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''The Titans and the Lost Boy'' begins with H.I.V.E. taking an interest in the legends of Jusenkyo and the Titans following them out to the Bayankala Mountain Range. By sheer coincidence, the Titans cross paths with Ryouga, who demonstrates his abilities by blowing up Cinderblock and helping the team take care of H.I.V.E. After a stopover in the Amazon village to repair the T-ship, the Titans return home and Ryouga goes back to his wandering...

From there the story kicks into high gear when Blood brainwashes Ryouga and uses his knowledge to target members of the Nerima Wrecking Crew for further "recruitment"\x9D, drawing the main cast of Ranma 1/2 into the action as they either unwillingly join H.I.V.E. Academy or scramble desperately to find their kidnapped friends and rivals. Meanwhile the Titans are faced with the unenviable position of being the only thing standing between Jump City and an army of brainwashed martial artists.

 

 

* '''Red XX?:''' Focuses on the Titans and their newest members dealing with the theft of the Red X suit. Also lays the groundwork for the other arcs via occasional focus on other groups.

* '''This Ain't A Scene:''' Cologne matches wits with Lex Luthor, but Jinx and Happosai are in town as well...

* '''Titan Rising:''' Ryouga discovers a way to resurrect Terra, but her control issues are worse than ever and she's going to need a mentor. Meanwhile, Jinx and Happosai continue their training trip across DC America, setting their sights on Gotham City as the ideal place to test Jinx's skills.

* '''Wedding Party:''' The Titans attempt to prevent Starfire from being married off while Blackfire makes a bid for the throne, Ryouga and Terra go camping, and Speedy learns the consequences of disrespecting others.

 

 

 

 

* [[20% More Awesome]]: "Yeah, dude, that was like, seventy percent as awesome as Terra's 'Stonami'! … Maybe sixty five percent."

* [[Aliens Are Bastards]]: The Psions.

* [[Angst Nuke]]: Ryouga's perfect shishi houkodan

** Jinx becomes Happosai's apprentice.

* [[The Atoner]]: Terra, Ryouga

* [[Brainwashed]]: Ryouga, Mousse, Tatewaki, Nabiki, and Kasumi (but not Happosai, who was just bribed).

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Ryouga after the Headmaster attempts to increase his aggressiveness.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Pretty much every member of the Nerima Wrecking Crew with a "special move" does this. Even Robin and Starfire occasionally do it.

** Later parodied by Cyborg.

* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: An indirect example. Early on in ''TALB'', Cologne enlists Starfire's help to teach Ryouga the [[Finishing Move|Hiryu Shoten Ha]] but doesn't bother to teach him the basic steps, saying that Ryouga already knows how it's done [[Continuity Nod|because he helped Ranma develop the same skill]] earlier in the main series. Sure enough, {{spoiler|Starfire winds up using the techniques she learned by training with Ryouga to perform her own Hiryu Shoten Ha before the series is over.}}

* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: The source of Brushogun's massive power-up. As opposed to his canon incarnation, Brush realizes at one point that his powers are at their most potent when he copies the work of another artist because people recognize and believe in those copies, giving them much greater power than any of Brushogun's own original creations, which is also a comment about the nature of fanfiction, with common reader dislike for any original characters.

* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]: Billy Numerous vs Shampoo. [[Curb Stomp Battle|No contest]].

* [[Crack Pairing]]: Jinx/Ryouga

* [[Crossover Ship]]: Jinx/Ryouga, Raven/Ryouga, Starfire/Ryouga

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Mainly Ranma versus Brushogun; and Nabiki versus the Titans and Brother Blood; but there are plenty of more general examples, including:

* [[Hope Spot]]: Mostly for the relationships in Dark Titans. Every time it looks like one girl has an advantage over the others in any given [[Love Dodecahedron]], something happens to either smack them down or elevate another girl to similar status. Even Robin/Starfire isn't totally safe from this.

* [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog]]:

'''Kasumi''': "Oh my! Look at the time, I have to go do the shopping." }}

* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]: Jusenkyo curses fall under this, so Ranma, Ryouga, Mousse, and Shampoo all count. Gizmo and Mammoth also manage to acquire Jusenkyo curses early on in the story.

* [[The Jinx]]: Jinx

* [[Lady of Black Magic]]: Raven

* [[Laughing Mad]]: Jinx near the end of ''The Titans and the Lost Boy''.

* [[Lethal Chef]]: Starfire and Akane

** Also Raven, although partially justified in this case due to trying to use ingredients labelled in Chinese.

* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: Starfire and Ryouga, but they have considered a relationship at times, as they get along well, and were initially presented as almost exactly equal in strength.

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Nabiki takes to her new supervillain status like a duck to water, even {{spoiler|planning and executing a rebellion of H.I.V.E.'s students against Brother Blood right under his nose}} while manipulating the Titans and what's left of the NWC into helping her. She even decides to stay a villain and becomes the tactical head of the H.I.V.E. Five when the rest of the NWC goes back to Japan or joins up with super hero teams.

