Teen Titans Tokyo
Ranma Saotome
Ranma Saotome
Son of Genma Saotome and heir to the Saotome School of Anything-Goes Martial Arts, Ranma was brought to the town of Furinkan in the Nerima Ward of Tokyo to be wed to a daughter of Soun Tendo, as per a pledge made between Genma and Soun before their children were born. He found life taking an unexpected but not unwelcome turn when he became drafted into the fledgling team of super-teens known as the Teen Titans Tokyo.- The Ace: Having trained since he was a baby in Supernatural Martial Arts, Ranma is fast, strong, tough, and agile beyond the dreams of any normal human. He readily outclasses martial artists who were originally considered champions in Furinkan, to the extent that despite having studied the feats of Tatewaki Kuno, Dr. Kei is repeatedly dumbstruck by what Ranma is capable of.
- Accidental Marriage: By defeating Shampoo at the end of T3: Season One's first chapter, Ranma unwittingly becomes betrothed to her by her tribal laws.
- Arranged Marriage: Ranma's father Genma arranged for Ranma to marry a daughter of Soun Tendo before Ranma was even born. T3: Pilot opens with Ranma being literally dragged to the Tendo Dojo to finally choose which of Soun's three daughters will be his fiancee.
- Freaky Is Cool: When he sees Nabiki's "ryumimi" form, rather than be repulsed like she expects, he calls her "cute" and "awesome".
- Involuntary Shapeshifting: Due to having a Jusenkyo curse, Ranma can be forced to change into a girl by being splashed with cold water, whether he wants to or not. Likewise, if he's in his girl body, he can be forced back to being a boy with hot water. The trope is downplayed in that Ranma can also voluntarily transform if he wants by exploiting the trigger mechanism, but since water changes him regardless of whether he wants to or not, he still fits the trope.
- Point of Divergence: Due to Blackfire accidentally disrupting the rainstorm that would have hit Furinkan when the Saotomes arrived, Ranma arrives at the Tendo Dojo in male form. This means that Nabiki, being the only Tendo Girl who was interested in the engagement to start with, chooses to take the engagement, instead of pushing him off to Akane after being disgusted by his Jusenkyo curse.
- Sex Shifter: Due to being a boy with the Nyanniichuan curse, Ranma becomes a girl with cold water and reverts to being a boy with hot water.
- Supernatural Martial Arts: Training in martial arts since he was a baby has made Ranma capable of feats of physical prowess that defy the accepted limits of human ability.
- Super-Strength: Doctor Kei asserts that Ranma's strength is already well in the superhuman range despite him being a baseline human.
- Super-Reflexes: Ranma isn't a true Super Speedster in the vein of The Flash, but he can move and react at speeds far in excess of what should be humanly possible.
Nabiki Tendo
Nabiki Tendo
17-year-old middle daughter of Soun Tendo. Cursed into a half-dragon after she accepted a cursed gold coin that was supposedly the last coin from the hoard of Fafnir, her life had already turned upside down before Ranma arrived. She didn't expect their engagement to lead to her becoming a superhero, however!- Arranged Marriage: As one of Soun's daughters, she was given the option of accepting the engagement to Ranma Saotome. Having been interested in the idea of having a cute boyfriend to start with, and bonding with Ranma after he wasn't put off by her true form, she accepted.
- Breath Weapon: She can breathe various kinds of destructive energy — she showcases fire and frost in T3: Pilot, and mentions breathing acidic fumes (or possibly corrosive venom in T3: Season 1. At first, she doesn't know how she can do this, nor can she do it on purpose.
- Currency Cuisine: An aspect of the Fafnir curse is that Nabiki finds any metal coins to be delicious, with more valuable coins tasting even better, and is even compelled to eat them. Thankfully this doesn't extend to paper notes, so she can still handle money.
- Cursed with Awesome: Nabiki hates her curse for making her look like a freak, but at the same time it's given her legitimate superpowers.
- Cute Monster Girl: As a "Ryumimi", Nabiki looks like a cute girl with clearly draconic traits, including fangs, claws, vestigial wings, a forked tongue, and a tail.
