Odd Outcome/Tropes

*All Take and No Give: The girls seem to want Ranma to fix everything while they d what they want. 
**For all Shampoo’s complaint about Ranma not giving her a chance she refuses to budge from her When All You Have Is a Hammer approach. 
**Akane and Shampoo ended up discussing about how to get Ranma to open up and the only conclusion they came up with was that he was just to stubborn. 
::Shampoo: Do Ranma-
::Akane: He’s being a bit annoying, but I think we can get him to go along with it.
**Inverted with Ranma who despite being clearly uncomfortable being used as The Beard he remains supportive. 
*Awesomeness by Analysis: People forget that Ranma is not stupid he was the first to notice the growing affection between Akane and Shampoo. 
*Acting Unnatural: After there makeout session whenever someone mentioned Shampoo, Akane would start shaking. 
*All of the Other Reindeer: Shampoo always led an isolated existence, apart from the other villagers, which left a great void in her heart. It wasn’t until she was defeated by Ranma’s male half that Shampoo realized just how much she wanted a companion. 
*Batman Gambit: Ukyo inviting Shampoo to her weekly poker game so that she and Akane can be together. 
*Beneath Notice: Tsubasa was the one who told Mousse about Akane and Shampoo 
*The Big Damn Kiss: Akane did this to Shampoo to turn the tides in her favor during their third match.
**Averted as it was more of an Awkward Kiss. 
**It did eventually turn into this. 
*Brandishment Bluff: This was the basis for the plan to defeat Shampoo the challenge had to be so outrageous that she’d never suspect or be prepared for it. Akane herself didn’t even have to be prepared for it, she needed to make Shampoo think she could and would do it and make her back out. 
*Can't Catch Up: While Akane is definitely a Badass and even awe inspiring by most people's standards, to the Nerima Wrecking Crew she barely makes par.
*Closet Key: Akane just wanted a way to defeat Shampoo. Shampoo just refused to back down from a challenge. They both refused to accept defeat so decided the Best Out of Infinity 
**it is more of a case of Bi-Wildered as they are both still attracted to Ranma. 
*Combat Pragmatist: This jumps off the plot Akane and Ukyo realized that they Shampoo was stronger then her, and they needed a way to deal with her in a way that she can't use as an excuse to take revenge. So they had to figure out a way to get her to back down from a challenge. 
*Cooking Duel: Shampoo vs Akane the first to make the other orgasm wins. 
*Covert Pervert: Sure it was a Batman Gambit but Akane still challenge Shampoo to see who was better at love making. 
*Didn't Think This Through: I finally occurred to Shampoo just how much she would be giving up at the end of her chapter. 
**As Ukyo herself admits she rushes into things without giving them the necessary planning. This is why she plans to give her current attempt to play matchmaker between Akane and Ryoga the proper level of planning and thought. 
*Disappointed by the Motive: While Ukyo was furious to learn that Ryoga was P-chan. She was just as mad to discover that the reason he fell in love with Akane was because she was nice to his cursed form. 
*Drunken Master: Ranma becomes a better poker player when he’s drunk. 
*Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Since the second chapter is told from Shampoo’s pov we don’t get the usual Shampoo-ese, as Akane calls it.
*Entitled to Have You: Mousse which is why Shampoo hates him so much. 
*Evil Is Petty: When Shampoo told him that there was no way she would ever be with him after he kidnapped Akane he told her that she was dead. However this was only to get her back for her "The Reason You Suck" Speech and quickly let her go. 
*Excuse Plot: According to Word of God this was an attempt at getting Akane and Shampoo together, in his eternal quest to keep Shampoo as far from Mousse as possible. 
*Failure Is the Only Option: This is the reason Akane didn’t care about the fact that Ranma was going off to find a cure. After so many tries it was inevidable that he would be back in a week. If anything she was annoyed at everyone else making such a big deal about it. 
*Fate Worse Than Death: While death is a harsh punishment for breaking Amazon Law it is not the worse one. 
*Genre Savvy: Ukyo quickly realized that the rumors being spread around about Akane and Shampoo weren’t just rumors. 
