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1	This page covers tropes found in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''.
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10	* GenderBender: Making Ranma both MsFanservice ''and'' MrFanservice at the same time. Maybe the most famous example.
11	* GenderReveal:
12	** [[ThoseTwoGuys Hiroshi and Daisuke]], at least in the manga. Their response to discovering that cute redheaded girl they've been crushing on is, in fact, their ''male'' best friend? "We don't care, she's still hot."
13	** [[MasterOfDisguise Tsubasa]] also drops a Bridget on Ranma at the end of his introductory (and sole, in the manga) story.
14	** And [[DudeLooksLikeALady Konatsu]] drops it on Ukyō at the end of his.
15	* GenderVocabularySlip: Ranma routinely uses the masculine pronoun of "ore" to refer to himself, even in his female form.
16	** Several scenes involve him insisting people call him a man (or Mister) or getting upset at people calling him a girl even though he's in girl form.
17	* GenreShift: For the first few volumes the manga is a (comparatively) grounded romantic comedy series with arc-based plots and tangible CharacterDevelopment. After a while it transforms into a manic, sitcom-esque gag-fest with an episodic [[MonsterOfTheWeek monster/new character/new magical trinket of the week]] format and an [[StatusQuoIsGod unshakable status quo]], punctuated by occasional longer arcs.
18	* GhibliHills: Anywhere in Japan that isn't [[CityOfAdventure Nerima]] tends to be presented as such. At least until Ranma and co have finished trashing it over a [[MartialArtsAndCrafts Martial Arts tiddlywinks]] challenge or some such.
19	* GhostlyGoals:
20	** The anime has a cute ghost girl named Kogane who wants somebody to find her lost tanuki doll.
21	** The manga has an ugly old ghost matron who places a death curse on Happōsai that won't lift unless he swipes her old-fashioned bloomers.
22	* GirlsWithMoustaches: When Akane eats the super soba. It's full of male hormones, making facial hair growth a side effect. At least the whiskers drop off once the magic wears off.
23	* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Averted. The male fighters usually fight up close but are known to use projectiles (e.g Happo-Fire Burst). The female fighters also usually favor melee weapons.
24	* GlassesAndPonytailCoverup: Ranma Saotome has this as one of his favorite disguise methods and it almost always works due to everyone around him being [[SurroundedByIdiots clueless]] and [[SuperGullible gullible]], especially [[ButtMonkey Ryoga]].
25	* TheGlassesGottaGo: Mousse looks like a handsome Bishonen... until his terrible eyesight forces him to put on a hideous set of OpaqueNerdGlasses.
26	* TheGlomp:
27	** Ranma 1/2 is the TropeNamer: The first known appearance of the word "glomp" is a sound effect in the Viz media English translation of Ranma 1/2 Volume One, Part 12, published in 1993. The term was adopted wholesale by the highly prolific Ranma fanfic community and the rest is history.
28	** It's Shampoo's signature move towards Ranma, although Ryōga has also been glomped by Akane once (while she was brainwashed -- by Shampoo, natch).
29	** Akane has also glomped Ranma once, when he returned to the Tendō home after his fight with Herb.
30	** Ryōga was also glomped by Male form Ranma during the Koi Rod arc (and the shippers rejoiced).
31	** During the Do-chan (Battlesuit of Armor) arc, Ranma glomped Akane the ''best he freaking could without fainting on the spot''... They ''are'' a [[TsunderesInLove Takahashi Pairing]] after all.
32	** The most extreme glomping-series was the chapter wherein Shampoo used a magical "shiryaki mushroom spice" that gave anyone a hypnotic command to perform over and over. An awful amount of glomping was going on there. Ranma later used a suggestion incense to get Ryōga to hug anyone that said pig since Akari really liked pigs, with similar goofy results.
33	** Another chapter gave us the most dangerous glomps, when Ryoga is hypnotized into acting on his feelings for Akane. At first Akane is worried she will hurt Ryoga's feelings if she lets him, but after seeing him glomp a telephone pole in half, the only thing she's worried about hurting is her own spine.
34	%%* GoldfishScoopingGame
35	* GodlikeGamer: Parodied with the Gambling King. He thinks he's one, but in reality, the only reason he always wins is because he plays against children. Whenever he goes up against someone with even some degree of skill, he gets defeated quite easily. Fortunately for him, he goes up against TheProtagonist Ranma Saotome, who is equally as terrible a gamer so is matched quite evenly with him.
36	* GrandFinale: For the manga. Abandoned arcs aside, it definitely deserves a mention for this trope for taking up ''two manga volumes''.
37	* GrandTheftMe: The Vengeful Spirit Doll, Maomolin, the Oni...
