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* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: The Japanese National Intelligence Directive's plan for the arrest of Soun and the Tendo sisters in chapter 9. It was apparently supposed to be handled with delicacy and class -- and instead ended up being performed by a set of [[Dirty Cop]]s with a grudge against the girls and no compunctions about applying as much [[Police Brutality]] as they felt they could get away with. When the JNID finds out, they stage [[Great Escape|a jailbreak]] to get them out of the cops' clutches.

* [[Government Agency of Fiction]]: The Japanese National Intelligence Directorate appears to be a [[Fictional Counterpart]] to the [[w:Public Security Intelligence Agency|Public Security Intelligence Agency]]; they both handle internal security and operate out of a headquarters in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.

* [[Gratuitous English|Gratuitous Australian]]: Walkabout, one member of the Australian superteam that shows up in chapter 9, very deliberately embraces the stereotype to the point that his speech is all but unintelligible to other English speakers, including his own teammates. Oddly, he also uses Cockney Rhyming Slang, just to add another layer of impenetrability to his speech.

* [[Gratuitous English|Gratuitous Australian]]: Walkabout, one member of the Australian superteam that shows up in chapter 9, very deliberately embraces the stereotype to the point that his speech is all but unintelligible to other English speakers, including his own teammates. Oddly, he ''also'' uses Cockney Rhyming Slang, just to add another layer of impenetrability to his speech.

* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: There's very little at the start, with the occasional "gomen" and "kawaii" slipping in here and there, along with a few other terms (like "butsudan") whose meanings can be inferred from context. However, the further along you go, the more random Japanese terms -- like "uchikake" and "oshugi", just to mention ''two'' -- appear without explanation. Sometimes Shurtleff provides enough context to guess what they probably mean, but honestly, most of them could certainly have been replaced with English without diminishing the narrative.

* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: There's very little to start with the occasional "gomen" and "kawaii" slipping in here and there, along with a few other terms (like "butsudan") whose meanings can be inferred from context. However, the further along you go, the more random Japanese terms -- like "uchikake" and "oshugi", just to mention ''two'' -- appear without explanation. Sometimes Shurtleff provides enough context to guess what they probably mean, but honestly, most of them could certainly have been replaced with English without diminishing the narrative.

* [[Great Escape]]: When the JNID finds out that the arrest of Soun, Akane and Nabiki -- which was supposed to be done with care and respect -- ended up in the hands of a set of [[Dirty Cop]]s with a grudge and a taste for [[Police Brutality]], they stage [[Great Escape|a jailbreak]] to get them out of the cops' clutches.

* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: Appears to be the ethos of the Gate. When describing the events Sailor Pluto was facilitating to bring about Crystal Tokyo, particularly the canonical [[Apocalypse How|Class 3 Planetary]] disaster that ushers it in, the Gate responds to Ranma's horror by blandly noting that there was nothing inherently ''wrong'' with Pluto's plan and that many of its guardians had chosen to prioritize the survival of their own species over others. It does admit, however, that the plan is draconian and that there are less extreme alternatives that would still guarantee the survival of humanity, in larger numbers than Pluto's plan would have.

* [[Half-Identical Twins]]: The Imperial Throne formalizes the convenient fiction that Ranma's two forms are actually a pair of fraternal twins, providing her with separate paperwork and legal existences for each.

* [[Hammerspace]]: As the Gate tells Ranma, each guardian has a "storage area" in subspace which, while limited, is still large enough to hold a few personal items and several changes of clothing. Putting things in and taking them out is a matter of simple visualization. (Which apparently does not apply to the transformation into guardian form.)

** Apparently the Senshi do ''not'' have this storage area, as Setsuna laments its loss after Ranma becomes Guardian Khronos.

* [[Happily Adopted]]: Harukichi, into the Yamada clan.

* [[Healing Factor]]: Ranma's canonical healing speed (a consequence of the manga/anime's slapstick violence) is turned into an actual ki skill for enhanced healing in the story, which then gets supercharged by the Gate's endless supply of pure ki.

* [[Healing Magic Is the Hardest]]: For the Gate at least, because of how delicate the work is when it has to heal Ranma's mind and brain after the magical construct that was the Neko-ken damaged both before the Gate was able to destroy it in chapter 6-7. But not beyond its abilities.

