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Author: Jupiah

Dec 31st 2008 at 11:57:50 AM

I'm convinced, this is tropable. You should mention how this is a very common justification for [[BadassNormal Badass Normals]] in the final writeup though. Now for example:

This is how [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma Saotome]] is able to regularly defeat his rival Ryoga Hibiki. Ryoga is insanely strong and durable due to his WalkingTheEarth lifestyle, but his martial arts skills are mostly self-taught. Ranma, who spent ten years training in martial arts with his father, is able to overcome the large difference in physical power between them with sheer skill. Eventually, they become almost evenly matched, as Ryoga's constant fights with Ranma improve his skill considerably.

This trope is pretty commonplace in RanmaOneHalf actually. Ranma also defeated Prince Herb, who far outclassed him in pretty much every way possible, by using a technique to gather up all of the energy Herb was giving off and turning it against him. Happosai is a frail old man, but he can easily toss far stronger opponents through walls or over the horizon by redirecting their momentum with a pipe.