38	* TheGreatestStyle: Ranma is a practitioner of the Saotome School of Anything-Goes Martial Arts, a style that gives him the skills and flexibility to not only learn but master many of the most difficult and dangerous fighting styles in the world. Genma, who taught Ranma much of what he knows, also used it to develop his own devastating techniques, the Umi-Sen Ken and Yama-Sen Ken. Of course, Genma also tends to parody this, coming up with such moves as the Crouch of the Wild Tiger (begging for forgiveness), the Howl of the Demon Dog (hurling insults) and the Saotome ultimate move (running away).
39	* HalfHumanHybrid: While not half-humans themselves, the people of the Musk Dynasty have inherited the blood of powerful animals and mythological creatures by throwing them in "The Spring of Drowned Girl" and mating with them. The Phoenix Kingdom, on the other hand, became {{Winged Humanoid}}s through centuries of consuming Jusenkyō-cursed water (bird curses, natch) for pretty much every aspect of their lives ([[MundaneUtility drinking, bathing, washing...]]) [[LegoGenetics throughout generations]].
40	* {{Hammerspace}}: ''Ranma ½'' is the TropeNamer for this one too, though in this case the term originated in the FFML online fanfiction community. Used by nearly everyone in the cast in the name of comedy. [[HyperspaceMallet Hammers]] are but a fraction of the items pulled out. Usually it's a shinai, bokken, spatula, chui, kettles, tables, miscellaneous so-called-weapons, heavy blunt objects in general, etc.
41	%%* HandBehindHead
42	* HanlonsRazor: This is the ultimate cause of Ranma and Ryoga’s rivalry as neither one is wholly in the right or wrong. While Ranma did knock Ryoga into the spring he had just just been knocked into a spring himself, so the only thing he had on his mind at the time was delivering a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on his father. So while Ranma does at least bear at least partial responsibility, ultimately he is guilty of negligence, not deliberate intent, and Ryoga partly shares the blame by following him to the cursed springs in the first place.
43	** Even before this Ranma is BrutalHonesty, but Ryoga took his blunt observations as Ranma teasing and bullying him despite him repeatedly walking Ryoga to and from his house. Even the bread feud was less Ranma stealing Ryoga’s food and more winning a free for all.
44	* HarmfulToMinors: The whole point of the Neko-Ken, a technique officially banned by all right-thinking martial artists due to the fact it revolves around traumatizing a young child physically and mentally to induce a BerserkMode. Not just TrainingFromHell, but also [[SanityHasAdvantages fundamentally flawed]] as well. Unfortunately, [[FairWeatherMentor Genma]] [[SinkOrSwimMentor Saotome]] is not a right-thinking martial artist.
45	* HavingABlast: {{Fanon}} is that the Happo Fire Burst is this (as well as a KiManipulation), due to the canonical ZigzaggingTrope which is never really resolved. {{Canon}} first presents it as a DangerousForbiddenTechnique, before revealing it to be a JokeItem -- using fireworks to feign a high-powered KiManipulation. Then it becomes Happōsai's signature move and actually quite effective ([[NonFatalExplosions for the genre]]). {{Fanon}} immediately proceeds to claim that the Happo Fire Burst is actually a KiManipulation which conjures the explosives [[AWizardDidIt from Ki energy]] (see the FanWank entry above). Of course, Happōsai is not the only one with a HyperspaceArsenal, proving that [[MagicAIsMagicA in the setting, it is possible]] [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower with enough skill]], so they really might just be weaponized fireworks. [[ImprobableWeaponUser It's a more likely weapon than many of the other cast members'...]].
46	* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Tatewaki Kunō applies this trope to himself regularly as part of his [[LovableSexManiac never-ending quest for a date]] from Akane Tendō and/or Ranma Saotome. He routinely attacks either girl, proclaiming that if he defeats them then they must allow him to go on a date with them, but whenever they fight back, he also states that if they defeat him, then he will allow them to go on a date with him. That they do not ''want'' a date with him is something his absurdly inflated ego prevents him from realising.
47	* HeavySleeper:
48	** Ranma, who can dodge attacks without waking up.
49	** Shampoo also knows of a technique that allows her to fight automatically while asleep.
50	** Akane once inhaled a magic incense that did the same thing.
51	* HeavierThanItLooks:
52	** 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.
53	** 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.
54	* {{Henohenomoheji}}: Ranma often wears one as mask.
55	* HereWeGoAgain:
56	** The end of the "Invincible" Phoenix Sword saga.
57	** The episode "Clash of the Delivery Girls! The Martial Arts Takeout Race" ends just as it begins: A man entering the house, declaring Ranma to be their son.
58	** The entire series ends with this as a form of AndTheAdventureContinues.