- Draconic Humanoid: Courtesy of a curse she acquired by taking ownership of the last gold coin left from the hoard of Fafnir, Nabiki was turned into a Cute Monster Girl version of a dragon.
- Extreme Omnivore: Nabiki's transformation into "Ryumimi" began with her sleep-eating her entire collection of 1-yen coins. She still struggles with a compulsion to eat metal coins.
- How Do I Shot Web?: Having rejected her cursed body and lamenting her humanity, combined with having no prior interest in fighting, Nabiki hasn't trained in how to use her draconic powers at all at the start of the series. This makes her initially the weakest member of the team.
- Involuntary Shapeshifting: She can make herself look like she's human, but only temporarily until her back starts hurting her enough that she's forced to change into her cursed form.
- My Instincts Are Showing: She notes that since her transformation, she's become much more prone to acting on her emotions than she did before, which she blames on dragon instincts. More closely to the trope is her compulsion to snack on metal money.
- Super-Strength: When in dragon form, Nabiki's strength increases, to the point she estimates that she is at least as strong as her little sister.
- Unskilled, but Strong: As the series starts, she has Super-Strength and a Breath Weapon, but no martial arts training at all, reducing her to flailing wildly and reacting on instinct in an actual battle.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Thanks to her draconic instincts, Nabiki does not take it lightly when people attack Ranma.
- Were Dragon: The central premise of her "power" as Ryumimi is that she's a human girl who can turn into a Cute Monster Girl version of a Draconic Humanoid.
- Wolverine Claws: In her Ryumimi form, Nabiki's fingers sharpen into talons that can tear through steel.
Blackfire
Blackfire
Exiled and disgraced elder princess of Tamaran, Blackfire came to Japan on a whim whilst trying to come up with a plot to get revenge on her sisters. She found an unexpected gift dropped in her lap in the form of the Teen Titans Tokyo.- Big Eater: Blackfire devours a ten-liter drum of rocky road ice cream and then washes it down with a two-liter bottle of Coca-Cola upon first arriving in Furinkan.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She presents herself as a hero intent on guiding a new team of Titans to protect Tokyo. In reality, she plans to mold her team into a weapon to use against the original Teen Titans and has no qualms about potentially murdering any of them who are inconvenient.
- Eye Beams: Having gone through Tamaranean puberty, Blackfire is able to launch beams of incendiary force from her eyes as well as her iconic "starbolts".
- Flying Firepower: As a Tamaranean, Blackfire's racial abilities are Flight, Super-Strength, Super-Toughness, and the ability to launch Hand Blasts and Eye Beams.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Orange-skinned, actually, but still, Blackfire is an alien who looks like a sexy teenage girl, with only her orange skin and purple hair and eyes marking her as not being from Earth.
- Indy Ploy: Blackfire literally comes up with the idea to fake founding the Teen Titans Tokyo in hopes of building her own cabal of super-powered minions to seek revenge on Starfire on the spot after a news reporter makes it clear that the Japanese public has no idea of her criminal past.
- Mars Needs Women: Gender-inverted. The alien girl Blackfire thinks that the human boy Ranma Saotome is cute, and is intent on seducing him. The fact he's already engaged to two other girls is no impediment to these desires — if anything, the challenge of taking him from Nabiki and Shampoo only makes her more interested.
- Skilled And Strong: Blackfire is not only super-strong thanks to her alien heritage but has also trained under various alien martial artists, allowing her to use that strength to deadly effect.
- The Vamp: Blackfire is well aware of how sexually attractive she is, and her interactions with guys tend to automatically be flirtatious as part of her constant effort to establish herself as the one "in charge" of a given situation.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Because of the combination of Blackfire's low criminal profile on Earth, Japan's ignorance as to events amongst American superheroes, and her debut consisting of her thwarting Kasumi's attack on random civilians, Blackfire is mistaken for a hero like her little sister Starfire, who left a big impression when the Teen Titans visited Japan.
