History Characters / RanmaOneHalfTheChinese

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* {{Expy}}: Of Lum from ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' in terms of appearance (including a planned but dropped color-scheme -- see below), nature as an exotic and affectionate yet violently possessive girl, FunnyForeigner InUniverse status (Chinese Amazon compared to AncientAstronauts {{Yokai}}), and her AccidentalMarriage to the main character. However, even when she's as violent as Lum, Shampoo is more scheming and less irascible.

* AccidentalMarriage: When she met Ranma as a man for the first time, he accidentally defeated her by breaking her weapon, causing its head to fall onto hers and knock her out cold. According to the law of her village, Shampoo is engaged to Ranma because he beat her... when, ironically, his ''beating'' her as a guy was an accident. That said, he purposefully defeated her when they first met, so once the detail of the curse was straightened out, that probably "counted" by Chinese Amazon law.

** She's by far the most dexterous girl of Ranma's UnwantedHarem, all in combat, girliness, housework, cooking, you name it. Problem is, she's rather prone to disregard people as obstacles in her way. The Magazine/ShonenSunday special that provided the [[PowerLevels "ability scores"]] of the cast even denotes her as the most powerful of all Ranma's would-be love interests, with maxed-out Heart and Technique scores of 5, a near-maxed Speed score of 4, and 3s for both Power and Stamina. The only girl with a higher ability score than Shampoo is Ukyō, whose Intelligence of 4 is double Shampoo's INT 2. By the same measure, she's also faster, has better Technique, and has vastly superior Heart compared to Mousse.
** In a more direct sense, Shampoo is the champion warrior of her village.

* {{Animorphism}}: Her curse turns her into a pink cat when soaked in cold water. This curse is absolutely terrible for her, because Ranma [[AbsurdPhobia is terrified of cats]].

** When she learns that "the two Ranmas" are one and the same, after attacking Ranma in a fury after being told that the female form is the real one, she ultimately stops and leaves, weeping at having had her heart broken.

** In the Reversal Jewel arc, it's shown that Shampoo very much acts the way she does towards Ranma because ''she loves him'', and not because of what her laws demand; whilst under the effects of the titular magical item, which has reversed her feelings towards Ranma, Ranma formally challenges her to a match with her hand as the prize. When he wins, a tearful Shampoo defiantly spits that he may have her hand, but he will never have her heart, which is when the realization of what he's doing sinks in and Ranma runs away in shame.

* BadassAdorable: Shampoo is both cute and a fighter. She even attacked the Jusenkyō Enforcer while she was in cat form to stop him from repeatedly drowning Ranma. Her cat form is also remarked as being adorable
* BaitTheDog: After Mousse pushes himself past his limit in an attempt to beat Ranma, Shampoo turns him into a duck to make him stop and appears to be worried about him, making Akane think Shampoo does care for him deep down. Then Ranma and Akane see Shampoo bullying Mousse in duck form, proving her cruel treatment of him hasn't changed.

* BestHerToBedHer: Shampoo is engaged to Ranma by virtue of having been defeated in combat by him as per her village's rules. This is the very same reason why she doesn't entertain Mousse's challenges, as even when he may be able to defeat her, she doesn't give him the opportunity.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Simply put, she has a bizarre set of ethics due to being raised in a warrior women culture. Nobody's ever quite managed to figure out how she thinks the world works. For example, she doesn't mind assaulting Akane, whom she perceives to be a rival for Ranma's attention, but she would chat cordially with Akane's sister, Kasumi. When Nabiki tries to auction Ranma off, Shampoo attempts to kill her. Considering that even ''Kodachi's'' first thought was to pay up instead of hurting Nabiki, that's saying a lot. However, when confronted with a proper challenge, Shampoo does attempt to win fairly unlike Kodachi who would simply cheat.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: To Lum from ''Manga/UruseiYatsura''. Shampoo is very likely what Lum would have been if she had stayed an antagonistic love rival to the female lead as Rumiko originally planned until the readers and editors forced her to make Lum the main love interest. While both are {{Genki Girl}}s who pursue the male lead because of an AccidentalMarriage, Shampoo mostly lacks Lum's more sympathetic traits as she's much more callous to others except for Ranma and her attempts to make Ranma hers are quite devious while Lum was mainly a ClingyJealousGirl who just took out her anger on Ataru. Shampoo is also more methodical and less irascible than Lum.

* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Downplayed but, yes, really! Shampoo is ''very'' into the idea of Ranma doing the "white knight" routine for her, and in both the New Year's Cat Ghost story and the Pink & Link story is shown deliberately allowing herself to be used as a hostage so she can revel in having Ranma fighting to save her for once. She's even been shown daydreaming about Ranma kissing her awake, Sleeping Beauty style.

** Mousse rarely appeals to support the relationship between Ranma and Akane, even when this would benefit him considerably. This is due to the fact that said liaison doesn't deter Shampoo from pursuing Ranma, so he rather focuses on getting rid of Ranma.

The only recurring villain of the series outside of the main cast, who appears in three stories, Pantyhose Tarō was named by Happōsai (as if you couldn't guess) and unintentionally baptized by him in the "Spring of Drowned Ox-Riding, Crane and Eel-Carrying, Yeti". As his cursed form is a powerful monster, as opposed to a girl or a small animal, Pantyhose Tarō has no problems with his Jusenkyō form (it also helps that he has lived with it from the moment he was born), but hates Happōsai with a vengeance for his name and is dedicated to having him change it... by his village lore, Happōsai is the only person in the world who ''can'' do this, so if he can't make the old pervert see sense, he'll live with the name "Pantyhose Tarō" for the rest of his life. Between his first and second stories, he somehow manages to use "Spring of Drowned Octopus" water to give his cursed form giant tentacles, and become even stronger.

* BigBad: The closest the series gets to one, with him being a reoccurring ArcVillain who has appeared multiple times.
* BoringYetPractical: His preferred moves are quite simple yet effective, starting from staging his showdown with the Nerima Wrecking Crew in a place filled with sudden springwater to turn them in their weaker forms and himself in a monster.
* TheBully: Relishes the power of his cursed form and uses it to beat up and terrify others into submitting to him.
* CombatTentacles: In his second and third appearances.

* CursedWithAwesome: Crisscrosses with BlessedWithSuck as he doesn't actually mind it, having lived with it his whole life. While he's ''at least'' skilled enough to give Ranma a serious run for his money, with similar speed and agility, and is much wilier and cunning, his titanic cursed form's size, strength, and [[FasterThanTheyLook the surprising speed it retains despite its bulk]], give him a hell of a trump card with some cold water. In other words, while other characters are overall weaker in their cursed form, Pantyhose Tarō's forms actually makes him ''stronger'' once he changes.. In fact, when other characters believe his beef with Happōsai is this curse, he states that he doesn't mind it at all.

* GiantFlyer: His cursed form is a mass of solid muscle several stories tall, and yet his wings are appropriately crane-sized. He still pulls off fancy aerial maneuvers and can fly fast enough to travel from deep mainland China all the way to Japan within an afternoon.

* {{Jerkass}}: Regardless of his motivations and grudges, he's a pretty rude and unapologetic asshole.

* LightningBruiser: His cursed form.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Pantyhose Tarō's cursed form is apparently constructed with the premise of "what types of creatures would you have to mix to create something more-or-less archetypical demonic-looking?" Answer: You toss a yeti, an ox, an eel and a crane into one Jusenkyō Spring, and get a creature with the frame of a yeti, the head and hooves of an ox, an eel as a tail... and a pair of crane, rather than bat, wings, which is the only odd one out. He is even [[LampshadeHanging referred to as a "demon-lord"]] in [[ZanyScheme the play Ranma set up for Happōsai]]. Later he turns into a spoof of a "tentacle-demon" by adding "Spring of Drowned Octopus" to the concoction... with the bonus of shooting blinding ink blasts from his fingers.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He repeatedly calls Ranma "okama yaro", a term with some rather homophobic/transphobic meaning.

* UnskilledButStrong: In order to get stronger, rather than training and honing his skills like all the other characters, his solution is to dunk himself into yet another accursed spring and gain upgrades to his [[MixAndMatchCritters cursed form]] like octopus tentacles. That is not to say he lacks skill as a human, though: his one-on-one matches with Ranma show off his combat speed, technique, and agility, to the point he can kick female Ranma out of the air near-instantly and can overwhelm the same with a RapidFireFisticuffs barrage, which, ironically, is ''Ranma's'' preferred move.

* MurderTheHypotenuse: Greatly overstated in {{Fanon}}; while she doesn't seem to have any qualms about contemplating it, she won't actually try it unless she's got a very, very good chance of being able to get away with it cleanly, and she will easily shrug and let it go if it turns inconvenient or stops being important (in the manga with Miss Hinako, for example; she's fine with nulling the KissOfDeath and letting Ranma handle her when he brings the subject up). Still, she did once say, "Obsticle is for killing."