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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Those who don't think of Mousse as a JerkassWoobie (and even some who do) typically regard Shampoo's mistreatment of him as this. It shows she can be cold, cruel and callous, yes, but, as they point out, Mousse is a blatant StalkerWithACrush who has been harrassing her for thirteen years before the series starts, at least, and chased her to Japan openly declaring his intention was to MurderTheHypotenuse. Shampoo makes it extremely clear in both continuities that she does not love Mousse and has never loved him (making Mousse's attempt to beat Ranma to make him "give her up" clearly more using him as a scapegoat than anything), rather than this being a case of BelligerentSexualTension. Not only does she continually refuse his efforts to kiss her during one story in which she is looking at being [[ForcedTransformation turned into a cat forever]] if she can't be kissed, insisting that the only way the kiss will work is if she loves the person she kisses, the manga has a {{filler}} story where she hears that it sounds like Mousse is going to die... and couldn't care less. While Ranma (who Mousse has tried to kill or at least humiliate dozens of times), Cologne (who sees Mousse as an annoyance at best) and [[ChronicHeroSyndrome Akane]] desperately race to save Mousse, Shampoo promptly turns on her Platform/SuperNintendo and starts playing games, leaving Akane, who was trying to warn her, to go storming off in disgust.
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* HeavierThanItLooks:
** When Ryoga confronts Ranma on the Furinkan High School grounds, he launches his umbrella at Ranma. Ranma easily dodges it, and it ends up on the ball field. One boy tries to pick up Ryoga's umbrella, but can't budge it. Akane tries, and though she succeeds, she needs both hands and all her strength to lift it. She remarks in awe that Ryoga wields it with just one arm like an ordinary umbrella.
** In the OVA episode featuring the Phoenix, Akane, one of the more petite girls in the series, falls from the sky and is caught by Shampoo. Shampoo is super strong, frequently walking through walls because doors are inconvenient and capable of shattering boulders with her chúi. So it's telling when Akane lands on her and Shampoo looks pained and says "[[YouNoTakeCandle Akane, when you get so heavy?]]", and Akane can only look sheepish.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Those who don't think of Mousse as a JerkassWoobie (and even some who do) typically regard Shampoo's mistreatment of him as this. It shows she can be cold, cruel and callous, yes, but, as they point out, Mousse is a blatant StalkerWithACrush who has been harrassing her for thirteen years before the series starts, at least, and chased her to Japan openly declaring his intention was to MurderTheHypotenuse. Shampoo makes it extremely clear in both continuities that she does not love Mousse and has never loved him (making Mousse's attempt to beat Ranma to make him "give her up" clearly more using him as a scapegoat than anything), rather than this being a case of BelligerentSexualTension. Not only does she continually refuse his efforts to kiss her during one story in which she is looking at being [[ForcedTransformation turned into a cat forever]] if she can't be kissed, insisting that the only way the kiss will work is if she loves the person she kisses, the manga has a {{filler}} story where she hears that it sounds like Mousse is going to die... and couldn't care less. While Ranma (who Mousse has tried to kill or at least humiliate dozens of times), Cologne (who sees Mousse as an annoyance at best) and [[ChronicHeroSyndrome Akane]] desperately race to save Mousse, Shampoo promptly turns on her UsefulNotes/SuperNintendo and starts playing games, leaving Akane, who was trying to warn her, to go storming off in disgust.

