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* [[Boobs of Steel]]: His female form is arguably the most buxom among the female cast, if you take "her" bust size in comparison to "her" relatively short stature; "she's" also arguably the physically strongest female among the regularly recurring characters.

** "She's" canonically got a better figure than Akane, at least -- bigger breasts, trimmer waist (and in the anime completes the trifecta with bigger hips). It's still often an [[Informed Attribute]], given that the size of ''all'' the teenage females varies quite a bit, and size differences between individuals aren't necessarily apparent in the artwork unless for some reason that aspect's getting played up in the story.

* [[The Bully]]: To Gosunkugi (accidentally). Also to Ryoga in Middle School.

* [[Bully Hunter]]: Has been hired to apprehend hoodlums on occasion, and on his own time he will put a stop to bullying he finds himself witnessing, such as Kodachi's continued brutalization of the already-defeated Furinkan gymnastic team or the masked kids that were attempting to rob Gosunkugi.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Ties in with [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty]] below.

* [[Compliment Backfire]]: Due to a very bad case of foot-in-the-mouth, even when he's not trying to insult Akane she gets pissed at him.

* [[Cross-Dressing Voices|Crossdressing Voice]]: English only. For the first three seasons of the dub, boy-type Ranma was played by a woman.

* [[Curse]]: Multiple. There's the obvious [[Gender Bender]] curse, but he also has one based on his hair constantly growing when not controlled by a magical item, and gains (and loses) others during the series' run -- being unable to stomach hot water, for example.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Far more so in the manga than the anime.

* [[Deadly Dodging]] + [[Nonchalant Dodge]] + [[Excuse Me While I Multitask]] + [[With My Hands Tied]]: These tropes are all closely related and all apply to Ranma.

* [[Enemy Without]]: In the anime, Happosai once used a magical incense called [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Personality Splitter]] to separate Ranma's female form from his male form, in hopes that she would be so happy with being her own person she would model underwear for him. Of course, it turned out that as an embodiment of Ranma's "yin side", it was basically Ranma's evil half come to life, trying to seduce Ranma and take control of him.

* [[Enjo Kosai]]: Willing to accept offers of food from guys who mistake him for a real girl, which Akane disapproves of, but is also happy to crush their feelings and chase them off by revealing he's really a guy. He also purposefully goes on dates to acquire things like information or items from people (he is not that interested in money but still went on the dates to be compensated) like Tatewaki or Shampoo.

* [[Not So Different]]: To many or even all of his rivals and fiancees -- Ranma has no qualms with cheating, lying, stealing, cheap shots, outright [[Mind Control|Mind Controlling]] people or, well, just about anything short of actually killing someone.

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Ranma gets caught in these situations roughly once per storyline. Including a few times with ''[[Ho Yay|Ryoga]]''. It's pretty much never what it looks like.

* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: During the Martial Arts Dining arc female Ranma wears several of these, including accessories such as necklaces and flowers. Various other stories have her in outfits that probably fall in this trope as well, such as cheongsams and kimonos.

** Ranma is also one of the rare examples of a male falling under this trope, as he is quite willing to dress up in fancy outfits in male form when the occasion arises.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Quite skilled at various domestic habits, particularly cooking, and hates a messy house so much he once forgot about a mission (not to mention the fact he was ''breaking into the flat in question'') to clean someone else's flat. He even started cleaning it up again when the owner returned and promptly made a new mess. Admittedly, a lot of his domestic skills can be presumed to stem from the fact he's been taking care of himself for as long as he could remember. In the anime, he also often wears a pastel orange shirt with a dinky little red bowtie, in a more literal version of the trope.

* [[Rule 63]]: and it's CANON

* [[She Fu]]: A heavy basis of his fighting style in either form, and he fought like this ''before'' becoming a [[Gender Bender]].

* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Actively and successfully set up Ryoga and Akari, attempted to hook up Cologne and Happosai, willing to help others such as Mousse and his mirror clone, etc.

* [[Sweet Tooth]]: In the anime, he is shown to ''adore'' ice cream, but is so afraid of looking unmanly that he always goes into girl form when he goes to buy some. The fact he can get more for less by playing on his female form's looks is all the more reason for him to shift shapes.

* [[The Tease]]

* [[Through His Stomach]]: He loves food, the girls around him know that, and so they are frequently trying to use food to get some attention from him. It actually doesn't work quite as often as you might think, even when it's not Akane who's trying it.

* [[Tiger Versus Dragon]]: He's actually both, depending on the fight. He's a tiger to Ryoga's lion but his signature technique, Hiryu Shoten Ha, invokes dragon imagery and he is a dragon to Saffron's phoenix.

* [[Wall Crawl]]: Scrambling up walls, poles and other sheer surfaces is a frequent habit of his, either to escape or gain a height advantage.

