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Can I just say that the conclusions reached under FamilyUnfriendlyAesop makes absolutely no sense and falls apart when you actually watch the show? And that the show’s not over yet?
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Can I just say that the conclusions reached under FamilyUnfriendlyAesop makes absolutely no sense and falls apart when you actually watch the show? Especially when their biological families were already an important part of their character arcs. And that the show’s not over yet?

I vote to delete that entry, because it is pure FlameBait.
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Right then. Now, Neko Hybrid, since you seem really insistent on this I\'ve taken the time to highlight the general inaccuracies in your additions to this page.

\"Akane acts like she knows how to cook [[LethalChef when she clearly doesn\'t]] and assumes people are just being rude when they justifiably don\'t like her cooking.\"

This is not true. Akane does in fact know she\'s not a good cook. Like, she\'s flat out called food she\'s perpared \"terrible.\"

Also, even if Akane didn\'t know she was a good cook she still wouldn\'t apply to this trope. Akane does not think she\'s a master chef. She doesn\'t try and give Kasumi cooking tips. She won\'t tell Ukyo she\'s cooking wrong. She does nothing of the sort.

\"She also tends to act like she\'s always right and everyone else is always wrong,\"

No she does not. Like, flat out.

Akane often disbeleives Ranma yes, but that\'s because Ranma is a \'\'liar.\'\'

\"most notably how she would refuse to hear Ranma\'s side of the story due to her adamantly believing he\'s a pervert \"

Akane does not \"adamantly beleive he\'s a pervert.\" She called him pervert early on after he saw her naked, and Fanon made it her catch phrase.

\"thinking he invited Shampoo in his bed when she snuck in hits Ranma when he was surprised to see Ukyo in his bed\"

This is not KnowNothingKnowItAll Either. Ranma does not do anything to try and get rid of Shampoo or Ukyo, and in fact has shown he likes their attention so why \'\'shouldn\'t\'\' Akane get mad at him when they try and get into compromising positions? And she doesn\'t even get seriously mad at him. There\'s, like, a panel slapstick gag before the story moves on.


\"always siding with Ryoga when he starts a fight with Ranma\"

This is not true at all.

Here\'s a big example of the fanon in these trope examples. It\'s the old \"stop picking on Ryoga\" fanon. Something Akane does \'\'once\'\' at the start of the Breaking Point arc... when Ranma was picking on Ryoga.

Akane by and large stays out of the fights between Ranma and Ryoga. Seeing it as a \"boys will be boys\" rivalry.

This is, again, not something she does but even if she did it would not be this trope.

\"actually believing Ranma is sick in mind of wanting to steal girls\' underwear when he was trying to locate the Japanese Spring of Drowned Man under the girls\' locker room\"

You mean when he was trying to sneak into the girls locker room? While there were girls \'\'changing in it?\'\' Of course Akane had the right to get mad at Ranma! Not only that but Ranma didn\'t even try to explain anything! Also, Ranma could have just, you know, \'\'waited for school to end.\'\'

This is Ranma doing something \'\'stupid\'\' and getting rightfully castigated for it.

If Akane had loudly proclaimed that she knew that Ranma was going to try and sneak into the girls locker room to the girls and she knew his every secret awful plan but Ranma wasn\'t actually planning on sneaking into the girls locker room then maybe this trope would apply. But, again, that\'s not what happened.

\"interfering with Ranma in the watermelon/snowman race because she thinks Ranma was trying to win a date with Shampoo when he was trying to get back the Phoenix Pill;\"

Akane didn\'t \'\'know\'\' that Cologne would give Ranma the Phoenix Pill if he won. All Akane knew is that Ranma entered a race where the prize was a date with Shampoo. Also everything happens too fast for anything to even be explained.

Again, this is not Akane not knowing anything but proclaiming herself as knowing the answer anyways. This is her not having the full knowlege of an event and acting upon what knowlege she had.

\"seems to believe Ryoga never visited Jusenkyo before despite knowing about his directionally-challenged trait that took him to a lot of places even outside Japan; etc.\"

Why would she? Jusenkyo is a single tiny place in the middle of the Chinese wildernsess. Him having no sense of direction whatsoever makes it even more unlikely that he\'d end up at that one place. Heck, except for Ranma, Genma, and Ryoga everybody in the cast who ends up cursed at Jusenkyo \'\'lives near it.\'\'

And Ryoga only ends up outside of Japan twice, once before the series starts when he\'s chasing down Ranma and once at the end when he goes with Ranma and Mousse to China. It\'s fanon that Ryoga\'s a world traveler, but he really just wanders Japan mostly.

