best they could do is delay him so that they could get their hands on the bracelets.
*Fatal Flaw: The Unification technique fuses the spirits of the lightning and wind style master forming a new body for it. However this leaves original body unprotected. Luckily Tae-il wanted to fight Shamne so left the bodies alone.
*Fearless Fool: Mousse was determined to go rescue Shampoo despite being repeatedly told that it was suicidal. He even attacked Soon Li when she stopped him.
*Fighter, Mage, Thief: Since Soon Li is a master of the more martial arts like Storm style she has far more experience in holding back the planetary spirit the her brother Tae-il who is a master of the ki and mana based Inferno style.
*Fighting Fingerprint: This is how Soon Li noticed that this wasn’t the original Shampoo and Akane. Extensive emphasis on speed, strongly hinting toward her Lightning school training, in contrast to the usual strength emphasis of Cologne's training.
*Flying Firepower: Inferno is not just the manipulation of fire. It is a nuclear furnace, the air itself flying apart at the subatomic level to unleash untold energy.
*For Want of a Nail: One of the first things Akane noticed when she woke up was that she was in Nabiki’s room only to be told that it is hers.
**The original Bu seems to be far more comfortable in her original body.
**Discussed in-universe Cologne admitted that if a similar thing occurred ten years ago with her Shampoo. She couldn’t say she would have behaved any better.
**Derek mentioned that things out have turned out better if Ranma had chosen strawberry ice cream instead of vanilla then explained to Ranma that was just how probability worked.
**Last month Shampoo ran into a fella named Takeshi. They would have gotten along famously if Ranma hadn't chosen to take a sneaky route home that day and actually saw the two together.
*Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Kodachi expressed her frustration at a certain pigtailed girl Bu asked her again if she knew Madam Lao.
**For those unaware he was talking about Keiko Aragami.
*Freudian Slip: Perfume commented about how Nabiki would often accidentally put the wrong name in her fanfics.
*Friend Versus Lover: Played with as the original Ranma isn’t Akane’s lover but her explanation of why she wants to stay in her universe plays out a lot like it.
*Fusion Dance: The ultimate technique of the Storm Style Unification. It usually involves merging with the spirit of the planet, but in theory when used by two warriors who train separately and gain a separate set of skills. When combined, their spirits will not only transcend physical form, but gain the knowledge and skill of both the warriors.
**Shamne
*Generic Doomsday Villain: Invoked but ultimately averted Tae-il showed up out of nowhere and just as suddenly tried to kill the protagonist. However this was the result of him losing control of the spirit within him invoking a superpowered evil side. Once he regains some measure of control he held back long enough for Shampoo and Akane to gain the strength to defeat him.
*Ghost City:Ukyo woke up to this.
*Ghost Planet: Ti Lo informed her it was actually this. There are only five people left on the planet
*Girl-on-Girl Is Hot: Ti Lo upon seeing Ukyo hug Ranma-chan in relief.
:: Tae-il: So, that's how it is, huh?
*Heartbroken Badass: The Original Ranma
*Hero of Another Story: With every comment Tae-il makes you get the impression that he has led a highly eventful life.
*Heroic Sacrifice: Ranma accepted the Anti-Magic field knowing that it meant trapping him in his cursed form.
**The Original Soon Li gave the last of her energy to en-charge Ranma-chan with an Anti-Magic field.
*Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: When Ranma finally caught up to them Akane and Shampoo started talking in Chinese
*Hoist by His Own Petard: Bu threatened to do this to Kodachi when he broke free.
*Homeless Hero: Ranma-chan at the end since she was in an entirely new universe had to find a place to live.
*How Dare You Die on Me!: A variation when Ranma expressed her doubt that he could be sent to the other universe since he was the only one who popped up as a second him. Shampoo was quick to get him to stop thinking like that.
*I Am Not Left-Handed: Tae-il initially only fought Shamna on a physical level before moving to Functional Magic.
*I Let You Win: Shampoo pointed out that the Original Shampoo never planned on killing Ranma-chan and he himself started to realize how many times she would let him get away.
*I Never Said It Was Poison: The original characters’ continuously try to catch Akane and Shampoo with this.
*I Owe You My Life: This was the original Soun’s reaction upon learning that Shampoo had taught Akane how to cook.
*I Reject Your Reality: Ranma’s denial that this wasn’t their Akane and Shampoo.
**Downplayed as much as Ranma doesn’t want to he’s fully aware that this isn’t his versions and he quickly came to accept it. Though only after a Curb-Stomp Battle.
