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** Ranma, particularly in the manga, is very good at improvising weapons and has done so with a large variety of objects like pinwheels, rocks, sticks, clothesline poles, his hair, tennis rackets, paper fans, Ryoga, etc.
*** Pretty much a requirement given the rules imposed by this or that [[Martial Arts and Crafts]].
* [[Indecisive Parody]]: While some people consider it an action comedy series where the humor extends into the depiction of martial arts tropes, other people see it as this. Especially since it pokes fun at otherwise serious scenarios (a duel against a nigh-invulnerable opponent whose fingerpoke can explode a person to bits<ref>or so they believe</ref>, a teamup against a two story-tall minotaur monster, a no-holds-barred battle with a murderous ki master, a duel against a deathly-serious opponent with layers upon layers of meaning about family honor,) with hilarious [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade hangings]] of techniques and deconstructions of the foes' motives (an "Ultimate Secret Technique" that consists of running away to think up something better, the monster is actually a [[Jerkass]] martial artist named "[[Embarrassing First Name|Pantyhose Taro]]" by Happosai, Ranma stealing the deathly-serious opponent's clothes and leaving him in boxers, etc.) And that's the "serious" fights against "serious" enemies --the comedy-oriented [[Martial Arts and Crafts]] contests fully embrace the trope, showing eating contests or martial arts cooking battles with the same [[Serious Business|exaggerated drama]] of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' or ''[[Saint Seiya]]''.
* [[Indy Ploy]]: Every. Single. Fight.
** Ranma is particularly adept at coming up with new variations of old techniques during the middle of heated battles.
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* [[Jerkass]]: Most of the cast.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Ranma, and Ryoga. Ranma is a rude, obnoxious, conceited, petty, manipulative, braggart, but will generally feel sorry about being an ass and is compassionate and helpful towards most people in trouble. Ryoga gives a harsh first impression, his anger can run away with him, and he is prone to idiotic behaviour, but behaves in a more polite and considerate manner in general, is just as helpful as Ranma when confronted with people in trouble, and his compassion is as overemotional as the rest of him. (Typical example: when Ranma is rendered weak by Happosai, and needs someone to fight seriously against him, Ryoga tries to help, but finds that he is unable to consciously strike someone so much weaker than himself, and runs away crying [[Tender Tears]]... Also earlier in the same arc, it's Ryoga who saves Ranma from Tatewaki Kuno, Principal Kuno and Mousse, because he couldn't bear to see anyone taking advantage of his weakness.)
* [[Jumping the Shark]]: Fans who disapprove of the series' [[Genre Shift]] agree that this happened, but opinions seem to differ drastically on exactly when, with the most popular allegations being against the introduction of Happosai, but other opinions placing the series' jump as late as the introduction of Hinako.
* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]: the Shi Shi Hokodan and Moko Takabisha [[Ki Attacks]]. This is more notable in the anime, where they're shown as sustained energy beams in the second [[Non-Serial Movie]] (normally, they're [[Street Fighter|Hadoken-style]] fireballs). Herb's [[Ki Attacks]] are also like this once he gets out of [[Mode Lock]]. The anime has Natsume & Kurumi's "Ryūka Ringu", or "Ring of Dragon Fire", which is one part this to one part [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]. Though based on magic instead of ki, Saffron has a variety of fiery projectiles, all the way up to a super-blast of flame the name of which roughly translates as "Empire Instant Annihilation Blast".
* [[Kawaiiko]]: Azusa Shiratori
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* [[Kendo Team Captain]]: Tatewaki Kuno.
* [[Ki Attacks]]
* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: Those who don't think of Mousse as a [[Jerkass Woobie]] (and even some who do) typically regard Shampoo's mistreatment of him at this. It shows she can be cold, cruel and callous, yes, but, as they point out, Mousse is a blatant [[Stalker with a Crush]] who has been harrassing her for thirteen years before the series starts, at least, and chased her to Japan openly declaring his intention was to [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]. Shampoo makes it extremely clear in both continuities that she does not love Mousse and has never loved him (making Mousse's attempt to beat Ranma to make him "give her up" clearly more using him as a scapegoat than anything), rather than this being a case of [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]. Not only does she continually refuse his efforts to kiss her during one story in which she is looking at being [[Baleful Polymorph|turned into a cat forever]] if she can't be kissed, insisting that the only way the kiss will work is if she loves the person she kisses, the manga has a [[Filler]] story where she hears that it sounds like Mousse is going to die... and couldn't care less. While Ranma (who Mousse has tried to kill or at least humiliate dozens of times,) Cologne (who sees Mousse as an annoyance at best) and [[Chronic Hero Syndrome|Akane]] desperately race to save Mousse, Shampoo promptly turns on her [[Super Nintendo]] and starts playing games, leaving Akane, who was trying to warn her, to go storming off in disgust.