59	* HeroRivalBaddieTeamUp: One of the main {{Power Trio}}s is between Ranma and two of his main rivals Ryoga and Mousse. While Ryoga has cast aside most of his animosity and has forged a BashBrothers dynamic with Ranma, Mousse on the other hand still remains very bitter towards Ranma and will only ever work with him for personal gain and usually with ulterior motives.
60	* HeroicBSOD: Ranma, upon Akane's DisneyDeath at Jusendō. Not even a GetAHoldOfYourselfMan punch from Ryōga fazes him, nor is the prospect of being eaten alive by Saffron's egg.
61	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Though they haven't seen each other for a long time by the time the series starts, in the anime Genma and Sōun are usually shown hanging out together, playing shogi, go, or enjoying the countryside. In the manga they don't spend much time together on screen. However, in both canons, Sōun considers Genma to be morally reprehensible and gets mad at him for his various {{Jerkass}} deeds, although it never has any serious consequences. Sōun seems to be the only character who can [[IntelligibleUnintelligible understand Panda-Genma's speech]], without Genma having to resort to holding up signs.
62	* HeyYou: Ranma as "Boy".
63	* HighSchoolHustler: Nabiki, in fanon -- in canon, she's more of TheBarnum.
64	* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Ranma especially, but many secondary characters also have some form of trauma that's typically played for laughs (Ryōga unintentionally abandoned by his family at a young age, Mousse's constant beatdowns from Shampoo, Principal Kunō's treatment of his children). Topping it off: The [[{{Jerkass}} guy who's put Ranma through all of his]] HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood is the more loving of the two parents. His mother has Ranma's [[{{Seppuku}} suicide ritual]] if he proves to be anything but a Man Amongst Men so well-memorized that she performs it in her sleep.
65	* HitodamaLight:
66	** The ghost girl manifests ghost lights when she's trying to be scary and when she arrives/departs.
67	** Gosunkugi fakes the hitodama in the traditional way with candles tied to his head.
68	* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
69	** Herb was ultimately defeated by gathering all the [[KiManipulation energy he had released]] into one big, mountain-crushing bomb.
70	** Kunō's Watermelon Sword attack is defeated when Ranma places a watermelon on his head, causing him to knock himself out.
71	** The Hiryū Shōten Ha technique works by turning an opponent's own strength and rage against them, and is usually a one-hit-KO. The aforementioned mountain-crushing bomb, as well as the method that defeats Saffron, are variations on this technique and work on the same principle.
72	* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Albeit most of the fault lies with his dad, Ranma's problems with his UnwantedHarem also stem from his unwillingness to deal with said problems as if he weren't front-and-center for those.
73	* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: A significant part of the plot hinges on Ranma and Genma's inability and lack of resources to be able to return to Jusenkyo, as their dire financial situation is one of the reasons for Ranma's engagement and commitment to the Tendō household.
74	* HonestJohnsDealership:
75	** Nabiki, at every given opportunity.
76	** Shampoo's multiple purchases of magical items to entice Ranma, which often end up causing more problems. Said products often come from Jusenkyo itself.
77	* HonorBeforeReason: Ryōga has a strict honor code, and strict is the way he adheres to it. He'll never, ''never'', fight anyone who cannot fight back, or take advantage of an opponent's weakness.
78	** Averted everywhere else, including by Ryōga himself. Pretty much all the martial artists are obsessed with winning and strength, and don't consider any artificial force cheating to obtain it. This typically backfires on them. Examples include Ranma/Genma/Happosai/Akane fighting over super-strength granting noodle, Ryōga getting a mark that makes him invincible in a fight, etc.
79	* HulkSpeak: Shampoo, but only in the English and German dubs.
80	* HumanDoorstop: In the first movie, Lychee's elephant, Jasmine, stomps a hole in the bottom of the boat they're taking across the Sea of Japan. The gang plugs the hole with Happōsai, whose antics got them in the mess in the first place.
81	* HumanMail: Happōsai gets stuffed into a box to be mailed somewhere a couple of times in both Manga and Anime. It never sticks.
82	* HyperspaceMallet:
83	** In fanon this is Akane's signature weapon. However, while she occasionally does use some form of mallet in both the anime and manga, she usually uses any available blunt object, most frequently shinai, and various other characters have used them in either medium.
84	** Noteworthy for Sōun, who, when using his battle aura to turn Kaiju size, appears in full samurai armor.
85	* HypnoFool: Ranma and Akane are frequently the victims of mind-influencing magic, spells and poisons. Ranma is more frequently the victim in the anime (a hypnotic technique from Sasuke to make him go on a date with Kunō, being controlled by his evil side come to life courtesy of Happōsai), while Akane tends to be the victim of choice in the manga (Happōsai uses a magical incense that causes her to fall asleep until spring).