* [[Heavy Sleeper]]:

** Tsuya is apparently on a par with Ranma's canon behavior in this regard, judging by Midori's thoughts in chapter 4.

** On the other hand, Ranma discovers to her annoyance that, after the bonding with the Gate is complete, she now has a built-in alarm clock and cannot just sleep as long as she'd like any more.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Ranma is surprisingly conversant on varieties of tea, and knows how to comport herself properly when drinking tea with others, thanks to time spent with Kasumi. She recognizes and understands the social implications of seating positions during tea. She's also ''much'' smarter than she comes across in both canon and fan fiction, which becomes more obvious when the Gate removes a "weak neural inhibitor" effect on her, and later rebuilds her speech centers and language skills after accidentally causing damage during the bonding.

* [[High-Class Call Girl]]: What Nodoka was ''almost'' reduced to doing to support herself, before she was offered a contract to remove an "unwanted individual".

* [[Hollywood Healing]]: What Ranma's ki mastery gives her. The avalanche utterly shattered one forearm, and she insists it'll be fine in two weeks, to the utter bafflement of her cousins. (It actually gets better ''much'' faster, thanks to her connection with the Gate.)

* [[Hyperspace Mallet]]: Not literally, but the trope is invoked in-universe in chapter 9 when a telepathic security agent at the Imperial palace attempts to enter Ranma's mind. The Gate takes offense, and knocks him out with a telepathic image of a gigantic wooden mallet.

* [[Hyperspace Wardrobe]]: Ranma learns she has a literal "wardrobe" in subspace, in which she can store multiple outfits she can choose to change into when releasing her Guardian Khronos transformation.

* [[I Am Not Pretty]]: Ranma suffers from this in spades. After reverting from her first transformation into Guardian Khronos, she retains the [[Rapunzel Hair|gorgeous mass of red hair]] she gained and is even ''more'' stunning in appearance than she was to start with -- but despite the obvious effect her appearance has on the residents of the Yamada compound ''and'' their verbal reassurances to the contrary -- some very enthusiastic -- she is convinced she looks like "a complete idiot", "a total doofus" and "awful".

* [[I Am Not Pretty]]: Ranma suffers from this in spades. After reverting from her first transformation into Guardian Khronos, she retains the [[Rapunzel Hair|gorgeous mass of red hair]] she gained and is even ''more'' stunning in appearance than she was to start with -- but despite the obvious effect her appearance has on the residents of the Yamada compound ''and'' their verbal reassurances -- some very enthusiastic -- to the contrary, she is convinced she looks like "a complete idiot". "a total doofus" and "awful".

* [[I Gave My Word]]: This is Ranma in spades (just as in canon):

** Ranma does not abandon the cousins and head right back to Nerima because she promised Akane she would return as a man. ([[Squick|And because Mr. Tendo threatened to force her to marry ''him'' if she came back still locked in female form.]])

** Ranma also never even considers refusing to go through with becoming the Gate's guardian, even when she discovers it means becoming a [[Magical Girl]] wearing [[Frills of Justice]]. She gave her word, and even -- especially! -- in the face of consequences she considers unpleasant she will not break it.

* [[I Have No Son|I Have No Daughter]]: Subverted. While Aiko is forced to disown Nodoka for marrying Genma in order to protect the clan, it is reluctantly and without rancor. She hopes for a reunion someday, and she sets up a monthly stipend so that Nodoka is taken care of, regardless. (Unfortunately, the stipend is embezzled by an investment banker whom Aiko had thought trustworthy, leaving Nodoka nearly penniless, believing that this trope is the case and that she is [[The Unfavourite]].)

* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: The [[Dirty Cop]] alone with Nabiki in her room, allegedly to retrieve all her blackmail material and proceeds. Because what she's retrieved and handed over allegedly isn't "everything", he orders her to strip, followed by a [[Villainy Discretion Shot]]. (It turns out he forced her to pose for nude photographs.)

* [[I Never Told You My Name]]: Ranma immediately realizes the cousins know who she is because Midori addresses her by name shortly after Ranma wakes from her chapter 2 [[Power Strain Blackout]].

* [[Ignored Enemy]]: Ranma abruptly breaks off her fight with Sailor Pluto in chapter 6 to yell at the Gate for misleading her about the appearance of the Guardian uniform. While Pluto doesn't mind the break (she was already starting to get the worst of the battle), she ends up having to shout at Ranma to get her attention back. "Oh, so NOW you want to talk?" Ranma snarks.

* [[In Medias Res]]: The story starts with the final moments of Ranma's battle with Herb on Mount Horai.

* [[In the Name of the Moon]]: Explicitly averted for Guardian Khronos. Ranma doesn't want to make any speeches, and her [[Transformation Sequence]] does not force her to give one at the end (and she is very glad of it; the enforced poses are bad enough).

* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: Ranma is this [[In-Universe]] to Midori, who is attracted to both her forms.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]:

** Aiko makes a point of addressing and referring to Ranma with masculine pronouns and other terms, to reassure her that she is perceived as the man she was and is, despite the locked curse.