Shampoo
Shan Pu/Shampoo
A Chinese Amazon that Ranma shamed by eating the prize she had just won for clearing her village's annual tournament, then further humiliated her by defeating her in a single blow after challenging her to a fight. She gave Ranma, whom she believed to be a girl, the Kiss of Death and chased her from China to Japan looking for revenge, only for things to go in a very unexpected direction when she reached Japan...- Accidental Marriage: Defeated by Ranma in their first encounter in Japan, she is now considered to be his wife by the laws of her village.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: In Ranma ½, she didn't arrive until roughly half a dozen or so arcs into the series. In this fic, she arrives in the first chapter.
- Adaptational Heroism: In Ranma ½ canon, Shampoo was a morally ambiguous (at best) character who could be an ally to Ranma, but was also willing to try and force affection and/or marriage from him via love-inducing magic as well as having (barely) restrained murderous impulses towards Akane Tendo, Ranma's true fiancée. In Teen Titans Tokyo, she becomes one of Ranma's crime-fighting allies, and when she learns that Ranma is already engaged to Nabiki, declares that she and Nabiki will simply "compete" for Ranma's affections. It's obvious that she expects to be the one who wins said competition, but it's nicer than what she did in canon.
- Adaptation Species Change: A human with the Jusenkyo Curse of the Spring of Drowned Cat in canon. In Teen Titans Tokyo she's... something else.
- Amazonian Beauty: The awakening of Shampoo's demonic heritage has transformed her from a lithe beauty into a towering, full-figured beauty.
- Anime Chinese Girl: She's a beautiful Chinese Action Girl with a extremely poor grasp of Japanese that only makes her seem cuter. She somewhat twists the formula by getting cursed into a Cute Monster Girl in her first appearance.
- Breast Expansion: It's mentioned in passing that her transformation into a "gozu hanyo" has resulted in a distinct increase in her bust size.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Called out in the text as being both extremely busty and extremely beautiful, despite her bestial attributes.
- Cursed with Awesome: Being transformed made her look inhuman, but also made her faster and stronger, to the point she went from being effortlessly outclassed by Ranma in their first fight back in China to a near-match for him in their unintentional rematch in Japan.
- Cute Monster Girl: She may be the better part of seven feet tall, with a cow's ears, tail and horns, a third eye, fangs, and claws... but she's still a cute Anime Chinese Girl with a massive rack.
- Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Shampoo's Japanese is unquestionably poor, which she admits, but when she speaks in her native tongue or we see her thoughts, she speaks in a very formal, verbose, even almost archaic manner.
- Extra Eyes: Has a third eye on her forehead. This probably stems from her broader oni heritage, as oni could often be either cyclopses or have three eyes.
- Giant Woman: Downplayed. She's said to be somewhere around six or seven feet tall post-transformation, which is pretty huge for a sixteen-year-old Chinese girl.
- Half-Human Hybrid: The mysterious "Rae-Rae" surmises that Shampoo is a "hanyo" with "gozu" heritage after transforming her. "Hanyo" is a term used in Inuyasha to mean "half-youkai", whilst a gozu is an oni with the head of an ox (Gozu literally means "Ox Face") that guards the hells in Chinese and Japanese mythology. So, that would make Shampoo a half-gozu, presuming "Rae-Rae" is right (and there's no reason to presume she's wrong).
- Horned Humanoid: Has ox-like horns after her transformation.
- Huge Schoolgirl: She's sixteen years old and somewhere between six and seven feet tall. Before, she was a full head shorter than (male) Ranma — now the difference is reversed, to the point Ranma can't help but notice that his face is on level with her breasts.
- Insistent Terminology: Whenever Shampoo is referring to herself, she always identifies herself as "Shan Pu", her actual Chinese name. It's Ranma and the other Japanese speakers who address her as "Shampoo".
- Late-Arrival Spoiler:
- She arrives in Japan perfectly human in T3: Pilot, but is transformed in the very first chapter of T3: Season One.
- Shampoo becomes a member of the Teen Titans Tokyo in the second chapter of T3: Season One, after having arrived seeking the death of "Girl-Type Ranma" in T3: Pilot.
- Little Bit Beastly: She has the ears and tail of a cow after her transformation.
- Our Minotaurs Are Different: Gozu are a kind of oni who have an ox-like head, resembling a Greek minotaur. Shampoo's half-human heritage means she looks like an abnormally tall muscular yet curvaceous human girl with bovine ears, horns, and a tail. Plus some clearly demonic traits in the form of fangs, claws, and a third eye.