Plus, not knowing a secret that \'\'people conspire to keep from her\'\' is in no way shape or form the KnowNothingNoItAll trope. And this final example seigues nicely into the next inncorrect trope you added to her page.

\" MasterOfDelusion: Beats this trope into the ground when Ryōga/P-chan is concerned. Despite the overwhelming evidence that\'s come her way -- including Ryōga transforming and \"disappearing\" right beside her -- she\'s never put it together that they are the same person.\"

First off, what chapter does this happen?

Second off, Akane isn\'t the only person to not notice a Jusenkyo curse change happening close by. It\'s used as a recurring gag with plenty of other people for a sudden change and them not noticing. People haven\'t noticed right away that Ranma suddenly loses a foot in height and grows breasts until they pull his shirt open.

\"In the Mark of a God arc, she noticed the mark drawn on both Ryōga and her pet, and concluded that \"the same person must have drawn on both of them!\"

OccamsRazor. \"Somebody doodled on P-chan\" is the much simpler explanation than \"My friend has been lying to me and is a shapeshifter pretending to be my pet and my fiance is in on it.\" Not to mention that, perhaps, Akane doesn\'t think that her friend is capable of such a thing?

Like, this is actually really gross. Akane is the \'\'victim\'\' here. Ryoga is taking advantage of her and Ranma is allowing it to happen. Yet there are people who try and say she\'s \"stupid\" for being lied to. For being groped and leered at. This is, like, the worst thing Ryoga does and is basically glossed over and ignored once he makes his HeelFaceTurn.

\"She also never picks up the subtle hints when Ranma would taunt Ryoga by calling him P-chan\"

Ranma does not drop \"subtle hints.\" He will, at most, taunt Ryoga early on about it. If Ranma really wanted to tell Akane Ryoga is P-chan all he had to do was \'tell her\'... like he almost did \'\'twice\'\' in the series before getting interuppted.

\"MisplacedRetribution: She constantly uses Ranma as a whipping boy whenever she gets angry, even when she\'s aware Ranma had nothing to do with it.\"

Do you know what slapstick is? When Akane hits Ranma, it\'s slapstick. It\'s not serious, it\'s the equivalant of her glaring at him. Or at most, a DopeSlap. This is not Ranma being used as a \"whipping boy\" this is her expressing annoyance at him before the story moves on and both she and Ranma forget about it.

Like when Ranma is learning the Umisenken. He asks Akane for help, Akane hits him on the head with a cartoon hammer and tells him not to sneak into his room, and then the very next panel asks what he needs her to do and she\'ll do anything to help him.

In the context of Ranma 1/2, Akane\'s actions are perfectly normal and done by \'\'everybody\'\' in the cast.

\"Nabiki takes compromising pictures of her and sells them, particularly to Kuno? Rebuke Nabiki, but then beat Ranma up.\"

Akane didn\'t beat Ranma up for Nabiki\'s actions. She beat Ranma up because because he said, and I quote: \"As if anybody\'s want pictures of a dorky girl anyway! I don\'t know how you\'ll ever find a husband. Now \'\'me\'\' on the other hand...\"

I don\'t know about you but I think that\'s a fairly legit thing for her to be mad at him for.

\"Shampoo engages in criminal trespass to sneak or simply steam-roll her way into the Tendo household for the sake of causing mischief? Beat Ranma up.\"

First off, this only happens early on in the series. Shampoo\'s only sneaks into the Tendo household early on, before she\'s established into the story. Later on her schemes take place outside the Tendo home and when she does visit it\'s usually for other reasons like warning him about Pink and Link or when Mousse gets a power up. And, again, it\'s not \"beat Ranma up\" it\'s \"slapstick joke panel expressing her annoyance.\"

\"Genma sells off Ranma\'s hand in marriage to another fiance who then comes calling? Beat Ranma up.\"

Nope!

Akane hits Genma when he calls Ukyo Ranma\'s fiancee. Then as Genma tells the story, all the other girls \'\'but\'\' Akane (and including Ukyo) beat Ranma and Genma up over it. Akane then gets a little upset when Ranma calls Ukyo \"cute\" but only tries to kick him after he calls her \"uncute.\"

Akane is, in fact, the only girl who \'\'didn\'t\'\' beat Ranma up when another fiancee showed up. This includes the other fiancee!

\"Her own father hits her on the head with a mallet to drag her to the altar for a shot-gun wedding? Punch Ranma through the ceiling!\"

Akane didn\'t punt Ranma through the roof for that. She punted her through the roof for calling her fat afterwords.