**This is the reason Cologne Mousse Tae-il Ranma and Ukyo didn’t merge with their counterparts like everyone else. They simply were not ready to accept the other world.
*If I Wanted You Dead...: This was how Soon Li convinced Ukyo and Mousse to go to the MUOF Universe to go get Akane.
*I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: The planetary spirit that Original Soon Li is an avatar of afraid that if she was transported to the other world she would just awaken in that Soon Li brought Akane and Shampoo to the original universe so that she could teach them the final technique of the storm style.
*Imminent Danger Clue: As Nabiki walked down the hall towards the common room, a strange, and discomforting feeling hit her. She later found out that Akane was cooking.
**Played with as the feeling itself came from Shampoo training
*Improbably Quick Coma Recovery: Zigzagged Shampoo was up relatively quick even able to put a stop to a fight between the two Ranma’s. Akane however averts this.
*Intangible Man: Derek when Ranma tried to attack him.
*Interplay of Sex and Violence: For two years Kodachi has amassed a collection of toys. A sort of study of the various aspects of sexuality, hoping to test it on her rivals.
*Irony: In order to defeat Akane and Shampoo Ranma has to develop the skills that Ryoga has naturally. i.e the endurance to weather their attacks, and the strength to make any hits he scores make up for all the ones he does not.
**Ranma is on the other end of Not What It Looks Like. The fact that it involves his original counterpart makes it this all the more.
*It's All About Me: Averted when at first it seemed like Ranma was focusing on Akane and Shampoo’s sudden rise in skill. However he vehemently believed they were suffering the effects of Flash Sideways.
*Jerkass Has a Point: While Kodachi saying that the original Akane and Shampoo were acceptable loses was because they were her love rivals as Bu pointed out the whole universe may be in danger because Ranma and the others tried to rescue them.
**Akane like Shampoo gave Ranma a thorough deconstruction of their relationship, why it didn’t work, and why she wanted to stay in her universe. However unlike Shampoo she never accepted her own culpability.
*Know When to Fold 'Em: Ukyo decided she didn’t want to know what went down between Nabiki and Perfume.
**While still stubborn after a day Ranma realized this wasn’t his Akane and Shampoo muttering to himself that he just needed a couple more days.
**Seeing Shampoo’s display of the Lightning Style Kodachi felt it was best to leave.
**The Original Ranma finally accepted that he’d lost Akane when he ended up in the other world.
*Laser-Guided Karma: The Original Ranma ended up in the MUOF universe and had to explain everything that happened.
*Late to the Realization: It took Mousse awhile to realize that he was in a relationship with Ukyo in the other world
*Let's Get Dangerous!: For the first part of their fight Tae-il just No-Sell all of Shampoo’s attacks, before finally deciding to attack.
**Cologne’s got a number of tricks left that even Ranma hasn't seen
*Let's You and Him Fight: Averted Nodoka put a stop to things befor Ranma could attack his original counterpart for kidnapping Akane and Shampoo.
**It wasn’t long before the two versions of Ranma fought each other.
*Lightning Bruiser: Tae-il when he starts to fight seriously.
*Logical Weakness: As the Anthropomorphic Personification of earth Tae-il and the other masters draw their power from the people on it by with everyone having been sent to the new universe their power is significantly weakened. Preventing the original universe from being outright destroyed after the spirit Tae-il awoke and he lost control. By sending Ukyo and Mousse to that universe as well they are removed from the original planet’s energy field, cutting into his power, and giving Cologne at least a fighting chance.
*Loophole Abuse: Discussed but averted the law of the Kiss of Marriage states that it has to be a one on one fight. No third parties. It is only logical as a guy could have twenty men ambush an Amazon otherwise, then only come in to do the actual knock out. If the Original Shampoo was engaged with Akane, then her defeat by Ranma doesn't count as Akane would be considered a third party. However she didn’t see it that way.
*Magnetism Manipulation: Soon Li has this ability and the planetary spirit within her is far stronger in its use. Most the world around is nothing more than the interaction of electromagnetic fields. As a master of such she essentially has Mind over Matter.
**Shamna has this ability as well.
*Mind over Matter: Tae-il can do this
*Mirror Match: Ranma vs his original counterpart.
*Moment Killer: Perfume and Nabiki were about to kiss when Akane and Shampoo ran in having found out where the bracelets were.
*Nigh-Invulnerability: Shamna in the made of air variety. She doesn’t have a physical body just a complex electric field. So she can’t be physically hurt.
*Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: On a personal note if Shampoo didn’t insist on going to check if Bu Xien was in Nerima he never would have figured out that she and Akane have memories of that universe.