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89	* IconicOutfit: Ranma wears a variety of Chinese style clothes throughout the series, usually Mandarin collared shirts, black pants and slip-on shoes. During the winter, he opts for a Mao suit complete with red star cap. When required to wear special outfits – a gymnastics leotard, figure skating costume or cheerleading outfit – it's always in his signature style. It's so iconic to him, he even gets out of wearing the school uniform.
90	* IdentityAmnesia:
91	** After bonking himself hard on the head during the Watermelon Island story, Kunō goes from grabby-but-harmless buffoon to a crazed stalker whose skill actually allows him to terrorize Ranma.
92	** In one anime episode, Ranma, when he gets whacked upside the head hard enough, thinks he really is a girl. However, that is a case of LossOfIdentity rather then IdentityAmnesia -- she remembers being "Ranma" perfectly, her personality is just twisted into an entirely new format.
93	* IdiosyncraticCulturalGesture:
94	** 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."
95	** 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.
96	* IdiotCrows
97	* TheIdiotFromOsaka: Ukyō; although she isn't an idiot, is often depicted as a bit moneygrubbing, another stereotypical Osakan trait.
98	* IDoNotDrinkWine: The Seven Lucky Gods from [[TheMovie Nekonron, China]] only eat pickled vegetables.
99	* ImagineSpotting: Combines with MediumAwareness as characters are often able to look up into previous panels and make remarks such as:
100	-->'''Akane:''' Laying it on a bit thick, aren't you?\
101	"Good idea, we should have a Western ceremony!" or\
102	"Leave me OUT of your sick fantasies!"
103	* ImpactSilhouette: The surprising amount of ''detail'' on the character-shaped holes or impressions is [[RuleOfFunny part of the fun]].
104	* 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.
105	** Averted with Ranma since he inherits Genma's black hair (which he no longer has) rather than red from his mother, Nodoka. Ranma's red hair is justified due to the curse.
106	** 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]].
107	** The Kuno Household in the anime. Tatewaki Kuno and Principal Kuno have brown hair while Kodachi has black.
108	** 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.
109	** 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.
110	* ImportantHaircut: Akane, though not by choice (one of Ryōga's rogue bandannas cuts off her hair) she still uses it as a right of passage to move on from her childhood crush.
111	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Lots of minor characters, but the main crew isn't too far behind. Especially Ryōga, who uses a razor sharp, insanely heavy umbrella as a PrecisionGuidedBoomerang, and also attacks with razor sharp bandannas and can wield his own belt as a sword. This quality went away when Ryōga's training gave him more powerful techniques and turned him into a MightyGlacier as well as with the introduction of Mousse as the resident weapon expert. Mousse himself typically uses more traditional weapons such as swords, and chains, but has been known to get a bit odd, including smacking Ranma with a duck-shaped potty trainer.
112	* ImprovFu: Ranma Saotome has this trope reconstructed, featuring an as-serious-as-it-can-get Anything Goes Martial Arts dojo. While the fighting style has some of its own unique characteristics, Ranma's most distinctive ability is being able to adapt with remarkable skill, something that comes in handy when forced to engage in all sorts of rule-restricted MartialArtsAndCrafts.
113	* ImprovisedWeapon:
114	** Akane is very good at using any blunt object at hand to bash Ranma.
115	** Ranma, particularly in the manga, is very good at improvising weapons and has done so with a large variety of objects like pinwheels, rocks, sticks, clothesline poles, his hair, tennis rackets, paper fans, Ryōga, etc.
116	** Mousse has a special "White Swan" attack, which involves him hitting his opponent with ''a swan-shaped training potty''
117	* InconsistentColoring: The English manga covers for the 2-in-1 edition may depict Ranma in girl form with different colors depending on the volume, varying from the original red, stark black, pink, blue, purple, lilac, light brown and dark green.
118	* IndecisiveParody: While some people consider it an action comedy series where the humor extends into the depiction of martial arts tropes, other people see it as this. Especially since it pokes fun at otherwise serious scenarios (a duel against a nigh-invulnerable opponent whose fingerpoke can explode a person to bits[[note]]or so they believe[[/note]], a team-up against a two story-tall minotaur monster, a no-holds-barred battle with a murderous ki master, a duel against a deathly-serious opponent with layers upon layers of meaning about family honor,) with hilarious {{lampshade hanging}}s of techniques and deconstructions of the foes' motives (an "Ultimate Secret Technique" that consists of running away to think up something better, the monster is actually a {{Jerkass}} martial artist named "[[EmbarrassingFirstName Pantyhose Tarō]]" by Happōsai, Ranma stealing the deathly-serious opponent's clothes and leaving him in boxers, etc.) And that's the "serious" fights against "serious" enemies -- the comedy-oriented MartialArtsAndCrafts contests fully embrace the trope, showing eating contests or martial arts cooking battles with the same [[SeriousBusiness exaggerated drama]] of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' or ''Manga/SaintSeiya''.