- The Stations of the Canon: Completely derailed, in her case. Aside from the whole "turned into a demon cowgirl" thing, her first meeting with Ranma goes very differently; thanks to Blackfire being able to translate between them, and advocating honesty, Shampoo is told straight away that the "girl-type Ranma" and "boy-type Ranma" are the same person, with the male Ranma being the real one. Because of this, she doesn't go home to China in disgrace and doesn't get a Jusenkyo curse as a consequence.
- Super-Strength: Following her transformation, Shampoo's strength is massively increased, allowing her to easily shatter walls and pavement while also giving Ranma a challenge in their fight.
- Super-Toughness: She survives being shot in the chest by a massive energy rifle in the second chapter of T3: Season One with nothing more than some bruising... and the complete disintegration of her already strained shirt.
Villains
The Mastermind
Kasumi Tendo
19-year-old Kasumi is the eldest daughter of Soun Tendo and took up the role of surrogate mother after Mrs. Tendo died. Unbeknownst to her family, she has secretly begun acting out as the first of Furinkan's aspiring new supervillains.- Adaptational Sexuality: Canonically, Kasumi is straight but Oblivious to Love. Here, she's a lesbian.
- Adaptation Species Change: Kasumi refers to herself as a "hanyo", indicating she has demonic ancestry.
- Adaptational Villainy: Kasumi in Ranma ½ canon was a bit-character whose role largely revolved around being the saintly surrogate mother of the Tendo family, who is oblivious to what her actions do. Here, she's an aspiring supervillain, who knows full well what she's doing and has turned indifferent to human life.
- Asian Fox Spirit: Her supervillain identity invokes the image of a kitsune by wearing a blackened O-inari (fox) festival mask and sporting two black-and-white fox tails. It's hinted at in the first "episode" that this may not be entirely a costume...
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Kasumi operates right under her family's noses because they all believe her to be the sweet, loving, ever-sacrificing surrogate mom she's been for the past decade, and have barely noticed how many things she does are far from that.
- Black Magic: Her superpowers are explicitly described as dark magic she learned from her girlfriend.
- Casting a Shadow: The few spells Kasumi displays at the start of the series are largely shadow-based. She can spawn expendable shadow-creatures from nearby patches of darkness, and to escape Ranma, Nabiki, and Blackfire she creates a "surge of darkness" that is likened to a flashbang in reverse.
- Evil Is Petty: It's established in T3: Pilot that Kasumi enjoys tormenting her sisters in subtle and petty little ways for her own amusement, such as by sneakily deleting Nabiki's game save files and stroking Akane's temper to cause her to have severe mood swings.
- Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis: Kasumi became the Tendo family's maternal figure and homemaker after her mother's death. Her turn to villainy was inspired in part by the realization that doing so denied her the opportunity to enjoy her "maiden" years.
- Love Makes You Evil: It's pretty obvious from their interactions that the main thing pushing Kasumi into villainy is her infatuation with "Rae-Rae", which allows the half-demon to manipulate her into indulging her darker thoughts and pushing her ever-deeper into evil.
- Psycho Lesbian: The two attributes aren't explicitly linked, but she's a lesbian and she's a supervillain.
"Rae-Rae"
Rachel "Raven" Roth
Kasumi's mysterious girlfriend, who is implied to be an evil version of Rachel Roth, also known as Raven.- Bi The Way: Although she very clearly is attracted to girls, she mentions that she wouldn't kick Ranma's male form out of her bed either.
- Black Magic: She's a performer of dark spells, most notably when she feeds Shampoo an arcane elixir that turns her into a gozu hanyo.
- Canon Character All Along: She seems like a random evil sorceress... until several things reveal she's the Teen Tyrants version of 'Raven' herself.
- Extra Eyes: She has four eyes in total, with a second pair above her first.
- Fetishized Abuser: It's subtly implied in her first appearance that Kasumi's love for her may not be as reciprocated as Kasumi thinks, and that "Rae-Rae" may actually have sinister goals for the besotted girl.