*No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Despite the risk, Soon Li chose to confront a group of men bent on genocide. While she disposed of the subordinates, their master had considerably more power. She nearly lost her life, thus the planetary spirit who inhabits her restored her, but to do so it had to awake, if only partially. Thus leading to an Apocalypse How.
**Ukyo offered Mousse a place to stay when Cologne kicked him out. She quickly grew tired of his moaning and self-pity.
*No-Sell: Energy weapons are useless against a master of Inferno who can easily snuff them out
**After gaining an Anti-Magic field Ranma-chan is able to do this to Tae-il’s attacks.
*No Antagonist: There really is no villain in OVA 3 everyone’s actions are the result of trying to rescue someone and the consequences of them. It’s just that the character in the original universe where trying to same people who no longer existed as a consequence of Derek preventing an Apocalypse How. Even after Tae-il lost control of the spirit within him he still had enough where with all to aid the heroes in defeating him.
*Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Tae-il and Soon Li awoke in a universe with only 5 people in it. If their counterparts awaken in the MUOF Universe then they'll be hundreds... no... vastly more powerful than they are in the Original Universe, and even more insane.
*Not in Kansas Anymore: Inverted when Akane instead of hitting Ranma for not giving her the bracelets she ran off to find Shampoo.
**Played with as they were already fully aware that they weren’t in their universe, but Shampoo was honestly shocked when Cologne apologized for her counterparts actions.
*Not What It Looks Like: When Shampoo woke up she hugged the Original Ranma who was checking up on Akane thinking that he was the MUOF version. That version soon walked in.
**Ranma ended up back in his universe only to find the whole city dead.
*Oh, Crap!: Everyone’s reaction when told Akane was cooking.
**Ranma ended up back in his universe only to find the whole city dead.
**Cologne’s reaction upon realizing that Tea-il was Soon Li’s brother. Cologne believed that Soon Li’s recent instability meant that she was succumbing to her curse
*Other Me Annoys Me: The original Cologne was greatly annoyed by the way her counterpart treated her granddaughter. Especially since it made trying to talk to Shampoo all the more harder.
**Needless to say Ranma wasn’t happy that his fiancée was kidnapped by a counterpart of his.
:: Ranma: There is no way the jerk is me, other dimension or not. I never would act like that
*Other Me Annoys Me: Cologne refused to fuse with her counterpart due to how horrible she has been to Shampoo. They also didn’t know how much it would affect her personality, so she could just be subjecting herself to a life of hating her granddaughter.
*Out-of-Character Moment: Nabiki looking down at her feet self-consciously when Ukyo confirmed she was there to see Perfume.
*Parental Sexuality Squick: Inverted Soun and Soon Li walked in on Perfume and Nabiki. Soun promptly fainted.
*Phlebotinum Breakdown: This was the theory of why the characters suddenly fell into a coma while the Original Ranma ended up in the MUOF universe. The overuse of the bracelets caused them to overload and affect everyone.
*Play-Along Prisoner: Bu’s snarky way of playing this straight greatly annoyed Kodachi who expected more of a fuss.
*Playing with Fire: Tae-il (aka Ti Lo) is the master of the Elemental Fury Style of the Infernos, one of four such styles.
*Politically Incorrect Hero: Soun was very uncomfortable about Perfume and Nabiki’s relationship calling it unnatural.
*Post-Victory Collapse: Shampoo after defeating Ranma though she waited until she was away from everyone to do it so that he wasn’t aware how much his last attack affected her.
*Psychic Block Defense: As his sister Soon Li is immune to Tae-il’s ability to sense people.
*Reality Ensues: When Bu tricked Kodachi into giving her a glass of water her restraints naturally broke when she activated her curse.
**Ranma was so hoped up on adrenalin as well as the fact she needed to go deal with Tae-il that even she admitted she hadn’t fully registered the sacrifice she made.
**Shampoo was initially surprised by how much better she was then the original Ranma before realizing that her version has progressed with her. Shampoo could still beat him, but he has closed the gap considerably. This version hadn’t received her training so wasn’t a threat.
**Ranma isn’t as skilled as Shampoo and hasn’t received training in how to overcome the Lightning Schools weaknesses so his counterpart was able to hold his own better against him then Shampoo.
**The Original Ranma had only recently learned Quake so wasn’t quite skilled enough to use it in battle.
**MUOF Ranma calmed down significantly once he knew for sure Shampoo was okay.
**Ti Lo is a Sensor Character whose range is usually a couple of kilometers. However with the original earth turning into a Ghost Planet it’s extended to the entire world since there are few people left in it.