*Go Seduce My Archnemesis: Akane attempted this as a Brandishment Bluff it didn’t work. 
*Happily Failed Suicide: After being Driven to Suicide it was Cologne who saved Shampoo, not only from the law, but also from that pit of despair she was in. She drove Shampoo all the way back to the top. She gave her a cause to fight for, a hope of victory, and even her own guidance and assistance. Basically, she rebuilt Shampoo’s shattered spirit.
*His Own Worst Enemy: Akane’s refusal to admit that she made a mistake and drop her challenge is what led to everything. 
**She the accepted Shampoo’s rematch. 
::Akane: I'll show her. I won and I'll win again!
*Hoist by His Own Petard: Akane challenged Shampoo to see who was better at love making fully expecting her to back down. She didn’t. 
**Akane attempted to kiss Shampoo to turn things in her favor, before long they were making out. 
*I Just Want to Be Loved: All Shampoo wants is someone she can care for and who truly cares for her.
*Instantly Proven Wrong: Upon being told that Cologne had forbidden them from seeing each other Akane asked what gave her the right. Shampoo reminded her that she was the village elder. 
*Interplay of Sex and Violence: Akane and Shampoo’s first few times were a fierce effort to overcome the other. 
**Averted with their forth time. 
*It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: It wasn’t until Akane went to Ukyo to brag about her victory that she realized that she couldn’t actually tell her what happened. 
**The Big Damn Kiss
*Just Friends: This is all Akane sees Ryoga as. 
*Know When to Fold'Em: Mousse finally went back to Japan. 
*Laser-Guided Karma: After Nabiki blabbed to everyone I school what happened they all started calling Akane a hentai. Ranma found this circumstance very amusing.
::Ranma: What, can’t take being called the pervert Akane?
*Loophole Abuse: Averted Cologne let Shampoo see Ranma after forbidding her from seeing Akane, but warned not to try and use this as an excuse to see her. 
**Played straight with the fact that Shampoo just had to make sure they weren’t caught. 
**This is the reason Shampoo received her curse in the first place. Cologne managed to convince the council that Shampoo did not strictly violate the law by returning having not killed Ranma-chan, so they were lenient on her, and just punished her with the curse.
*Marry Them All: Nabiki suggested this to Ukyo.
*Mistaken for Gay: An interesting zig-zag in that Nabiki told Kuno that it was Ranma-chan that Akane was found in bed with, making it more of a Distinction Without a Difference
*Moral Myopia: For all Shampoo’s annoyance for Mousse’s unwillingness to take no for an answer and his Entitled to Have You mentality she treats Ranma the same way perhaps even worse. Despite starting a physical relationship with Akane she makes no attempt to change her relationship with Ranma even after he learns about it. She also considers him an insensitive jerk for forcing her to go to further extremes to get his attention. Her actions really aren’t that different from Mousse waking her up every day to plead his case. Ranma’s wants and desires, the fact that her aggressive approach isn’t working never seems to register to her. 
**She complains about Mousse being a Crazy Jealous Guy when she is a Clingy Jealous Girl just as prone to Murder the Hypotenuse.
**Akane complains about how stubborn Ranma is but the only reason he was able to pry her relationship with Shampoo out of her was because he didn’t rise to the bait when she repeatedly attempted to start a fight. 
**Averted when Nabiki called Ukyo out on the fact that she was trying to get Akane and Shampoo to marry Ryoga, but wasn’t willing to consider Marry Them All for herself. 
*Near-Villain Victory: Akane beat Shampoo by a few seconds. 
**Averted in the rematch where she won. 
*Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Ukyo gave Tsubasa a job in the hopes that it would keep him in her sights, but all it did was allow him to find out about Akane and Shampoo’s relationship without anybody noticing. 
**Ryoga went to China to get a cure for his curse only to come across Ling Ling and Lung Lung and ended up revealing Akane and Shampoo’s relationship. To stop them from telling the village elders he knocked them out. 
*Oh, Crap!: This was both Akane and Shampoo’s reaction when they realized they were no longer having meaningless sex. 