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Those who don't think of Mousse as a JerkassWoobie (and even some who do) typically regard Shampoo's mistreatment of him as this. It shows she can be cold, cruel and callous, yes, but, as they point out, Mousse is a blatant StalkerWithACrush who has been harrassing her for thirteen years before the series starts, at least, and chased her to Japan openly declaring his intention was to MurderTheHypotenuse. Shampoo makes it extremely clear in both continuities that she does not love Mousse and has never loved him (making Mousse's attempt to beat Ranma to make him "give her up" clearly more using him as a scapegoat than anything), rather than this being a case of BelligerentSexualTension. Not only does she continually refuse his efforts to kiss her during one story in which she is looking at being [[ForcedTransformation turned into a cat forever]] if she can't be kissed, insisting that the only way the kiss will work is if she loves the person she kisses, the manga has a {{filler}} story where she hears that it sounds like Mousse is going to die... and couldn't care less. While Ranma (who Mousse has tried to kill or at least humiliate dozens of times), Cologne (who sees Mousse as an annoyance at best) and [[ChronicHeroSyndrome Akane]] desperately race to save Mousse, Shampoo promptly turns on her UsefulNotes/SuperNintendo Platform/SuperNintendo and starts playing games, leaving Akane, who was trying to warn her, to go storming off in disgust.
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** The official illustrations used for the manga covers give most of the main characters varied palettes for their hair, which may depend on the particular palette used in the given illustration. For instance, Girl!Ranma may have black, purple, pink or red hair depending on the particular illustration.
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** Asuza never pays for her kleptomaniac tendencies, in which she steals things in plain view, sometimes right IN FRONT OF the owners. She also has no problems beating up the owners to get said cute thing of the hour. In a sense, she's basically MUGGING people and always getting away with it. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised that some of the things she's got stashed in her house she stole from little kids...

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** Asuza never pays for her kleptomaniac tendencies, in which she steals things in plain view, sometimes right IN FRONT OF the owners. She also has no problems beating up the owners to get said cute thing of the hour. In a sense, she's basically MUGGING people and always getting away with it. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised that some of the things she's got stashed in her house she stole from little kids...
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* LoudspeakerTruckLoudspeakerTruck: The [[{{Macekre}} Mexican dub]] renders it as [[{{Woolseyism}} Oaxacan tamales]]. It may be worth noting here that there are similar trucks in similar roles in Mexico.
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* LoveInterestVsLustInterest:
** Ranma has many romantic interests, some on the "Love" side, others on the "Lust" side. Shampoo, for example, wants him because he bested her in combat, and by the law of her clan, she has to marry him to add his strength to theirs (i.e., she needs him to father her children). Ukyo, on the other hand, was a childhood friend of Ranma's who came in with every intention of killing him, believing he had betrayed her (he hadn't, but Genma has certainly made it seem that way), and after the misunderstanding was cleared up, it's clear that she likes spending time with Ranma and they quickly return to their old friendly dynamic from their youth.
** Likewise, Akane, when she's not being hostile to Ranma, genuinely loves him, admiring his more positive qualities. Kodachi Kuno, on the other hand, sees him as a conquest, hoping that he will take her SacredFirstKiss...after she paralyzes him, first, of course.
** Lest we think that the girls are the only ones guilty of lust vs. love, Akane's many suitors play to this as well. Tatewaki Kuno is a first-rate pervert who openly seeks to two-time Akane with "The Pig-tailed Girl" (unbeknownst to him, Ranma), outright buying salacious pictures of Girl-Type Ranma from Nabiki, as well as pictures of her sister, Akane, working out in the dojo. By comparison, Ranma's other rival, Ryoga, clearly loves Akane, going so far as to say that he [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy would gladly support Akane no matter who she chose]], except of course, Ranma himself, as Ryoga still bears him a grudge for the whole being cursed to turn into a pig thing.

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** In an early arc, Ranma manages to cure Akane of a Shampoo-induced memory loss technique that made her forget him by insulting her so much she gets mad and goes after him. In the anime, his dad even has it repeating on a large stereo and does some freestyle [=DJing=] with it.
** Akane insults Ranma to wake him up from unconsciousness after he [[TakingTheBullet takes the brunt]] of an attack that slammed him into a wall [[MadeOfIron hard enough to shatter every bone in a normal person's body.]]
---> '''Akane:''' [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Ranma?]] [[PleaseWakeUp Ranma, wake up!]] You didn't… you didn't need to save me… ''RANMA YOU IDIOT!!''\\
''[snap]''\\
'''Ranma:''' [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Who are you calling an idiot?!]] I save you and this is the thanks I get?!
* IntimacyViaHorror: {{Subverted|Trope}} in the Kairaishi Mushroom story. Akane is watching a scary movie, sneezes, and Ranma suddenly appears to hold her tightly. Akane freaks out and {{megaton punch}}es him, thinking that Ranma is trying to take advantage of her, but what actually happened is that Shampoo gave Ranma a mushroom that causes him to hug anyone who sneezes.
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* IntimateLotionApplication: During a field trip to Hawaii, the male students in class eat a hallucinogenic fruit that makes them all think Ranma is their newlywed wife, and one of the "romantic newlywed activities" they force Ranma to go through is holding her down so they can all rub suntan screen on her back, much to her distress. Later she finds one one of them pulled a SuntanStencil and spelled "love" on her back.
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** Averted with Ranma since he inherits Genma's black hair (which he no longer has) rather than his mother's brown. The red hair is justified due to the curse.