**Since Inferno is Ki and Mana based naturally Tae-il would have knowledge of the arcane arts.
**Even though it wasn’t her Ranma Shampoo became very depressed at the thought that any version of her fiancée hated her.
**Tae-il himself pointed out how ludicrous it was for Shampoo to think she could hurt let alone defeat him.
:: Tae-il: What? Did you expect to hurt me? Come now. Even with so little energy as I have now, I'm still several times more powerful than you, and with full access to my styles techniques, whereas you only have half of yours. High marks for effort, though. However, I'm afraid this wouldn't be much of a fight if you did all the hitting.
**After Tae-il threw her into a building Shampoo couldn’t just get up and continue fighting.
**Shamna is faster then Tae-il by the simple fact that she no longer has mass while he does. So eventually the force he needed to plow through the air to match her became too much.
*Red Herring: Shampoo also figured Derek’s incoherent rambling could be this to through off the spirits.
*Reduced to Dust: The bracelets did this after Ranma, Akane, and Shampoo returned to their universe for the final time.
*Refuge in Audacity: Ti Lo showed in Ukyo’s room after cooking her breakfast. He was so nonchalant about it that she didn’t attack him despite having never seen him before.
*Ripple Effect-Proof Memory: Discussed in universe for why Shampoo made Ryoga go apologize to Akane for pretending to be P-Chan. Akane is always going to be thinking about that even though the her Ryoga didn't do anything. He'll be essentially paying the price for Original Ryoga's crime. Better to have the Original Ryoga apologize, that way at least Akane has a real chance to get over it.
*Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Natsume and Kurumi didn’t bother fight Azusa for P-chan they just snatched him out of her hand and quickly ran away.
*Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: The four masters of the Elemental Fury Styles are the avatars of the Earth itself
*Secretly Selfish: Played with Derek was quick to call BS on Ranma saying that he wanted everybody to be happy. Not because he was accusing Ranma of being a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, but simply calling him out for his Villains Act, Heroes React mentality of dealing with the chaos of his life. If Ranma really wanted everyone to be happy he would have worked harder to achieve it instead of reacting to things as they came.
*Sequel Hook: The characters still have to find their universe’s version of Tae-il as well as get strong enough to deal with the Hunters.
*Serial Escalation: Averting this is one of the lessons Soon Li taught Shampoo. 
::Shampoo: You pull a sword, so will your opponent. Just a lesson of Soon Li's. It is often best to solve a problem with the minimal amount of force, especially when in competition, otherwise your competition may push back with an equal amount of force, meaning whoever loses will be that much more hurt.
*Sherlock Scan: Shampoo noticed that Nabiki was listening in on her and Akane’s conversation because she put to much force on the door when she placed the glass on it. It was almost half a millimeter off its normal closed position.
**Shampoo can do this as a direct result of her Art of Focus training.
::Shampoo: I stared at a pin in a wall for several weeks. By the end of that time I could have told you if the pattern of dust on it was different.
** When the Original Ranma ended up in the MUOF universe he used this in a desperate attempt to see if it was some elaborate prank.
***He was later able to quickly determine that Mousse and Ukyo were a couple. Luckily he stopped himself from reacting to this realization.
*Shout-Out: When Ranma asked Derek what was going on he answered 42.
*Sibling Yin-Yang: Averted both Soon Li and her brother Tae-il are shown to be very laid-back, jovial people, though he is far more of a Chivalrous Pervert. 
*Schmuck Bait: Despite being wary of the gift Kodachi gave her Bu Xien took it anyway. 
*Stalking Is Love: Averted Akane called Ryoga out for taking advantage of her counterpart instead of telling her how he felt right off the bat. 
*Story-Breaker Power: Being the planetary spirit is the main source of Tae-il's advanced knowledge and power. Said to be the combined knowledge of all life on Earth, even a tiny fraction of this power allowed Tae-il to devastate both Tokyo and before that Hong Kong. He was also able to face Cologne at her maximum, with little effort in this greatly weakened state.
*Strength Equals Worthiness: This was Tae-il’s ultimate goal to test the strength of Shampoo and Akane to see if they are strong enough to deal with the hunters. 
*Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred: The original Cologne theorizes this is what her counterpart is after.
::Ranma: You mean, she want Shampoo to kill her?