* [[Meaningful Echo]]: During Ryouga's hiryu shoten ha training, Starfire says "I am sorry friend Ryouga, but I must do my utmost to thrash you soundly." Later, when Ryouga has been {{spoiler|brainwashed into fighting the Teen Titans,}} Starfire says the same line just before she {{spoiler|takes him on alone}}.

** Beast Boy comments that he's fit as a fiddle when Terra wants to head down to the gym to watch Ryouga train so that he can accompany her, to which Kasumi replies "If you are implying that you are as healthy as a delicately crafted piece of wood being held together by so much string and glue . . . then yes, I suppose you are." Then, after {{spoiler|Terra nearly kills Beast Boy}}, upon awakening, Beast Boy uses the same line.

* [[Monumental Damage]]: In the "Big Trouble in Little Tokyo" arc, {{spoiler|Evangelion Unit 1}} destroys the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.

* [[Most Common Superpower]]: Raven and Starfire. Notably, not Jinx.

* [[No Sense of Direction]]: Ryouga. Fortunately, his Hive communication device came with a GPS.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Kasumi. She appears to be [[The Team Normal]], although she is the [[Supreme Chef]] and is studying medicine. Secretly however, she {{spoiler|is a better hacker than Gizmo and is the one who stole the Red X suit.}}

* [[Opposites Attract]]: Ryoga is increasingly paired off with Jinx, who, prior to the events of ''Titans and the Lost Boy'' and ''Dark Titans'', was a super-villain, and is still very antagonistic.

* [[Otaku]]: Gizmo displays a few signs of this.

* [[Pair the Spares]]: Ryu and Natsume, or Ryu and Ukyo. Either of which makes sense, although the latter leaves Konatsu alone.

* [[The Paragon]]: Goku. Generally Cyborg, and handled so well that one can't help but wonder if [[DC Comics]] is now making him into a [[Breakout Character]] because of it.

* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Terra after being de-petrified.

* [[Pettanko]]: Jinx and Terra

** 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 levels displayed in the animated series source materials. Ryouga and Starfire are represented as close in strength as a concious choice by the author, as, although her greatest blatant feat of strength was far beneath manga Ryouga's, she was sometimes able to challenge Cyborg. Cyborg, whose top showing in the animated series include tearing up an office building and using it as a bludgeon, which matches Lime keeping open a closing ravine, is presented as ten times stronger than either of them. It would be about 3 times stronger compared with manga Ryouga, but that may be irrelevant.

** 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 although the speed and skill feats for the Ranma crew are still superior to the Titan's cast, unlike the manga's supersonic speed and unearthly skill, it is not by an insurmountable level. Again, this was done as a balance issue, as the manga has showings far in excess of those shown in the anime, although comics Cyborg and Starfire were actually usually presented as far less physically extreme than their (much more compelling) animated series counterparts.

* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]:

'''Starfire:''' "Tameran ... is not... '''DEAD!''''' }}

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: '' {{spoiler|Kasumi.}}'' And it was [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|FREAKING AWESOME.]]

* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: Apparently a victim of a larger vocabulary than the author can spell; at one point Ranma is shocked when an opponent with a hole blown through them fails to have a "grizzly" wound; another time the reason the Joketsuzoku fail to be impressed with money because they're "aesthetic" warriors.

* [[Running Gag]]: 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 [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]-ness. {{spoiler|So when Blood foils Nabiki's [[Batman Gambit]] [[Hostage Situation|by putting an energy blade to Kasumi's neck]] [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|and telling Nabiki she's not ruthless enough to be a]] ''[[Complete Monster|real]]'' [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|supervillain like himself]], it comes ''completely'' out of left field for both the readers and the characters.}}

* [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]: H.A.E.Y.P. Academy has one.

* [[Ship Sinking]]: Ryouga finally came clean to Akane about being P-chan before the story began and got a chewing out to the tune of "I never want to see you again!"\x9D for his courage. While Akane later felt bad about her reaction and apologized, by that time Ryouga had moved on and started to form his own [[Love Dodecahedron]].

** Actually, Ryouga gave him an accurate assessment of Ranma's skills. They didn't recruit Ranma because of his presence potentially leading to infighting between the other recruits. That said, Ryouga not mentioning Akane on the list of Nerima's fighters does fall under this trope.

* [[Split Personality]]: Kasumi shows signs of this at the end of the "Red XX" arc.

* [[Stupidity-Inducing Attack]]: Brother Blood briefly considers doing the "drooling vegetable" variation to Ryouga, but ultimately passes on that in favor of making him a slave.

* [[Superpower Meltdown]]: Ryouga's uncontrolled perfect shishi houkodan near the end of ''Titans and the Lost Boy''.

* [[The Tape Knew You Would Say That]]: Jinx's message to Ryouga on the cusp of Happi's test.

* [[Team Mom]]: Kasumi

* [[Unequal Pairing]]: Ryoga and Raven ever getting intimate would result in him [[Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex|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.

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

 

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