* [[Kid Samurai]]: Tatewaki Kuno.
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Saffron's attacks.
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* [[Knuckle-Cracking]]: Ranma likes to crack his knuckles, especially by just flexing his fingers, all the time when getting ready to start fighting seriously. Ryoga also makes a show of crushing some walnuts in his fingers to emphasize his attitude towards Ranma in his second appearance.
* [[Kryptonite-Proof Suit]]: Water proof soap.
* [[Kryptonite Is Everywhere]]: Present early in the series, with many convenient bodies/sources of cold water, and Ranma frequently being forced into otherwise benign bodies of water due to his tendency to jump before he looked (Tendo koi pond, anyone?). Disappointingly increasingly [[Averted]] [[Jumped the Shark|later in the series]]. [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|They threw away/forgot one of the primary gags of the series. Especially by having Ranma keep his secret from the school the whole time in the anime.]]
* [[Lamarck Was Right]]: The Musk Dynasty. To some extent, the Phoenix Kingdom. [[Superpowerful Genetics]] play a large role in these cultures' development.
** Well the Musk don't really fit this mold since their animalistic abilities come from ancestors who were actually magically transformed animals. The Phoenix clan does kinda fit the bill here though.
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*** {{spoiler|Yeah, '''after''' he thought that she had died because he'd taken too long to beat Saffron. He couldn't bring himself to say anything like that in the relatively calmer moments after they got back to Japan -- he even denied saying something like that out loud when Akane asked if he had said he loved her. (To be fair, it's unclear in the manga whether he actually said anything other than her name out loud.) And the only time Akane openly admitted her love for Ranma was during the contrary jewel arc, when under the influence of the titular artifact.}}
* [[Lethal Chef]]: Akane. Her cooking is so bad that anything living would get food poisoning (averted by Kurumi). Happosai, who's probably the most inhuman character in the series, couldn't even stomach eating her cookies and complained that he should've been warned they weren't meant for human consumption. This gets ridiculously [[Flanderized]] in [[Fanfic]], even after she begins to improve in the last third of the manga and makes an acceptable curry once (the funny part about this is that the men of the house only find this out after she leaves to deal with a "monster" in the woods at the request of some villagers, and they think she ran away from home out of rejection).
* [[Lighter and Softer]]:
** The anime, compared to the manga. [[Ranma ½]] may be a comedy, but it's an ''action''/drama/comedy, and the original manga is pretty dark sometimes (more so if considered from a first-person point of view). As [http://ranmarelated.blogspot.com/2008/01/darkness-of-ranma-matter-of-perspective.html this blog] points out, there are all sorts of things -- [[Power At a Price]] is alive and well (Most of the [[Charles Atlas Superpower|Charles Atlas Superpowers]] or [[Supernatural Martial Arts]] come at the cost of [[Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training]], include [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|Dangerous Forbidden Techniques]], inflict [[Power Incontinence]] (including [[Does Not Know His Own Strength|more physical strength than you can safely handle]]), requires [[Training from Hell]], is [[Harmful to Minors]], or any combination of the above), for starters. There have been multiple near-deaths and attempted murders, there are spells and items that can take away your [[Baleful Polymorph|body]], [[More Than Mind Control|mind]], even your [[Loss of Identity|personality]], your dreams can be invaded... The anime, though, turns down many of these events and even removes a few altogether (if only because some of the darkest stories came out after the anime was cancelled). With its canonical [[Alternate Character Interpretation]], the characters seem less of a [[Dysfunction Junction]], which helps.
** Example of the [[Lighter and Softer]]: in a [[Filler]] story, a mysterious weirdo has cursed paintings that he says will kill people if their seals are removed, citing how his grandfather and father, who painted two of them, died upon completion. In the anime, it's changed so that he specifies his ancestors were in their late 90s when they finished, implying he's just full of hot air and trying to drum up interest by overblowing things.
** Oddly, though, it's the anime that has the spider-demon and oni's seals be removed, causing them to emerge as [[Kaiju]], whereas in the manga only the scribble-panda comes out. Of course, Soun, Genma and Happosai promptly grow into giants themselves and hold them off all night without causing any damage.
* [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]]
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
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