119	* IndignantSlap:
120	** 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.
121	** 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.
122	* IndyPloy: Every single fight. Ranma is particularly adept at coming up with new variations of old techniques during the middle of heated battles.
123	* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Ranma does not seem to comprehend that being topless as a girl is not always appropriate. He honestly isn't much better at staying clothed as a guy, either.
124	* InstantCosplaySurprise:
125	** During the martial art skating match against the Golden Pair, Ranma-chan and Ryōga are swept away by the "Kolkhoz High Fashion Club" when the audience complains that Ranma's costume isn't sexy enough. They bring in portable booths as dressing rooms, but are quite fast to put Ryōga and Ranma into proper skating outfits.
126	** When Principal Kunō is teaching Akane how to swim, he promises a swimsuit which would allow her to "swim with the grace of a swan". She [[ImagineSpot imagines]] a beautiful ballerina outfit and goes to put it on. Next panel, it's actually a full-body suit making her look like an ugly duck, and she {{Megaton Punch}}es the Principal.
127	** A similar "dressing themselves without realizing what they're wearing" variant occurs to female Ranma. When trying to help a sickly young boy who won't take his medicine unless she takes him on a date, she accepts the clothes he hands to her just to play along. It's only after she's dressed that she realizes she's wearing a SailorFuku blouse and gym bloomers (no skirt). She [[MegatonPunch kicks him out the window]] and calls him a paedophile.
128	** The "martial art" variant happens later in the manga (Book #34). Happōsai is trying to force Ranma to wear a PlayboyBunny outfit, and after a SingleStrokeBattle, he manages to put a SailorFuku... on the ''male'' Ranma. Just as he's about to meet his mother to prove he was ''manly''.
129	** The trope could be said to be half-used during the fight against Ryū Kumon, where Ranma performs the Umi-Senken to remove Ryū's (and Sōun's) clothes in a blink. This one doesn't even need PowerPerversionPotential to be misapplied.
130	** A {{Filler}} scene in the very early anime implies that Nabiki keeps doing this to female Ranma when the latter's clothes are all in the laundry. Although the changes happen off-screen, Ranma keeps running in and out of frame wearing a [[WholesomeCrossdresser kimono]], a dominatrix outfit, and even a Las Vegas-style showgirl outfit, complete with tiara and feathers, all while screaming at Nabiki to stop it.
131	** Being knocked out and waking up in a wedding dress/wedding kimono/wedding tux happens to Akane and Ranma twice each (and in Ranma's case, the tux ''and'' the kimono).
132	* InstantExpert: Ranma was once attacked by Genma using the Umisen-ken. Genma "showed" it to him only once. Ranma mastered it in mere days well enough to use in battle.
133	* InstantFlightJustAddSpinning: In the anime, Kin'ni of the Jusenkyō Preservation Society is a powerful martial artist, practitioner of the "Cult of the Muscle Sword". He notably uses his large Chinese sword to fly by spinning it above head. He can even lift passengers with him, including one time a giant panda!
134	* InsultedAwake:
135	** 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.
136	** 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.]]
137	---> '''Akane:''' [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Ranma?]] [[PleaseWakeUp Ranma, wake up!]] You didn't… you didn't need to save me… ''RANMA YOU IDIOT!!''\
138	''[snap]''\
139	'''Ranma:''' [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Who are you calling an idiot?!]] I save you and this is the thanks I get?!
140	* 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.
141	* IntimateHealing: The one-shot character Densuke will only take his vitally-needed medication if it's given by a pretty nurse. Weird circumstances make this nurse out to be Ranma. And Densuke does his level best to get the medicine delivered by this method. He fails with Ranma, but the medicine is delivered by this method (by a male {{gonk}} of a doctor).
142	* 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.
143	* InvoluntaryDance: Linlin and Ranran play the ThemeTune which causes the opponent to dance uncontrollably, and while they dance Linlin and Ranran use the flamethrower to burn the opponent.
144	* IronicEcho:
145	** 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.
146	--->'''Ranma''': Fool.
147	** PlayedForLaughs in 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.
148	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy:
149	** Akane tries to pass off Kunō's obsession with her onto Ranma this way, though it doesn't actually work. Because he wants both of them.
150	** Aside from that, the only person in the entire series who comes close to playing this straight is Konatsu towards Ukyō.
151	** During the arc where the Tendō engagement gets switched from her to Nabiki, on hearing Nabiki tell Ranma "I love you" to manipulate him and think it is real, she decides to try giving up on Ranma because she couldn't express her feelings and Nabiki could.
152	** It's also shown by Ranma toward Ryōga in the Fishing Rod of Love arc.
153	** There's also an anime only episode where Mousse decides to return to China, and even actually tries to get Ranma and Shampoo closer to each other.