* [[Weak but Skilled]]: Comparatively speaking. Ranma is actually pretty powerful, but tends to use a combination of skill speed, strategy, and power to win a fight. In battles against opponents that are clearly displayed to have more raw offensive power than himself, such as the [[Orochi]], Happosai, Saffron, Rouge, Herb, or even Ryu Kumon, he has either won or obtained his objective because of his quick thinking,trickery, [[Attack Its Weak Point|using exploitable weak spots]], powerful weaponry, etc rather than by matching them outright.

* [[Wig, Dress, Accent]]: Frequently puts on a disguise to better [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulate]] people. However, in canon said "disguises" literally almost always only consist of simply changing her clothes, and otherwise look exactly the same. As this is a comedy series this is explicitly used as a [[Running Gag]] in that no matter how ridiculously ''bad'' the disguises almost consistently are Ryoga will be tricked. For example, in the "waterproof soap" story Ryoga recognises Ranma and Shampoo, but when they instantly change into swimsuits he doesn't. When informed who they are he says "[[Lampshade|so, your ingenious disguises fooled even ''me'']]. To Ranma's surprise this doesn't work on any of her schoolmates in the Tsubasa story, but the female form in itself can be useful against people who have never seen it before, such as Principal Kuno, even with just a swimsuit, or a dress and P-chan be enough to make tranced Happosai see a mother and her baby. Even Akane managed to see through the by far most ambitious disguise Ranma ever donned - a wig, glasses, make-up, and big dress, with the only time she was fooled being because Ryoga had just been fooled into thinking he was his ''non-existant'' sister.

* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Subverted: [[Would Hit a Girl|has no problems with fighting girls]], and while slightly more likely to go after them as a girl himself (to avoid looking bad), won't hesitate to take them on as a guy if he deems the situation calls for it. Basically, he has stated that he strongly ''dislikes'' hitting them, and, if he has enough of an advantage, will usually try to incapacitate them without causing any damage, but if he/she clearly does not, the situation is too dangerous, or (as with Konatsu) it is proven that holding back in this way will simply cause him to lose, he stops being chivalrous/considerate.

* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: His Shi Shi Hokodan requires him to get more and more depressed to make it more powerful. The downside is that it basically requires the user [[Despair Event Horizon|to be suicidally depressed]] in order to reach its maximum potential.

* [[Determinator]]: Acknowledged and justified in-universe; Ryoga's total lack of direction sense means that he typically has to spend hours or even days at a time walking without rest to get anywhere. As a consequence, he basically won't give up. Ever.

* [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]]: Whenever he gets the least bit distracted or overemotional, he breaks stuff. This may be why Akane refuses to acknowledge his feelings for her; the one time they actually did go on a fairly successful date, Shampoo mind-controlled Akane to get affectionate, and when he got overjoyed and tried to respond she was afraid that he would ''crush her to death'' in his excitement, and he then renders female Ranma unconscious and almost crushes her ribs after being tricked that she is Akane.

* [[The Eeyore]]: Sensitive and melancholic... The flipside of course is that his life really ''is'' [[Nightmare Fuel]] level terrible - at least until he meets Akari - and he still [[Determinator|perseveres]].

* [[Morality Pet]]: Inverted: ''being'' Akane's pet, and the resulting crush he develops, contributes both directly and indirectly to his [[Heel Face Turn]].

* [[Nice Hat]]: His bandanas

* [[Nosebleed]]: Scarcely a story goes by where he doesn't get at least one.

* [[No Sense of Direction]]: One of the most extreme examples ever. Also implied to be [[It Runs in The Family|hereditary]], as his parents suffer from this as well.

* [[The Stoic]]

* [[Super Speed]]: He's shown as slower than Ranma , somewhat swifter than Mousse (able to avoid all of dangerous weaponry, but taking some time), and effortlessly able to parry all of Genma's strikes while looking in another direction, but does not always use it efficiently (sometimes plows right ahead rather than listen to his reflexes), especially when in a rage.

* [[Tender Tears]]: Despite his physical strength, Ryoga is very emotional, and can start to cry just for feeling sorry even for Ranma.

* [[There Was a Door]]: Perfectly willing to just plow through anything in his way when he wants to get somewhere enough.

* [[Badass Boast]]: [[Large Ham|You're the one who's got it coming! How dare you use that tone. I won't allow it. For the sake of all mankind I promimsed I'd never again use this technique, but... By the power invested in me as Master of the founding School of Anything-Goes Martial Arts, I Happosai do hereby invoke my most powerful and mighty Technique. Happo Fire Burst!]]

** Genma and Soun: [[Oh Crap|Please Master, we don't want to die. We're sorry!]]

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: In the manga, where he once ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|hurt himself]]'' trying to think of a possible good deed he may have ever done, and also once declared he would be "evil until his dying days". Not in the anime, though, where he always tries to pass himself off as innocent and once even tried to reform for a pretty woman, going so far that he almost died of withdrawal from his perverse deeds.

* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Will do anything for a piece of lingerie or a peek at nude women, not to mention a grope, fondle or feel of female flesh.

 

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