History Fanfic / DarkTitans

** During the Titans' stay at Juketsuzoku, Raven learns to sense her surroundings by expanding her aura over them. Later on, after Mousse [[spoiler: blinds her, she uses this ability as a temporary replacement for her sight]].

* BrickJoke: Fairly early in ''Dark Titans'', Cyborg reveals to Ryouga that the T-Brella has a helicopter option. They then proceed to discuss the helicopter option until it drives Robin nuts. It is then never mentioned nor used again in ''Dark Titans.'' Then, in ''Reflections Lost on a Dark Road'', it's used as a rather humorous instance of a ChekovsGun.

* BrickJoke: Fairly early in ''Dark Titans'', Cyborg reveals to Ryouga that the T-Brella has a helicopter option. They then proceed to discuss the helicopter option until it drives Robin nuts. It is then never mentioned nor used again for the (current) duration of ''Dark Titans''.

* RunningGag: Used ''magnificently''. ''Nobody'' can lay a hand on Kasumi while she's at HIVE to the point where even Brother Blood is affected by her YamatoNadeshiko-ness. [[spoiler: So when Blood foils Nabiki's BatmanGambit [[HostageSituation by putting an energy blade to Kasumi's neck]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and telling Nabiki she's not ruthless enough to be a]] ''real'' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech supervillain like himself]], it comes ''completely'' out of left field for both the readers and the characters.]]

* RunningGag: Used ''magnificently''. ''Nobody'' can lay a hand on Kasumi while she's at HIVE to the point where even Brother Blood is affected by her YamatoNadeshiko-ness. [[spoiler: So when Blood foils Nabiki's BatmanGambit [[HostageSituation by putting an energy blade to Kasumi's neck]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and telling Nabiki she's not ruthless enough to be a]] ''[[CompleteMonster real]]'' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech supervillain like himself]], it comes ''completely'' out of left field for both the readers and the characters.]]

This series comes highly recommended by [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/Ptitlegynukzwikxmd Ranma fans]] and [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/TeenTitans Titans fans]] alike.

* [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap Rescued From The Buttmonkey Heap:]] As one of the page author's friends put it, "[[{{Pokemon}} Look, Kunou is evolving!]] Kunou evolved into LargeHam!"

* TheCameo: Brushogun draws up copies of [[SailorMoon Sailor Saturn]], [[NeonGenesisEvangelion EVA-01]], [[{{Akira}} Tetsuo]], and [[DragonballZ Son Goku]] to fight Ranma and the crew for the final battle of the Tokyo arc.

--> '''Nabiki:''' You've seen {{Akira}}?
--> '''Gizmo:''' "Please, it's a movie about a dystopian future where science goes mad, ''of course'' I've seen {{Akira}}!"

* ZeroChops: Despite being skilled combatants, Ryouga and Starfire manage this when their grapple degrades into pinching, biting, and hair pulling.

* StayWithTheAliens: Stay with the super-beings, more like. ''TALB'' ends with the Nerima Wrecking Crew breaking up into about five or six different groups; Ranma and Akane go back to Japan, Nabiki takes off to lead the HIVE Five, Kasumi and Ryouga stick with the Titans, the Kunou and Ukyou join Titans East, the Amazons ''try'' to go home but get derailed into visiting [[{{Superman}} Metropolis]], and Happosai takes Jinx under his wing and goes on a training trip that eventually takes him to [[spoiler: Gotham City.]]

* UnequalPairing: Ryoga and Raven ever getting intimate would result in him unwillingly crushing her body while she fried his brain. Cyborg and Kasumi also qualifies. In terms of personalities they should work out great, but he largely is and looks like a machine. If he remodelled into a human-looking body with extreme movement fine-tuning it could work though.

** Later lampshaded by Cyborg.

* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Brainwashed Brainwashed]]: Ryouga, Mousse, Tatewaki, Nabiki, and Kasumi (but not Happosai, who was just bribed).

** By taxing her limits Starfire also manages to match Saffron, an immortal capable of vaporising a mountain, which seems a tad extreme, but worked well for narrative purposes.

