Desperately Seeking Ranma: Difference between revisions

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** They also manage to train up Nabiki, Aiko, Tamiko, Fumiko and Misaki to the point that they can all use ki attacks.

* [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]: The time machine's "dinosaur-killer" asteroid weapon. Averted in that it was the machine's ''second'' choice for bringing about [[The End of the World as We Know It]].

* [[Laugh Themselves Sick]]: "Yori" literally rolls on the floor laughing after hearing the details of Ryoga's encounter with Ms. Aoyama.

* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: This moment from Chapter 22:

{{quote|[Nabiki] shook her head slowly, still staring at them. "When did I fall into some sort of manga or anime series?"

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* [[Partial Transformation]]: The "mermaid" and "flyer" forms acquired with the so-called "illusion" spell.

* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Ranma. Full stop. During the Halleckton event, about a third of the way through the extant material, he makes a crater big enough to become a ''lake'' -- with a single attack. Kasumi is not far behind him. ''And they keep getting more powerful through the course of the story.''

* [[Phlebotinum Analogy]]: Ranma's likening of ki to a muscle, which he notes is inaccurate for all but the specific behavior he's explaining.

* [[Phoney Call]]: When she and Shampoo realize a bank robbery is about to take place, Akane calls acquaintance Lt. Richard Harrison of the LAPD on her cell phone and using innocent-sounding language informs him of what's happening.

* [[Pillar of Light]]: Those residents of Tokyo who can remember what happened during "The Great Twitch" usually recall a pillar of light that appeared to be in the Minato area.

* [[Police Are Useless]]: Almost completely averted. The main characters end up developing contacts in several different police forces or similar organizations, including a Japanese intelligence agency, the Los Angeles PD, the FBI, and the Canadian Mounties. Although initially out of their depth when faced with paranormal crimes and criminals, they rapidly adapt. While they may defer to the heroes on issues of magic and fighting monsters, they all prove to be good and useful allies.

* [[Precursors]]: It's somewhat hard to define true Precursors in this setting given all the interdimensional travel between universes with different time flows, not to mention the shenanigans the time machine got up to, but the long-gone civilizations engaged in the war which produced the time machine are close enough as to make no difference, and even ''they'' had Precursors of their own, ~~who~~ were responsible for the creation of the Silence Glaive.

* [[Precursors]]: It's somewhat hard to define true Precursors in this setting given all the interdimensional travel between universes with different time flows, not to mention the shenanigans the time machine got up to, but the long-gone civilizations engaged in the war which produced the time machine are close enough as to make no difference, and even ''they'' had Precursors of their own, one set of which were responsible for the creation of the Silence Glaive.

** The mysterious benefactors of what became the Kw'lyn Corporation, who appear to have been descended from forces sent into the past with the time machine, and who gave them a [[Dyson Sphere]] as reparations for their side of the ancient war creating the device in the first place, basically played this role for a very brief time.

* [[Punctuation Shaker]]: Most of the alien languages we see seem to indulge in this.

* [[Punctuation Shaker]]: Most of the alien languages we see seem to indulge in this, at least a little.

* [[The Quiet One]]/[[The Silent Bob]]: Misaki, mainly because most of the time she has food in her mouth. Her first few "lines" are inarticulate grunts.

* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: Humorously invoked [[In-Universe]] as a reason why making an action film just by filming the streets of Minato for a week wouldn't work -- "Not realistic enough."

* [[Recurring Extra]]: Daniel Goodner, the teen in L.A. who's convinced ''someone'' is making an absolutely ''amazing'' film but is bungling the promotion. He eventually graduates to a full named character by chapter 95 or so. (And ''finally'' learns he's wrong.)

* [[Recurring Extra]]: Daniel Goodner, the teen in L.A. who's convinced ''someone'' is making an absolutely ''amazing'' film but is bungling the promotion. Initially a nameless extra, he eventually graduates to a full named character by chapter 95 or so. (And ''finally'' learns he's wrong.)

* [[Recursive Precursors]]: Several instances are known or implied across the various universes:

** The civilization that produced the Silence Glaive.

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* [[Reverse Polarity]]: How Nabiki pulls off a lot of Ms. Aoyama's creepiness/alien-ness -- the disguise/illusion includes something that inverts her chi in such a way that it makes her feel completely unnatural even to those that aren't chi adepts.

* [[Roof Hopping]]: Nabiki gets extensive (and extreme) training in roof-hopping from Ranma and Kasumi. The other girls are already adept at it.

* [[Running Gag]]: Referring to Ranma/Yori's high-powered attacks as "making duck ponds", after the first such one seen in the story -- it left behind a glass-lined crater in a park, and the authorities just filled it with water and put benches around it as soon as it had cooled down.

* [[Running Gag]]: Referring to Ranma/Yori's high-powered attacks as "making duck ponds", after the first such one seen in the story -- it left behind a glass-lined crater in a park, and the authorities (who had already been planning to make a new pond there) just filled it with water and put benches around it as soon as it had cooled down.

** "Wait 'til you reach stage four," in regards to training.

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Akane -- who is perfectly fine now, thank you -- clearly gives this impression to the leader of a band of bank robbers:

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"Ms Aoyama doesn't sleep, she waits. In the dark. When you turn out the light, she's there," Aiko added, a small smile on her face. Yrenti and Savrk exchanged a look. Inwardly, 'Azumi' was giggling insanely.

"I heard that a ghost tried to scare Ms Aoyama to death," Rei put in, looking like she was trying not to laugh. "She just raised an eyebrow at it and no one has seen it since."}}

* [[Single-Issue Psychology]]: Before they discover an organic cause for them, Ranma, Kasumi and Nabiki speculate that Akane's anger issues (and her failure to control them despite much therapy) stem from her being a repressed lesbian or bisexual, and having a consciously-denied crush on her best friend Sayuri. To be fair, the evidence at hand was strongly suggestive that this was the case.

* [[Single-Issue Psychology]]: Before they discover an organic cause for them, Ranma, Kasumi and Nabiki speculate that Akane's anger issues (and her failure to control them despite much therapy) stem from her being a repressed lesbian or bisexual, and having a consciously-denied crush on her best friend Sayuri. To be fair, the evidence at hand was strongly suggestive that this was the case. Ultimately averted as they are careful to note both between themselves and to all involved parties that Akane's problems are likely not caused by any one cause, although they admit that her toxoplasmosis was responsible for a ''lot'' of it.

* [[Sir Swearsalot]]: Almost all of the Sailor Senshi, including Ami of all people (but not Hotaru). {{spoiler|This is one of the first (subtle) clues that something's very wrong with them.}}

* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Chiyoko is the magical equivalent. Hotaru, even more so.