154	** Ryōga does this in the final chapter. Like the other suitors, he comes to fight for Akane, but when he sees them in their wedding outfits and looking happy (it goes to pot a moment later) he decides that Akane is happier with Ranma and leaves at peace with himself, able to devote himself to Akari.
155	* IWasJustPassingThrough: Is actually subverted with Ryōga, who comes to Ranma's aid during the moxibustion storyline. With Ryōga as Ranma's not-very-friendly (up until then) [[TheRival rival]], whose [[NoSenseOfDirection horrible directional sense]] would enable him to ''legitimately'' make the claim to having been "just passing through," you'd expect the playing of this card to be a no-brainer. But when Ranma out-and-out asks him if he's [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou saving him for himself]], Ryōga angrily denies it, says he hates bullies, and then breaks down crying with sadness to see a "great warrior" such as Ranma reduced to such a state. Later he helps Ranma regain his strength.
156	* {{Jerkass}}: Most of the cast. In fact, in RealLife, everyone (including ''Kasumi'') could be jailed for a number of crimes or not reporting them.
157	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ranma on a bad day, and Ryōga. Ranma can be arrogant, petty, manipulative, but will generally feel sorry about being an ass and is compassionate and helpful towards most people in trouble. Ryōga gives a harsh first impression, his anger can run away with him, and he is prone to idiotic behaviour, but behaves in a more polite and considerate manner in general, is just as helpful as Ranma when confronted with people in trouble, and his compassion is as overemotional as the rest of him. Typical example: when Ranma is rendered weak by Happōsai, and needs someone to fight seriously against him, Ryōga tries to help, but finds that he is unable to consciously strike someone so much weaker than himself, and runs away crying TenderTears... Also earlier in the same arc, it's Ryōga who saves Ranma from Tatewaki Kunō, Principal Kunō and Mousse, because he couldn't bear to see anyone taking advantage of his weakness. Granted, this aspect of his is only shown later on in the story.
158	** Akane, while generally a NiceGirl, is judgmental, self-righteous, sharp-tongued with Ranma (to the point she causes as many of their fights as he does), and is quick to lash out with physical violence when even slightly irritated. That said she's a compassionate and caring girl who can extend a great deal of trust even to people who have repeatedly wronged her in the past (more than does to Ranma, in fact). Like Ranma, she's also quick to leap in when she sees people needing help.
159	** Genma, Ranma's mother, even Mousse. Pretty much anybody who isn't a through and through jerk, has a moment to shine.
160	* JewelersEyeLoupe: In the manga, Nabiki wears an eye loupe to appraise the "engagement ring" Ranma's mother tasked Ranma to give to his fiancée. Nabiki deems it of no monetary value, which doesn't change its symbolic value. [[spoiler:Turns out, it's not an engagement ring at all, although for once it isn't because Nabiki was deceptive about it.]]
161	* JustEatGilligan: That fateful trip to the Jusenkyō Springs is a turning point for Ranma and Gemna. It probably would've been just another bump in the road had they ''taken the time to look'' for a "Spring of Drowned Man" right after.
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164	[[folder:K to L]]
165	* KamehameHadoken:
166	** The Shi-Shi Hōkōdan and Moko Takabisha KiManipulation. This is more notable in the anime, where they're shown as sustained energy beams in the second NonSerialMovie (normally, they're [[Franchise/StreetFighter Hadoken-style]] fireballs).
167	** Herb's KiManipulation is also like this once he gets out of ModeLock.
168	** The anime has Natsume and Kurumi's "Ryūka Ringu", or "Ring of Dragon Fire", which is one part this to one part SpectacularSpinning.
169	** Though based on magic instead of ki, Saffron has a variety of fiery projectiles, all the way up to a super-blast of flame the name of which roughly translates as "Empire Instant Annihilation Blast".
170	* KarmaHoudini:
171	** Nabiki Tendō has ''never'' received any sort of comeuppance for her callous actions in the entire series. Creator/RumikoTakahashi likes this character and considers her [[ComedicSociopathy sociopathic actions within the family dynamic to be the reason she's funny]].
172	** 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.
173	* {{Kawaiiko}}: Azusa Shiratori
174	* KeepingSecretsSucks
175	* KendoTeamCaptain: Tatewaki Kunō.
176	* KiManipulation
177	* 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.
178	* KidSamurai: Tatewaki Kunō.
179	* KillItWithFire: Saffron's attacks.
180	* KillItWithWater:
181	** Quite a number of martial artists are transformed into (relatively) harmless animals when hit with water. Once, an entire mountain was rigged so as to eliminate all enemies this way.
182	** In the first movie, Ranma realizes how to get past the {{Big Bad}}s perfect defense. He kicks up water in the flooding room, and punches it blazingly fast at his opponent. As he blocks punches by grabbing them with his chopsticks, this technique obviously does not work on the water punches.