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** Averted with Ranma since he inherits Genma's black hair (which he no longer has) rather than red from his mother's brown. The mother, Nodoka. Ranma's red hair is justified due to the curse.
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* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Averts this as male fighters are known to use projectiles (e.g Happo-Fire Burst), the female fighters usually favor melee weapons.

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* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Averts this as Averted. The male fighters usually fight up close but are known to use projectiles (e.g Happo-Fire Burst), the Burst). The female fighters also usually favor melee weapons.
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* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Averts this as male fighters are known to use projectiles (e.g Happo-Fire Burst), the female fighters usually favor melee weapons.
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** Averted with Ranma since he inherits Genma's black hair rather than his mother's brown. The red hair is justified due to the curse.

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** Averted with Ranma since he inherits Genma's black hair (which he no longer has) rather than his mother's brown. The red hair is justified due to the curse.
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** Shampoo and Young!Cologne have purple and blue hair respectively despite being Chinese.

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** Shampoo and Young!Cologne have purple and blue hair respectively despite being Chinese. Ling-Ling and Lung-Lung also have magenta and green hair respectively.
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** Shampoo and Young!Cologne have purple and blue hair respectively despite being Chinese. Averted with Mousse.

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** Shampoo and Young!Cologne have purple and blue hair respectively despite being Chinese. Averted with Mousse.
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** Averted with Ranma since he inherits Genma's black hair rather than his mother' brown. The red hair is justified due to the curse.

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** Averted with Ranma since he inherits Genma's black hair rather than his mother' mother's brown. The red hair is justified due to the curse.
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** Averted with Ranma since he inherits Genma's black hair rather than his mother' brown. The red hair is justified due to the curse.

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* ImplausibleHairColor: The Tendo Family in the anime. Soun has jet black hair while Kasumi and Nabiki has brown. Akane and her mother have blue hair, [[HairColorDissonance though it can also represent black]]. Averted in the manga as Takahashi gives them all a shade of black.

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* ImplausibleHairColor: Despite Nerima being a Japanese setting, brown seems to be the most common hair color in the anime. The manga averts this by giving most characters a shade of black.
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The Tendo Family in the anime. Soun has jet black hair while Kasumi and Nabiki has brown. Akane and her mother have blue hair, [[HairColorDissonance though it can also represent black]].
** The Kuno Household in the anime. Tatewaki Kuno and Principal Kuno have brown hair while Kodachi has black.
** Shampoo and Young!Cologne have purple and blue hair respectively despite being Chinese.
Averted in the manga as Takahashi gives them all a shade of black. with Mousse.
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* ImplausibleHairColor: The Tendo Family in the anime. Soun has jet black hair while Kasumi and Nabiki has brown. Akane and her mother have blue hair, [[HairColorDissonance though it can also represent black]]. Averted in the manga and Takahashi gives them all a shade of black.