**Shampoo when she woke up to find a furious Cologne looking down on her and Akane
::Shampoo: Believe me when I say, seeing her, probably the greatest Amazon warrior alive, in that state was enough to shatter my nerve.
**Ryoga knew that unlike Ranma Shampoo had no obligation to hide his curse from Akane. 
*Pair the Suitors: Akane and Shampoo fall in love.
*Polyamory: The Amazons have no problem with multiple partners in a marriage. Some Amazons have been known to have more than ten husbands in ancient times. Not much of that happening now, but there is nothing saying that it can’t happen. 
*Reality Ensues: The reason hasn’t had the time to properly learn Japanese is because she spends most of her time working at the Nekohanten, having to chase after Ranma, and having to fend off Mousse’s advances.
*Reasonable Authority Figure: Downplayed, Cologne loves Shampoo and is the only reason she wasn’t killed for failing to kill Ranma-chan, however while she is will to bend the rules for her great granddaughter there is only so much she can do. 
*"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Shampoo gave Mousse one when he kidnapped Akane after finding out about there relationship.
::Shampoo: What?! I’ll tell you what! You are a menace! You claim to care for me, but it’s all a damned lie! All you care about is yourself! You’ve never listen to me. You’ve never understood me. You’ve never cared about what I want. Even as my enemy Akane cared more for me than you ever did. Being married to you would be the end of me.
*Satellite Love Interest: Ranma of all people is this despite constantly expressing how much they love him the Akane, Shampoo, and even Ukyo only seem to think about how his actions benefits them, and when he does something contrary to that they see him as stubborn and indecisive never once questioning weather or not its their aggressive approach that might be the problem. When they do take a moment to notice how uncomfortable he is it’s fleeting, forgotten as they once more focus on their wants and needs. 
**All in all this leads to an uncomfortable All Take and No Give and even abusive relationship where they pile all the responsibility for their actions onto Ranma, never once even attempting to think about how they could make things easier for him, just themselves. 
*The Scottish Trope: When Cologne was chastising Shampoo she never referred to Akane by name merely that Tendo girl
*Suicide by Cop: Back when Ranma tricked Shampoo into thinking that his cursed form was his real body she was left devastated and lost her will to live. However she wasn’t ready to do the deed herself, so let the village law do it for her.
*Suppressed Rage: One of Ukyo’s councilors once said she has a lot of repressed anger. 
*Switching P.O.V.: Each chapter is told from a different characters pov 
*Sympathetic P.O.V.: We see things from Akane and Shampoo’s point of view. 
*Tranquil Fury: Cologne is not one to deal with a serious situation in an emotional state.
*Unfulfilled Purpose Misery There comes a time in every person’s life when they should sit back, look at what they have done and then she, or he, must ask herself, or himself, ‘what in the hell have I been doing with my life?’ After Cologne found out about her and Akane was Shampoo’s time. 
*Vitriolic Best Buds: Despite being romantic rivals Ukyo considers Akane her friend, maybe not the best of friends buts friends non the less. 
*What Could Have Been: The chapter where we learn Ranma’s perspective on everything was never written
*What the Hell, Hero?: Ukyo to Shampoo for thinking that she could Marry Them All.
**She later called out Mousse for kidnapping Akane
*Won't Take Yes for An Answer: After Ranma admitted to Ukyo that he had started developing feelings for Akane, before everything happened, she told him about the fact that the Amazon’s accepted Polyamory. Ranma was very happy with the idea not because he wanted to Marry Them All, but because it would leave everyone satisfied. Ukyo just saw it as him not taking marriage seriously. 
*Yandere: Mousse is a constant, annoying presence in Shampoo’s life. She always has to worry about how he’d react to everything, whether he’d go nuts or not, and has long since grown sick of it.
**When Shampoo first met Ranma and he defeated her one of the first things that went through her mind, was how Mousse would take it. she then thought that maybe he’d come to realize he’d never have me and leave, and, if he didn’t, Ranma was strong enough to fend him off. Sadly he never did get the point, and now she had to worry about Akane who couldn’t defend herself from him.
Category:Odd Outcome
Category:Tropes