183	* KissOfDeath: The Chinese Amazon kiss of death delivered by Shampoo. It's a tribal custom when defeated by an outsider woman to kiss them, which signifies a promise to hunt the recipient down to the ends of the earth and kill them. And they mean "to the ends of the earth" literally: Shampoo chased Ranma through all of China and to Tokyo to kill his female form...
184	* KnifeThrowingAct: Mousse disguises himself as a circus knife-thrower when he comes back (for good) to hunt down Ranma. And he does pin the latter down to the target board, but Ranma escapes the deliberate stabbing.
185	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The "Saotome Secret Technique" relies on "motion, distance, and contemplation". In other words, run like your life depends on it then come back later. While introduced mostly as a joke early on, this is actually Ranma's most useful skill, as most of his fights are won less through sheer skill (Having just learned how to fight with teacups and teaspoons a few days ago), and more through outsmarting his opponents.
186	* KnuckleCracking:
187	** Ranma likes to crack his knuckles, especially by just flexing his fingers, all the time when getting ready to start fighting seriously.
188	** Ryōga also makes a show of crushing some walnuts in his fingers to emphasize his attitude towards Ranma in his second appearance.
189	* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: Present early in the series, with many convenient bodies/sources of cold water, and Ranma frequently being forced into otherwise benign bodies of water due to his tendency to jump before he looked (Tendō koi pond, anyone?).
190	** Made even funnier, in instances when Ranma has to stay in his female form, (such as when he is traveling with his mother, who will force him to commit seppuku if she finds out that "Ran-chan" is actually her son). Of course, now ''hot'' water is absolutely everywhere, and not a drop of cold water can be found.
191	* KryptoniteProofSuit: Waterproof soap.
192	* LamarckWasRight: The Musk Dynasty. To some extent, the Phoenix Kingdom. SuperpowerfulGenetics play a large role in these cultures' development.
193	* LargeHam: Kuno is the primary offender.
194	--> '''Kuno:''' "I MUST PREPARE THE INK QUICKLY LEST I FORGET!"
195	** Genma is also a source of ham.
196	--> '''Genma:''' FOOLISH BOY! WERE YOU NOT PREPARED TO SACRIFICE YOUR LIFE TO THE ARTS?!
197	* LarynxDissonance:
198	** In the European Spanish dub, the same actress dubs female ''and'' male Ranma. Spot-on performance for the former, while the latter sounds [[CrossDressingVoices ten years old]].
199	** Sarah Strange played male Ranma in the first few seasons before Richard Cox took over the role.
200	%%* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Or Bokken Guided Amnesia as it were...
201	%%* LastConfessionWins
202	* LeftHanging:
203	** The anime series ends nowhere near the manga's climax, whose own open ending may be just as bad depending on your perspective -- though by that point both the manga and the anime had evolved into an ensemble comedy and any semblance of an overall plot arc had long-since been abandoned. Takahashi likely took one look at the LoveDodecahedron and simply gave up resolving it. It's worth a mention, however, that [[spoiler: Ranma and Akane made a lot of progress in their relationship, as compared to the earlier volumes. In the later volumes, they implictly talk about "their relationship" and ocasionally dare to each other to acknowledge his/her feelings first. In a Valentine's Day episode, Ranma suggests Akane buying him chocolates instead of ''making'' them and Akane finally gives him a brownie. And Ranma is even able to confess his love to her in the final volume.]]
204	** 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, 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.]]
205	* LeftStuckAfterAttack: After Saotome Ranma in girl form routinely dodges Tendō Akane's attacks, Akane throws a fierce jab. Ranma leaps over the blow, which continues into the dojo wall. Akane remains motionless with surprise rather than being stuck. Ranma simply taps Akane's head as an "I win" gesture. It is then that Akane realizes that Saotome Ranma is a high-level martial artist.
206	* LeotardOfPower: Female Ranma and Kodachi wear tight, bottom (and bosom)-hugging leotards in Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics tournament. Akane also wore one during training, but didn't get to compete.
207	* LethalChef: Akane. Her cooking is so bad that anything living would get food poisoning (averted by Kurumi). Happōsai, who's probably the most inhuman character in the series, couldn't even stomach eating her cookies and complained that he should've been warned they weren't meant for human consumption. This gets ridiculously {{flanderized}} in FanFic, even after she begins to improve in the last third of the manga and makes an acceptable curry once (the funny part about this is that the men of the house only find this out after she leaves to deal with a "monster" in the woods at the request of some villagers, and they think she ran away from home out of rejection).
208	** Hinako Ninomiya is a lesser-known example. She only tries to cook once (in an attempt to impress Soun's daughters by volunteering to make breakfast), only to end up burning the food.