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* ImplausibleHairColor: The Tendo Family in the anime. Soun has jet black hair while Kasumi and Nabiki has brown. Akane and her mother have blue hair, [[HairColorDissonance though it can also represent black]]. Averted in the manga and as Takahashi gives them all a shade of black.
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* ImplausibleHairColor: The Tendo Family in the anime. Soun has jet black hair while Kasumi and Nabiki has brown. Akane and her mother have blue hair, [[HairColorDissonance though it can also represent black]]. Averted in the manga and Takahashi gives them all a shade of black.
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* KansaiRegionalAccent: Ukyō.
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* IndignantSlap:
** In the first episode, after learning about Ranma's curse, Akane is stewing in anger while bathing. She gets out of the bath, only to run headlong into girl-type Ranma coming in. In a fit of pique at Ranma seeing her naked, again, she slaps him. Nabiki even notes that they were both girls at the time, so it should have been okay. Akane rejects that notion while Ranma nurses a swollen cheek.
** During the story arc that introduced Ryoga, Ranma was rescuing Akane as she fell from a tree. Akane protested, demanding Ranma let her go. Ranma states that he (though now in girl form) isn't holding Akane because he likes her. Incensed, Akane slaps Ranma as they land. It does no real damage, but does cause Ranma to realize he'd crossed a line. Unfortunately, it's at this point that Akane's hair is sliced during their argument, meaning Ranma's JerkassRealization amounts to very little.
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* IdiosyncraticCulturalGesture:
** In the OVA two-parter where the usual cast are fighting the phoenix, Sasuke makes the embarrassed hand behind head gesture when Shampoo and Ukyo discover he manipulated them into making the phoenix growth pills Akane had been unable to make. Ukyo notes, "Face it, Sugar, he used us like a $2 pair of chopsticks."
** When Doctor Tofu's mother came to try and get him to accept an arranged marriage, she runs into Kasumi dropping off food for the Doctor. Tofu's mother holds up her pinky finger, a gesture signifying the RedStringOfFate, and asks Kasumi if they're a couple. Kasumi laughs at the notion, denying it.
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** The manga ends with [[spoiler:Ranma and Akane's wedding being interrupted by their multiple pursuants, as well as Ranma never being able to solve his form-shifting problem. It ends with a status quo.]]

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** The manga ends with [[spoiler:Ranma and Akane's wedding being interrupted by their multiple pursuants, as well as Ranma never being able to solve his form-shifting problem. It ends with a near status quo.quo, as it's shown that Ranma and Akane are willing to marry (as they were just mere moments away from doing so), and that now it's just a matter of time.]]
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* {{Gainaxing}}: Breasts, in the {{OAV}}, have independent mobility.
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* IronicEcho: PlayedForLaughs. In the episode "Curse of the Scroll", a scuffle between Ranma and Genma inadvertently causes a talisman come off from a scroll, releasing the entity drawn on it -- a badly-drawn female panda, which wishes for a night out with a "boyfriend" before going back into the scroll. Ranma eagerly volunteers Genma (in his panda form, natch) to Painting-panda, saying to Genma: "Don't you feel sorry for her, pop?" Painting-panda, however, rejects Genma at once and takes a liking to RANMA instead, prompting Genma to prevent Ranma from running away with one hand while [[TalkingWithSigns holding a sign with the words "Don't you feel sorry for her, boy?" with the other.]] Ranma ends up as Painting-panda's "boyfriend" for that night, if reluctantly.

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* IronicEcho: PlayedForLaughs. IronicEcho:
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In "The Wrath of Happosai", Ranma literally tosses Genma in panda form at Happosai due to Happosai being a PantyThief, resulting in Happosai mocking them with "fool" while tossing Genma upwards. Ranma promptly douses himself with cold water to lure Happosai forward, which ends with Genma falling back into the house at that very moment and landing on Happosai.
--->'''Ranma''': Fool.
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the episode "Curse of the Scroll", where a scuffle between Ranma and Genma inadvertently causes a talisman come off from a scroll, releasing the entity drawn on it -- a badly-drawn female panda, which wishes for a night out with a "boyfriend" before going back into the scroll. Ranma eagerly volunteers Genma (in his panda form, natch) to Painting-panda, saying to Genma: "Don't you feel sorry for her, pop?" Painting-panda, however, rejects Genma at once and takes a liking to RANMA instead, prompting Genma to prevent Ranma from running away with one hand while [[TalkingWithSigns holding a sign with the words "Don't you feel sorry for her, boy?" with the other.]] Ranma ends up as Painting-panda's "boyfriend" for that night, if reluctantly.

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