** The Crystal consistently refers to individual Senshi as "Protector (Planet Name)" instead of "Sailor (Planet Name)".

** Similarly, the Gate calls its bonded partners "Guardians".

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: Although it never appears on-screen, the spirit of Happosai's daughter Yasuko spoke with a dragon named Tokoyo to determine if Ranma actually died or not. (She gets a vague answer that seems to imply Ranma's survival but leaves some doubt.) The dragon also gives Yasuko, unasked, a [[MacGuffin|pendant]] for him that it recommends he wear for at least a year, suggesting it might have played a larger role in the long-term plot.

* [[Invisible to Normals]]: Stunningly averted in chapter 7 when we learn that at least one parent or guardian of each of the Inner Senshi ''already knew'' they were Sailor Senshi -- one of them from the very start -- and socialized because of it (as well as had a running bet on which of the Senshi would blow the "secret" first). The Japanese government is very aware of them as well, thank you.

* [[Involuntary Shapeshifter]]: In the side story ''Illusions of Honor'', Nodoka appears to unknowingly possess some manner of ability which changes her appearance. While going on interviews for low-level hostess jobs, she attempted to disguise herself, and was unusually successful despite her limited resources. She noted that the cheap hair dye she used inexplicably looked like natural hair color, and that her face seemed to have changed shape slightly. And one woman she spoke with asked her where she purchased the contact lenses which made her eyes blue -- when she had done no such thing and her eyes were ''maroon''. By the end of the story, though, it's strongly hinted that she has gained some measure of control over the ability, which she uses in her occasional job as a [[Professional Killer|government assassin]]. Given the title of the story, it seems likely to be some manner of illusion power rather than actual shapeshifting.

* [[Involuntary Shapeshifter]]: In the sidestory ''Illusions of Honor'', Nodoka appears to unknowingly possess some manner of ability which changes her appearance. While going on interviews for low-level hostess jobs, she attempted to disguise herself, and was unusually successful despite her limited resources. She noted that the cheap hair dye she used inexplicably looked like natural hair color, and that her face seemed to have changed shape slightly. And one woman she spoke with asked her where she purchased the contact lenses which made her eyes blue -- when she had done no such thing and her eyes were ''maroon''. By the end of the story, though, it's strongly hinted that she has gained some measure of control over the ability, which she uses in her occasional job as a [[Professional Killer|government assassin]]. Given the title of the story, it seems likely to be some manner of illusion power rather than actual shapeshifting.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: When she confronts Genma in chapter 6, Nodoka angrily describes Akane as a "violent maniac", unknowingly echoing Kasumi's far fonder description of her sister from the first episode/chapter of ''[[Ranma ½]]''.

* [["It" Is Dehumanizing]]: Explicitly invoked by the Gate regarding itself. It takes the time to correct Ranma when she tries to assign a gender to it, telling her that "it" is the most accurate pronoun to use because it isn't human, or even alive, precisely.

** By comparison, the trope is very oddly averted with the Glaive of Space (which is explicitly a "he") and the Crystal of Life (which is a "she").

* [[It's All About Me]]: Genma, to a ridiculous extreme. Because Ranma is so important to Genma's plans for his own enrichment, [[Accidentally Accurate|he refuses to believe that Ranma is dead.]] And in chapter 11 he spies on Kasumi as she's crying over the Imperial arrest warrants for Akane and Nabiki. His thoughts make it clear that he thinks they are for himself and Soun, regardless of the evidence of the aftermath of the police raid.

* [[Justified Tutorial]]: Over the course of chapters 7 and 8, the Gate walks Ranma through all her basic powers and the major functions of the Gate she can access.

* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]: Ranma's [[Ki Attacks|''moko takabisha'' attack]] -- already impressive before her partial bonding -- becomes a solid bar of incandescent energy when the Gate is supplying her with ki. She has to make an effort to force it down to a non-lethal level when fighting Sailor Pluto.

* [[Kid Samurai]]: Midori, who alone of the four cousins favors direct combat and as such is training in the Yamada sword styles.

* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Before she finds out "Ranko" and Ranma are one and the same, Nodoka blames "Ranko"'s loneliness, "tomboyishness" and desperate desire to please her on presumed mistreatment by her peers, and cites this trope by name.

* [[Knight Templar]]: Haruka definitely comes across as one; Michiru less so.

* [[Lazy Husband]]: One of the charges Nodoka makes of Genma, as a symptom of his lack of honor and status as an unfit spouse.