::Cologne: Possiblely, but at the least defeat her in a formal challenge, most likely to force you to take the position of matriarch. Or, perhaps she means to kill Shampoo, and merely have Shampoo initiate the battle so as to give her a good excuse. Either way, you should be very wary. Being Matriarch is a difficult task at the best of times, and those who have seized the title through combat typically don't last long in the position. I'd advice to not let her control the time and place of this battle. Control it yourselves.
*Stunned Silence: This was Shampoo’s reaction when Soon Li explained how she ended up in the original universe. 
*Super Speed: The fact she is made of air means that Shamna no longer is affected by resistance and simple momentum meaning that she can move at far greater speed. The faster she pushed, the faster she went, seemingly with no limit in sight. Additionally, having no real mass to speak of, she could maneuver at a rate no human could ever hope to achieve.
*Super-Powered Evil Side: Soon Li and Tae-il when they become the planetary spirit.
*Take a Third Option: Tae-il is leading Shamna to this. She can’t kill him as that would kill the original Ranma and Cologne since they’re part of his life energy. Killing him and his siblings all at once is Beyond the Impossible at best, not to mention she doesn’t know where the other two are. So she has to find an alternative solution. 
*Taking the Bullet: Played with as the victim wanted in question wanted the bullet, but Ranma-chan realized that she was the one who was supposed to make the sacrifice and took it instead at the last second. 
*The Chessmaster: Derek to the point here Ranma wondered if he made that innocuous comment about a Big Red Button to warn him about Tae-il awakening, thus saving his live. 
*The Juggernaut: Tae-il’s energy seems limitless. He never tires, and still manages to resist even the best attacks, suffering no damage. 
*"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Akane gave Ranma brutal one when he asked her once again why she wanted to stay in her world. 
*The Scapegoat: As usual the fathers and Nabiki planned on throwing Ranma to the wolves to get out of eating Akane’s cooking.
*There Was a Door: The reason Soon Li attacked Mousse when the spirit within her awoke was because he was in her way and that was the quickest way to ge him out of it. 
*Three-Way Sex: Ti Lo claimed he was doing this when everyone disappeared. 
*Time to Unlock More True Potential: After his Curb Stomp Battle Ranma learned the basics of Quake from Cologne.
*Took a Level In Badass: In universe since the two versions of Akane and Shampoo fused together when they were transported to the original universe they kept their skill and strength. 
*Transferable Memory: The planet spirit did this to Shampoo. 
*The Unfair Sex: Averted when Bu was told that Ranma was a Clueless Chick Magnet. He told Kodachi that she should find someone else not because Ranma was a cad, but because he was too wanted and she should get herself a guy she could have to herself.
*Villain Ball: This is the first sign that Tae-il still has some measure of control despite his power he is content with playing with Cologne, by making slow and predictable attacks, more worrisome than truly dangerous. 
*Well-Intentioned Extremist: The problem with the Hunters is that they not only kill the spirits anytime they are reborn, but anyone who has knowledge of the Elemental Fury Styles. 
*What Does She See in Him?: In universe Ukyo wondered how her counterpart fell in love with Mousse.
*What the Hell, Hero?: Akane and Shampoo calling Ranma out for kidnapping them against their will and hiding the bracelets so they couldn’t get home. Pointingly telling him that they had lives that were just as important as his versions of them. 
**Nabiki called Ranma out on being more worried about the fact that Akane is suddenly better then him then their version of Akane and Shampoo being lost somewhere.
***Downplayed as Ranma was just in denial that they weren’t their versions.
**Shampoo berating Ryoga for pretending to be Akane’s pet, telling him to go beg for her forgiveness.
***Who proceeded to give him one of these as well.
*What Is Going On?: Ranma upon coming to the original universe to rescue Shampoo asked her this upon realizing he had no idea who Tae-il was. 
*When All You Have Is a Hammer: Soon Li caused the Apocalypse How by using the ultimate technique of the Storm Style. She then taught it to Akane and Shampoo so that they could use it to fix it. 
*Woman Scorned: Averted Kodachi wasn’t upset in the least upon finding out about Ranma’s curse. 
*You Can Run but You Can't Hide: Tae-il said this when Ranma suggested using the Saotome Ultimate Secret Technique pointing out that his ability to teleport made that pointless.
*You Can't Fight Fate: No matter what the original Bu Xien did he would always end up in Japan. Not an idiot he quickly realized that something was up. 
**When she finally made it to Nerima the first person she ran into (or ran into her) was Kodachi. 
*You're Insane!: This was Ranma-chan’s reaction upon learning what the Storm Style ultimate technique was. She calmed down somewhat upon being told it wasn’t permanent. 
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