Desperately Seeking Ranma: Difference between revisions

** About the time the portal-bomb arc kicks into gear, Ranma notes that his "Yori" persona was originally intended simply as a disguise for taking care of the occasional high-powered task he couldn't do either as himself or one of his non-martial identities; but being Yori has become a large part of his life -- he's come to enjoy being her, and wouldn't give it up even if told he had to.

* [[Bee People]]: Averted by the Kennsh, who while they resemble two-meter beetles appear to have a social and cultural structure not unlike humanity's. Their biology, however, never gets mentioned.

* [[The Berserker]]: Akane, before "Chou" and "Yori" cure her toxoplasmosis and fix the damage it caused.

* [[Big Eater]]: Misaki. She has her [[Hammerspace]] storage filled with food and drink.

** Even more so, the demons summoned by the "portal bombs".

{{quote|"They're practically unkillable. The military in London apparently shot one point blank with a 40mm grenade launcher half a dozen times and only pissed it off. Automatic gunfire it barely noticed."}}

* [[The Omniscient]]: Part of what makes Ms. Aoyama incredibly scary, especially to government types. She seems to know ''everything'' -- especially things it should be impossible for her to know.

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Something like this seems to be in play when Kodachi actually appears to be regretful that Akane and Shampoo are moving to the United States.

* [[Saving the World]]: Standard duty of both the Sailor Senshi and the group that's formed around Chou and Yori. Taken [[Up to Eleven]] when the time machine is defeated, which literally saves ''the entire universe''.

* [[Scare'Em Straight]]: Ms. Aoyama has this effect on some people just by talking to them -- and when she ''intends'' to intimidate... well, just ask Akane and Ryoga.

** An operation orchestrated to frighten Gosunkugi out of further boneheaded attempts at magic caps chapter 98. Naturally it involves Ms. Aoyama.

** "Yori" does this to Anthony Murray in the wake of Halleckton.

** Nabiki's friend Kimiko, as of chapter 95, appears to know or suspect that Nabiki is Azumi Ito.

** After Ami shifts allegiance to the Sisterhood (and after she brings home a synthetic diamond statue and a moon rock), her mother clearly begins to suspect that she's a magical girl, although she doesn't know which one.

{{quote|The youngest Sano looked at Nabiki with a small smile of her own. "She writes magical girl fan fiction, you know," she confided, making Hana go bright red and lunge for her. Evading the older sister Kimiko laughed. "Some of it is almost good. You should see the thing she wrote about that Yori girl the other week. It was hysterical..." Hana managed to grab her and push her to the carpet, her hand over her sister's mouth, looking horribly embarrassed.

"''Shut up!''" she hissed into her sister's ear. Kimiko didn't stop grinning.

* [[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.

* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: During [[The Reveal]] of all their secrets to Ami, Rei and Hotaru, Kasumi describes herself as "Ranmasexual".

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

* [[Sock Puppet]]: When Nabiki catches up to them, she learns that Ranma and Kasumi both have a large number of alternate identities (which all have unique and distinctive appearances thanks to the disguise spell). These they use for a wide variety of purposes -- some broad, some amusingly specific.

* [[Split Personality]]: What Luna and Artemis really are, for Usagi and Minako respectively.

* [[The Spook]]: Ms. Aoyama.

* [[Standard Sci-Fi Fleet]]: All the craft seen at the port at K'nn Four.

* [[Staring Down Cthulhu]]: Several of the people Ms. Aoyama has dealt with afterwards are convinced she is the kind of creature that [[Eldritch Abomination]]s fear and hide from.

* [[Super Strength]]: While the other girls have it from the start, Nabiki is surprised to find that she's ''accidentally'' acquired the ability to lift nearly half a ton. And she gets stronger once she starts proper training.

* [[Surveillance Drone]]: While on vacation, Nabiki buys a half-dozen or so ultratech cameras which fly, go invisible, and can be remote-controlled by Jun, who relays what they see to picture-in-picture windows overlaid on Nabiki's visual field. (A little later, they splurge and buy the other girls a couple of cameras each.) And while she uses them for taking photos and video while on vacation, once she gets home...

* [[Talkative Loon]]: Setsuna shows signs of this right before they stun her and take her to a professional to treat the damage caused by the time machine.

* [[Technically a Smile]]: Ms. Aoyama. Descriptions of her smile always indicate that it is anything but pleasant and reassuring; at least one character thinks of it solely as "that terrifying thing she did with her mouth". It frequently has an effect equal to or beyond that of a [[Slasher Smile]] without looking anything like one.