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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.

* '''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.

In addition to the above, ''The Titans And The Lost Boy'' is now being rewritten in the form of a webcomic with Lathis doing the story and Lavender-Ice covering artwork. The first few strips can be found [http://ttlb.lavender-ice.com/ here].

* [[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

* [[Apocalypse Maiden]]: Raven, just like in ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''.

** 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.

* [[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:

** 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.

* [[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]]:

{{quote|'''Starfire:''' "I am sorry friend Ryouga, but I must do my utmost to thrash you soundly."

'''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.}}

* [[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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