- Glamor Failure: Whilst she can pass as a human, it's made plain that this is a magical illusion, and it can fail when she gets distracted or emotional, most notably by letting her Extra Eyes be visible.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Similar to her prime universe counterpart, she's the half-demon daughter of Trigon.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The only moniker readers are given to identify her by at the start is Kasumi's affectionate nickname for her; "Rae-Rae".
- Psycho Lesbian: A manipulative, cruel, sinister female black mage in a passionate relationship with another girl.
- Really Gets Around: Openly talks about how she'd like to have sex with Kasumi's younger sister Nabiki... in front of Kasumi.
- Something Only They Would Say: However, her identity is revealed by the invocation Kasumi uses to call on her... Azarath Metrion Zinthos!
- Treacherous Advisor: Rae-Rae is acting as Kasumi's tutor in both magic and villainy, but it's implied she's just using the girl for her own ends.
The Technotaku
The Technotaku
One of the first supervillains that the Teen Titans Tokyo ever faced, he's a Japanese nerd who can somehow bring mecha figurines to life.- Acceptable Targets: The Technotaku is blatantly a slam on otaku culture in Japan, with a good example being that his first attack is centred on the shopping district of Electric Town Akihabara, considered a pilgrimage location by otaku.
- Captain Ersatz: He strongly resembles the Teen Titans villain Control Freak, but given a Japanese otaku twist.
Other Characters
Akane Tendo
Akane Tendo
16 years old and the youngest of the three Tendo daughters, Akane is a kind-hearted but hot-tempered girl who doesn't take kindly to being dethroned as the resident martial arts champion by Ranma.- His Own Worst Enemy: Akane hates having to deal with the gauntlet that Tatewaki arranged every morning, but is unknowingly partially responsible for it continuing. Tatewaki has been trying to stop the boys from attacking, but Akane will attack on them on sight which triggers a retaliation and keeps the cycle going.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Akane was widely considered to be the best martial artist in their part of Furinkan. But when Ranma shows up, he effortlessly defeats her in what is implied to be a humiliating manner.
- Unstoppable Rage: It's implied that this is caused partially by Kasumi knowing every single Berserk Button she has, and pressing them as hard as possible whenever she can.
Tatewaki Kuno
Tatewaki Kuno
Heir to the wealthy megacorp KunoTech, a 17-year-old master of Kendo. Tatewaki was deeply inspired by the Teen Titans unveiling of the corrupt Commander Uehara Daizo, and would love to be a superhero himself... but his many duties don't give him the time to properly devote himself to such a role. When his father contacted him after years of estrangement to put him in charge of Project Sentai, he found a way to live his dream vicariously through the Teen Titans Tokyo.- Adaptational Heroism: In Ranma ½, Tatewaki Kuno is a self-centered, arrogant, insufferable Casanova Wannabe who is constantly harassing Akane Tendo and Ranma Saotome. In Teen Titans Tokyo, he's shown as a genuinely well-intentioned guy who wants to help establish superheroes to protect Tokyo, now that the Tokyo Troopers have been disgraced.
- Hates Their Parent: Downplayed, but Tatewaki refers to his father with nothing but contempt, deriding him as a madman and expressing happiness that he hasn't seen him for years. Whilst Kuno Senior hasn't appeared in the story yet, considering what their relationship was like in canon...
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Tatewaki is a legitimately impressive martial artist, able to unleash Razor Wind attacks and cut through stone like it was butter with a wooden sword. But from Dr. Kei's astounded commentary, his physical abilities pale in comparison to Ranma's.
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: He can jab with his bokken so fast it becomes a blur, allowing him to jackhammer a foe with thrusting attacks faster than they can hope to react.
- Razor Wind: He's capable of pulling off not only this attack but a blunt force version, where the wind pressure from his sword thrusts can shatter stone meters away.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He is not very fond of Nabiki Tendo, and their interactions at the start of T3: Season One make that clear, but he's still willing to put his feelings aside to work with her in her new role as a founding member of the Teen Titans Tokyo.