* [[Left Hanging]]: Pick a plot thread, any plot thread. We'll never know if Ryoga survived, just what was up with Happosai and his late daughter and why it was so important, what was going to happen when Ranma met the Sailor Senshi (other than Pluto) for the first time...

* [[Little No]]: In chapter 9, Ukyo mutters this in the middle of a pair of Imperial agents settling the now-defunct Saotome clan's last debts with the Kuonji clan, when she realizes this must mean that Ranma really is dead, as Nabiki had earlier implied.

* [[Loophole Abuse]]: The Gate of Time is unable to disobey its guardian, who has for many thousands of years been Sailor Pluto. Nor can it choose a different guardian -- unless its current guardian is ''dead'' and there is no third party present to <s>select</s> impose a candidate, which is the case with Pluto in the aftermath of Mugen Gakuen. The Gate takes advantage of its brief window of opportunity before Pluto is automatically resurrected to select and bond with a new guardian of ''its'' choice.

* [[Love Confession]]: Midori makes one to Ranma at the end of chapter 10, as part of trying to explain to her why she was willing to go along with the [[Arranged Marriage|instant marriage arranged for them]] by the Imperial Throne. Ranma, used to the [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]s of the fiancée brigade, can't grasp at first Midori's quiet willingness to sacrifice her own happiness for Ranma's.

* [[Love Confession]]: Midori makes one to Ranma at the end of chapter 10, as part of trying to explain to her why she was willing to go along with the [[Arranged Marriage|instant marriage arranged for them]] by the Imperial Throne. Ranma, used to the [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]s of the fiancee brigade, can't grasp at first Midori's quiet willingness to sacrifice her own happiness for Ranma's.

* [[Ludicrous Precision]]: The Gate does this on several occasions, such as giving the duration of Sailor Pluto's multi-millennia term as its guardian down to the second, or the actual objective time of Ranma's [[Transformation Sequence]] down to ten-thousandths of a second. Then again, the Gate is something like a [[Magitek]] computer designed specifically to measure and manipulate time, so it's kind of [[Justified Trope|justified]],

* [[Magical Girl]]: In addition to the Sailor Senshi, the artifacts' Guardians are ''also'' Magical Girls, a fact the Gate was not clear on when offering the position to Ranma. Ranma is somewhat upset about this when she finally puts it all together and realizes what she's agreed to.

* [[Magical Girl Warrior]]: The artifacts' Guardians are very much warriors, being explicitly tasked with fighting off and putting down anyone who wants their power for themselves.

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: In chapter 10 Ranma's aunt Suzu credits Aiko with being one of these for "hiding" "Ranko"'s birth, and apparently disowning Nodoka solely to add a further level of deception and protection, among other clever moves. Aiko may well be an example of this trope -- indeed, it's almost certain that she is -- but Suzu is attributing unrelated events to her mother-in-law's foresight and planning.

* [[Magitek]]: The Gate (and perhaps the Crystal and the Glaive, as well) appears to be some manner of magitek device, and it views magical effects in terms more scientific than mystical -- such as when it interprets the web of curses and other magic on Ranma as mutually reinforcing and interfering fields of energy.

* [[Maid Corps]]: The Yamada employ a small such corps, and they're all [[Ninja Maid|ninja]].

* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative Bitch]]: Nabiki Tendo, even more so than in most ''Ranma'' fics. When Nodoka informs the Tendo sisters that Ranma is dead, Nabiki's response is to ask, "what proof do you have that Ranma is dead anyway?" Her only reaction to ''seeing'' that proof is to say, "Well, it was certainly fun while it lasted," and to regret the loss of the income and entertainment Ranma had provided her. She then goes on to cheerily sell a copy of the video of Ranma's "death" to Ukyo for 9000 yen (approximately US$90).

** Nabiki is not a [[Karma Houdini]] like many Manipulative Bitches, though, and gets what many might think is [[Disproportionate Retribution]] at the hands of the police who arrest her and Akane, at least in the revised version of their arrest.<ref>There was no doubt it was disproportionate in the original version of those scenes, where among other humiliations a [[Dirty Cop]] explicitly assaulted her sexually. Now the scene ends as a [[Villainy Discretion Shot]] as the cop instructs her to strip, allegedly for a through search.</ref>

* [[Manly Tears]]: Averted when Ranma briefly falls to pieces in her mother's arms in chapter 9, giving out huge wracking sobs (which also averts [[Men Don't Cry]]).

* [[Masquerade]]: Despite what they might think, the Sailor Senshi are ''far'' from the only paranormals on Earth, nor are they [[Invisible to Normals]]. Leaving aside all the magic, ghosts, monsters and other supernatural elements present due to the crossover with ''Ranma ½'', there are apparently [[Superhero]]es and other metahumans all over the world; the Emperor's security staff alone has an entire troop of psionically-active agents.