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Initially, in Titans and the Lost Boy, Ryouga (and by extension, the rest of the Ranma crew), as well as Starfire and Cyborg are all drastically reduced in strength. As the story progressed, the author has been slowly been bringing them back up to their appropriate levels, as per showings in their respective anime and animated source materials. Ryouga and Starfire are represented as close in strength(a concious choice by the author, as she is alluded to be stronger than Cyborg in several cases, which is another case of powerseep_, with the later having a minor, but noticeable edge. Cyborg, who's top showing in the animated series include tearing up an office building and using it as a bludgeon, is an order of magnitude stronger than either of them.
Since the author is using the Ranma anime and Titan's animated series as alpha canon(for observable combat feats, as opposed to trying to extrapolate from static page images), and the Ranma manga and Titans Go comic as Beta canon, quickly followed by the DCAU and other animated DC shows as third canon, followed finally by the actual DC comic lines for the lowest level of canon, this means that the speed and skill feats for the Ranma crew are still superior to the Titan's cast, it is not by an insurmountable level. Again, this was done as a balance issue, and for fairness sake, as both manga and comics have showings far in excess of those shown in the animated formats.
** The Titans also went through a week or two of TrainingFromHell during their stopover in the Amazon village, and the Nerima B- and C-listers got similar training during their time at H.I.V.E.
** Subverted by Terra in Titan Rising: being fused with the Earth for a couple months gave her a colossal power boost, but her control issues are as bad as they've ever been. Now she needs Ryouga to train a subconscious PowerLimiter into her to reduce the risk of her leveling the city every time she fights.

* RunningGag: Used ''magnificently''. ''Nobody'' can lay a hand on Kasumi while she's at HIVE to the point where even Brother Blood is affected by her YamatoNadeshiko-ness. [[spoiler: So when Blood foils Nabiki's XanatosGambit [[HostageSituation by putting an energy blade to Kasumi's neck]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and telling Nabiki she's not ruthless enough to be a]] ''[[CompleteMonster real]]'' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech supervillain like himself]], it comes ''completely'' out of left field for both the readers and the characters.]]

* XanatosGambit: Cologne pulls one off to [[spoiler: demonstrate how outdated the customs of Juketsuzoku are.]] Nabiki pulls one off to [[spoiler: escape H.A.E.Y.P. Academy, defeat the Headmaster, and obtain everything she needs to start her own team of supervillains.]] Cologne pulls one off to [[spoiler: avoid working with Happosai.]] Lex Luthor pulls one off to [[spoiler: obtain an army of meta-martial artists.]]

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Ryouga and the entire Ranma cast are severely depowered in strength, speed, precision, and generally skill, to greatly accommodate the Titans, especially Starfire. On the other hand, othervise even Akane would be able to take all of them out before they had a chance to react, but it is turning increasingly selectively favouring nevertheless.

* ImHavingSoulPains: Starfire after being [[spoiler: [[MindRape "interrogated" by X-COM]]]]

* LethalChef: Akane

* LightIsNotGood: Traditionally, phoenixes are portrayed as holy symbols of life, light, and hope. Not Saffron. Especially disturbing symbolic imagery when set against Raven's entropic chaos and nothingness.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Starfire and Ryouga

The story continues in ''Dark Titans'', which changes things up a bit; instead of focusing on a single chain of events, the story is split up into distinct arcs, with each arc focusing on a different group of characters following the aftermath of ''TALB'''s grand finale with bits of the others thrown in occasionally for variety.

* '''Big Trouble In Little Tokyo:''' The sudden appearance of Brushogun forces Ranma to assemble his own Super Hero team to deal with an enemy he can't possibly handle on his own.

After ''FanFic/DarkTitans'' comes ''FanFic/ReflectionsLostOnADarkRoad'', a [[MegaCrossover crossover fic]] written by [[FanFic/DarkTitans Lathis]] and [[FanFic/TheRoadToCydonia Cap'n Chryssalid]].

--> '''Starfire:''' "You may burn like the heart of the volcano itself. But I. I- ''I burn like a '''star'''!''"