Rose Wilson
Rose "Ravager" Wilson
A mysterious one-eyed teenage girl who displays formidable martial arts prowess and who has attached herself to Tatewaki Kuno, initally as a bodyguard, but both her and Tatewaki clearly want more.- Bodyguard Crush: She serves as Tatewaki Kuno's underling, to the point he directly calls her his "onmitsu", a role in feudal Japanese society that would roughly translate as "spymaster" or "ninja bodyguard", and there are hints of a ongoing and surprisingly mutual attraction between them.
- Eyepatch of Power: Is always seen wearing an eyepatch.
- Only Straight Man: In many situations, she's the most sensible person there.
Doctor K
Kei Hakase/Doctor K
The mysterious brains behind Project Sentai. A 19-year-old genius science prodigy with an acerbic attitude.- Adults Dressed as Children: While an adult (technically, she's 19), she chooses to wear the Furinkan high uniform for girls in addition to her lab coat.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite living in the fused Ranma/DC universe and personally building a magitek system for Project Sentai, Kei is adamant that "magic" is just misunderstood science or metahuman powers.
- Drives Like Crazy: Implied. Thanks to her super-charged "GO-ONGER" vehicle, she's able to get the Teen Titans Tokyo from Furinkan to Akihabara in two minutes. Before they start out, Nabiki points out that such a drive would normally take about forty-five minutes at minimum.
- Hero of Another Story: Literally, another story...
- Insistent Appellation: Kei insists she be referred to as "Kei" or "Doctor Kei", refusing any use of the family name "Hakase", which is clearly a false name, since it means Professor in Japanese.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Wears a labcoat in addition to her schoolgirl uniform.
Pino
Pino
A schoolgirl who was working in Akihabara at her part-time job when Technotaku wrecks the store and kills the owner... according to her anyway. She's actually a greeter robot who ends up being taken to Furinkan when she slips into the GO-ONGER to 'sleep', ending up enrolled in Furinkan High School while also stumbling across Ranko after she's left to fend for herself by Raven.- Affectionate Parody: Her whole role is a tribute to series like All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku, which somehow have sentient robots, often girls, as part of the cast despite clearly being set in the 1980's, as well as Japan's real-life attempts to make robots which act like humans over the past few decades.
- Artificial Human: A greeter robot who gained sudden sentience, and is slowly turning more and more human.
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: The same boosting ability that empowered all of Technotaku's army has made her faster and stronger than normal... not that she notices since she never knew her original speed or strength.
- Exact Words: She does exactly what she's told in many situations, which can be annoying for some people.
- Hero of Another Story: She first properly appears as Ranko's best (and only) friend and voice of reason during "T3:Kitsune", which takes place alongside Season One.
- Improbable Sports Skills: She smokes her first gym class without really thinking about it, due to the fact no-one told her not to go at top speed.
- Limited Wardrobe: She only owns her work uniform and a school uniform she acquired from 'enrolling' in Furinkan High.
- Really Was Born Yesterday: When she makes her first appearance... she's been alive for maybe five minutes. The Kitsune spin-off is effectively her first few days of life.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: The only way to know she is a robot since she became Pino is that her upper body, normally hidden by her uniform, is very clearly robotic. When she's wearing a long sleeved outfit, she looks completely normal.
- School Uniforms are the New Black: Her normal attire is a school uniform with the classic briefcase school bag. Totally not to hide her upper body with the blazer.
- Shout-Out: She's pretty much Johnny 5 as a robot girl. Her name also is a shout-out to The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Ranko
Ranko Saotome-Tendo
A kitsune who is given life by having Kasumi give birth to a daughter infused with the soul of the curse, making her effectively Ranma and Kasumi's daughter. However, instead of anyone caring about her, she's dumped in the street, with Rae-Rae and Kasumi planning to retrieve her... until she smells something yummy... then collides with a girl leaving Furinkan High...- Big Eater: Almost all her scenes in the first chapter of "T3:Kitsune" has her eating some form of Japanese food... with absymal manners.
- Hero of Another Story: "T3:Kitsune" is ostensibly the story of how she went from a street urchin to a future auxillary member of the Teen Titans Tokyo.
- Really Was Born Yesterday: She's 'born' at the end of Chapter 2 of the main story.