209	-->'''Ranma''': I guess Akane had been cooking again?
210	-->'''Akane''': EXCUSE ME?!
211	* TheLightfooted: Ranma is light enough on his feet to walk across the edge of a katana blade. He also can run along the narrow edge of a fence.
212	* LightGirlDarkBoy: Ranma normally has black hair and darker skin than "Ranko", who has red hair in the anime, and has had a variety of different hair colors, usually not black, in the colored covers of the manga.
213	* LightIsNotGood: Asuka Saginomiya, a.k.a. "Asuka the White Lily," a rival of Kodachi Kuno's from childhood. Blonde, dresses in white, heavily associated with lilies, she's just as haughty and twisted as Kodachi is, if not more so.
214	* LighterAndSofter:
215	** To some extent in the anime. ''Ranma ½'' may be a comedy, but it's an ''action''/drama/comedy, and the original manga is pretty dark sometimes (more so if considered from a first-person point of view). As [[http://ranmarelated.blogspot.com/2008/01/darkness-of-ranma-matter-of-perspective.html this blog]] points out, there are all sorts of things -- PowerAtAPrice is alive and well (most of the {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}s or SupernaturalMartialArts come at the cost of SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining, include {{Dangerous Forbidden Technique}}s, inflict PowerIncontinence (including [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength more physical strength than you can safely handle]]), requires TrainingFromHell, is HarmfulToMinors, or any combination of the above), for starters. There have been multiple near-deaths and attempted murders, there are spells and items that can take away your [[ForcedTransformation body]], [[MoreThanMindControl mind]], even your [[LossOfIdentity personality]], your dreams can be invaded... The anime, though, turns down many of these events and even removes a few altogether (if only because some of the darkest stories came out after the anime was cancelled). With its canonical AlternateCharacterInterpretation, the characters seem less of a DysfunctionJunction, which helps.
216	** Example of the LighterAndSofter: in a {{filler}} story, a mysterious weirdo has cursed paintings that he says will kill people if their seals are removed, citing how his grandfather and father, who painted two of them, died upon completion. In the anime, it's changed so that he specifies his ancestors were in their late '90s when they finished, implying he's just full of hot air and trying to drum up interest by overblowing things. Oddly, though, it's the anime that has the spider-demon and oni's seals be removed, causing them to emerge as {{kaiju}}, whereas in the manga only the scribble-panda comes out. Of course, Sōun, Genma and Happōsai promptly grow into giants themselves and hold them off all night without causing any damage.
217	* LimitedWardrobe: Varies by medium and character, see the character pages for details. The anime plays it generally straight with male characters, less so with female. In the manga it varies by character: the less stereotyped and more central a character the more varied their wardrobe, and wardrobe variations are carefully calculated for comedic effect. Again, the most likely aversions are female characters because Takahashi is a bit of a fashionista in real life and made an effort to portray the central cast girls (Akane Tendo in particular) wearing contemporary fashions.
218	* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: one sells Kuno the phoenix egg.
219	* LoopholeAbuse: In the Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics, also Ranma winning the combination of downhill race and running battle, and more. See Loophole Abuse for details.
220	* LordErrorProne: Tatewaki Kunō.
221	* LostInTranslation: See PunnyName below. All they had to do was adjust the pronounciation of the dub (or the spelling of the subtitles) a bit...
222	* LoudspeakerTruck: 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.
223	* LovableSexManiac: Happōsai, not so much lovable, but is a sex maniac. Kunō, on the other hand, is that and a [[WouldntHitAGirl masochist]].
224	* LoveAtFirstPunch: just about everyone who falls for Ranma or Akane seems to do so after being pounded on by them.
225	* LoveDodecahedron: [[TropeNamer The term was coined just to describe Ranma's relationships]]
226	* LoveInterestVsLustInterest:
227	** 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.
228	** 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.
229	** 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.
230	* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Pick a suitor.
231	* LoveMakesYouDumb: Dr. Tofū around Kasumi. "And he was such a good doctor".
232	* LovePotion: Not actual potions as such, but otherwise a common feature. Between the anime and manga, we've seen, among other things, a literal UmbrellaOfTogetherness and RedStringOfFate, mushrooms that become a love potion when stewed, bracelet "jewels" that are taken as love potion pills, "compatibility testing" sakura-mochi, a box of aphrodisiac-soaked band-aids, and a "heart fishing pole". Thanks to his UnwantedHarem, and the general lack of scruples on the parts of... well... ''everyone''... Ranma Saotome tends to be the one who gets whammied with these the most.
233	** However, a perfect love potion that causes no complications and side effects doesn't seem to exist.
234	--> '''Cologne:''' If only there was such a convenient thing...
235	--> '''Shampoo:''' Shampoo would have used it on Ranma a long time ago.
236	* LoverTugOfWar

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