\"NeverMyFault: She doesn\'t always take responsibility for what goes wrong, and will recurrently assume that it is Ranma\'s fault.\"

It usually is Ranma\'s fault. The only time I can think of where it\'s Akane\'s fault is...

\"Such as when breaking the balcony which endangered Nabiki, she is upset that Ranma saved Nabiki instead of herself, which caused a sprained ankle. \"

Akane being upset at Ranma for helping out Nabiki is, in fact, a time when she\'s \'\'in the wrong.\'\' She had been having a serious argument with Nabiki, with Ranma joining in with mocking her. So when Ranma helps Nabiki instead of her she overracts thanks to already being super upset at Nabiki.

It\'s notable that this arc, with Akane in the wrong, does in fact end with Akane and Ranma apologizing and making up over it. Akane admits she was wrong to fight with Nabiki and put Ranma in the middle of it.

Doesn\'t apply to NeverMyFault unless every arugment people have ever applies to this trope

\" She also off-on thinks that the people who dislike her cooking are just being rude.\"

Not really? Like, a handful of times she\'ll try and get people to try something she\'s cooked but most of the time when it comes to Ranma he is, in fact, rude about it.

\"She will often admit to herself when she\'s gone too far and hurt Ranma for thing that weren\'t his fault, but [[CannotSpitItOut she won\'t actually say it out loud.]]\"

This directly contridts the trope it\'s an example of. If Akane admits even to herself that something is her fault then it NeverMyFault does not apply. NeverMyFault is about people who refuse to aknowlege their own blame.

\"NiceJobBreakingItHero: She tends to make things much more difficult than necessary for Ranma due to how she wrongfully assumes he\'s being the pervert she believes him to be. \"

First off, as I mentioned, Akane does not reguarly assume Ranma is a pervert. There are times when Ranma is looking perverted, but she does not call him one or think he\'s one with any regularity.

I already covered the Watermellon race mostly. But it also doesn\'t apply to this trope either because Akane trying to do the right thing did not make things worse. Concidering that Shampoo herself tried to stop Akane from winning, it\'s actually implied that if Akane had won she would have gotten the Phoenix Pill herself (Which she would have immediately given to Ranma.)

\"Interfering with Ranma\'s fight against Hinako because she thought he was trying to molest her when he was actually trying to get her pressure points to seal away Hinako\'s ki-draining ability. He even shows her the chart, but instead she wrongfully assumes he\'s trying to molest Hinako.\"

Akane didn\'t actually \'\'see\' the chart. Ranma\'s attempting to explain it to Akane, and he phrases the first part in the worst possible way that he\'s \"only going after Miss Hinako.\" Akane hears this and immediately goes into a HeroicBSOD. She turns away from him and doesn\'t actually see the chart. Then when she\'s crying and asks Ranma why he\'s after Miss Hinako, he again says the dumbest thing possible and says \"sure you have a small chest\".

It\'s PoorCommunicationKills, not NiceJobBreakingItHero.

\"Following Ryoga\'s instruction to tell him she hates him in order to learn the Ultimate Shishi Hokodan, which he uses on Ranma in the next fight\"

This is Akane yet again assuming that OccamsRazor applies. Which, admitedly, is a flaw to have in this comic\'s universe. She didn\'t really get why Ryoga was asking him to tell her she hated him, and was clearly confused by his reaction afterwords since her saying something he asked her to say shouldn\'t effect him that much.

\"Then she makes it worse in her attempt to patch it up by saying to Ryoga \"Let\'s be friends forever!\", which only makes him \'\'more\'\' depressed as he took it as being [[JustFriends friend-zoned]]\"

You know, this bit actually \'\'does\'\' apply to the NiceJobBreakingItHero trope. Since Akane is OblviousToLove she doesn\'t realize that trying to appeal to Ryoga by using her friendship with him is going to backfire, and it does hilariously.

I hope this clarifies things as to \'\'why\'\' I removed those trope examples. Because they either didn\'t happen, or the context you wrote them as happening in is incorrect. (Except for the last bit, that was be being a bit overzealous due to everything else not applying)

The reason I clean up a lot of stuff about Akane is that, well, she has a lot of false negative traits and fanon atributed to her. If TVTropes had existed before Harry Potter came out RonTheDeathEater would probably be called something like \"Akane the Abuser.\" She\'s one of \'\'the\'\' biggest examples it thanks to the convoluted situation of the Ranma 1/2 fanfic scene in the early internet days.
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