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* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: This line from chapter 16:
{{quote|Cologne, matriarch of the Amazons, War Leader of the Jokuzetsu, and generally an annoying old bat...}}
* [[Author's Saving Throw]]: Suggesting in chapter 15 that Pillow Creek, being a magical town, moves around -- thus explaining why Haynie gave it as being located in two different states.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Ranma wears one over her fighting gear (see ''Hell-Bent for Leather'', below) to hide it until it's time for a proper reveal.
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* [[Idiot Ball]]: The Narrator is of the opinion that Fred Yerfburger has it handcuffed to his wrist, although he doesn't say so in so many words. Fred's demonic familiar also comes to this conclusion, and decides she'd rather take the punishment she'll get for breaking her contract with him rather than get dragged down by his stupidity.
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Kasumi, who is so innocent that [[The Chikan|subway gropers]] won't come near her. However, her innocence and her automatic assumption that everyone is kind and good-hearted in everything they do make her come across as a bit dim. (However, she's anything bug dim; her apparent obliviousness is a benefit of her personal Art.)
* [[Informed Judaism]]: [[In-Universe]] example — in chapter 7, Ranma claims Ryoga is a ''rabbi'' — at the First Synagogue of [[Artistic License Religion|Judaic Shinto]] — in order to explain to a waitress why he won't eat pork. Apparently "he doesn't like it" wasn't a good enough reason.
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* [[Modesty Shorts]]: Ranma prescribes these for Akane at one point so as to allow her to train in walking on fences and [[Roof Hopping]] without offering boys [[Panty Shot]]s.
* [[Moe]]: To her shame and embarrassment, Fred Yerfburger's demonic familiar looks like a cute girl-next-door type dressed like a [[Magical Girl]], with absolutely ''nothing'' eldritch or disturbing about her
* [[Mundane Utility]]: During the costume party arc, Wolverine!Kasumi uses her adamantium claws to slice food.
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{{quote|[Shampoo] also was, at the moment (due to an unfortunate incident with a barber pole, a drunken sailor, a fire hydrant and a college fraternity prank), a cat.}}
* [[Nosebleed]]: Seems to be Ryoga's lot in life.
* [[Nosebleed]]: Ryoga suffers one in piglet form when Akane finds him on the beach in chapter 6, and he is not only pressed firmly against her breasts, he sees virtually every girl in the cast in a revealing swimsuit.▼
** He gets one and then passes out when he comes upon Ranma and the Tendo sisters all sunbathing in swimsuits in chapter 3.
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** He gets another one in human form (and passes out) in chapter 11, when he comes upon Ranma (in her battle leathers) and Akane (in her new fighting outfit) sparring together.
** He valiantly staves off several others during the course of the story.
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* [[Reset Button]]: Destroying the Amulet of Impressions causes reality to "snap back" to the way it was before Fred Yerfburger tried to take over the world, effectively making the previous two or so chapters not have happened, although not perfectly so. Mousse probably lost his raise, though.
* [[The Reveal]]: Although the fiancées' costumes for the costume party are discussed for a good chapter and a half — and Akane actually appears "on-screen" wearing hers at least once before the party — we don't actually find out what they ''are'' until the start of the party proper in the middle of chapter 11.
* [[Right Behind Me]]: This moment between Genma and Ranma from chapter 16:
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** Chapter 8 has the shopping-for-school sequence.
* [[Sobriquet]]: In chapter 14, Ranma refers to Tatewaki Kuno (who dubbed himself "the Blue Thunder" early on in canon) as "the Chartreuse Flatulence of Furinkan High", which is mutated by Shampoo into "the Green Fart". Within 48 hours it had become a game in which Kuno was addressed with
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: In her fury at being denuded and groped by Happosai, Kodachi simply gives up on her elegant speech pattern when trying to express herself.
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* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Ranma and Akane, generally. Although as chapter 8 demonstrates, Ranma can out-girly Akane (or any other girl) whenever she cares to, she prefers to think of herself as a tomboy.
* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: Subverted by Pillow Creek, Minnesota (or Michigan, or wherever), population 237. Hidden from mundane sight, it is almost entirely populated by powerful wizards who, with one notable exception, want nothing more than to study magic and occasionally cuddle with a friendly nature spirit while watching TV and drinking beer.
* [[Tsundere]]: Ranma in chapter 8, whipsawed back and forth by her hormones, switches between incandescent fury and girlish giggles within ''seconds''.
* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]: Chapter 17 runs two parallel plots for quite a while — one the tale of Hilda and the Chinese Vikings in Nerima, the other Tatewaki Kuno having a pleasant and uneventful day out on the town — until they inevitably intersect — and then promptly diverge again before they can actually interact.
* [[Understatement]]: Chapter 8 is filled with all manner of ... ''restrained'' commentary on Ranma's period-affected state of mind, ranging from the [[Lemony Narrator]]'s "She was in A Mood That Was Somewhat More Than Merely Bad" to Nodoka's own "Ranma may be... somewhat moody".
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** During the costume party arc, Nabiki's absolutely ''enraged'' that she's been turned into a literal bunny girl.
* [[Vagueness Is Coming]]: Ultimately subverted by the [[Crystal Ball|Crystal of Leng-Khao]] in chapter 11, which, though it initially just says "YOU'RE SCREWED", is happy to spew out paragraphs of detailed information (giving names, methods, and solution) when asked properly, and saying "YEP. THAT'S THE PLACE. HAVE FUN." when the cast
* [[Volleying Insults]]: A truly classic example can be seen in the "complicated traditional word-war" in which Shampoo and Hilda engage during chapter 17. True to the trope, it starts out lame and goes south from there, aided by both girls' [[Hulk Speak|limited grasp of Japanese]]:
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* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|When All You Have Is Mallets]]: You make reasonable facsimiles of your usual weapons from them.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: Pillow Creek, the wizard town, seems to wander between several states whose names start with "M". Minnesota and Michigan both are given, with Minnesota seen most often.
* [[Who's on First?]]: Chapter 11 has an exchange between Ryoga, Ranma and Akane that verges on this trope when both girls are being innocently sexy, which disturbs Ryoga; however, all he can manage to verbalize is that they stop doing "that", which he refuses to fully describe, confusing both Akane and Ranma.
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