* [[Master of Disguise]]: A part of the cousins' training according to Midori in chapter 10, although more of an [[Informed Ability]] as we never get to see them use it in the extant material.

* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: When Ranma is fretting about marrying Midori in chapter 10, specifically about how it's for "the rest of her life", the Gate points out that Ranma's lifespan is now potentially measurable in ''thousands'' of years, and being married to Midori for a mere 50 or 60 years is a mere blip on that scale. Ranma's not entirely sure that that's much better, but the Gate implies that if she meets her soulmate, said soulmate will also gain an extended lifespan.

* [[The Men in Black]]: Various government agents of different kinds appear in the story, but the ones that most closely embody this trope are the field agents of the Japanese National Intelligence Directorate, who wear a "uniform" of a black suit, white shirt, and a red tie.

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* [[Morton's Fork]]: Cologne, in Shurtleff's side story, realizes that she was stuck in one with Ranma -- his skills and ability to teach them were of paramount importance to the tribe, but he was unwilling to join the tribe and effectively immune to "softer" methods of persuasion. But using the most extreme methods she had available to her would break him and make him useless to the tribe. So she was caught in a situation where she both ''had'' to use those methods, and dared not use them.

* [[Motor Mouth]]: Usagi gets out an impressive stream of unseparated phonemes when Setsuna comes to visit her in chapter 10.

* [[Mugging the Monster]]: Subverted in chapter 9 by the police who come to arrest Akane and Nabiki. In canon ''[[Ranma ½]]'', they would have been cannon fodder for Akane (and for Soun, who is enraged by the arrests of his daughters). However, they have been watching the Tendos for a while, have come equipped with high-powered electrical stun batons and high-tensile-strength cordage for securing Akane.

* [[Mukokuseki]]:

** Harukichi is a [[Significant Green-Eyed Redhead]] and Tsuya is a blue-eyed blonde.

** The American naval officer mentioned under ''Anime Hair'' above is supposedly very visibly Japanese in heritage, but has platinum hair and blue eyes, which evokes no response other than simply cataloguing them among his features.

* [[Multigenerational Household]]: The Yamada compound.

* [[Narrative Profanity Filter]]: Occasionally used. For instance, in chapter 6, when the Glaive awakens and discovers his guardian (Hotaru) is an infant and can't tell him why he was in Emergency Core Override (and effectively unconscious) for at least a thousand years:

{{quote|His personality matrix permitted him to swear. He did so. Profusely.}}

* [[Necromancer]]: Happosai performs a [[Ritual Magic|ritual]] in chapter 8 to allow him to communicate with his dead daughter/lover regarding the fate of Ranma.

* [[Nepotism]]: An [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] in the JNID who has a history of impeding active ops for trivial reasons can't be fired because he's the brother-in-law of the agency comptroller.

* [[Never Mess with Granny]]: Aiko Yamada, as the matriarch of a ninja clan, is no less skilled than any of her descendants still pursuing the art, is very politically savvy, and has the ear of the emperor.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Ranma's reaction to her first try throwing a "Khronos Tiara Action" attack is, "Whoa. That's some headgear."

* [[Nice Hat]]: Ranma's reaction to her first try throwing a "Khronos Tiara Action" attack is, "Whoa. That’s some headgear."

* [[Ninja]]: Nodoka was born into the Yamada, one of the last surviving ninja clans in modern Japan. (She herself is not a ninja, but a kendoka.) Ranma's four female cousins are also being trained as kunoichi.

** According to the Emperor in chapter 10, there are only 15 ninja clans left in Japan, and all but two (one of which are the Yamada) are either affiliated with [[Yakuza|organized crime]] or are involved in [[Feuding Families|blood feuds]] with other ninja clans. He asks Ranma and Midori to marry to preserve the near-extinct Yamada and their art.

* [[Ninja Maid]]: All of the Yamada maids. Of them all, though, Seiko acts the most like a [[Battle Butler]] to Aiko.

* [[Noodle Incident]]:

** A significantly less comedic example than usual is found at the beginning of chapter 9, when Happosai and the spirit of Yasuko Saotome, his daughter, discuss ''something'' that Happosai did that seems to have resulted in her death but also gave her five years of motherhood. From what little is actually said, whatever it was seems to have been more -- and more damaging -- than the [[Parental Incest]] that resulted in Genma's birth.

** Also in chapter 9 is a throwaway line about the origin of one of the Australian superteam investigating where Ranma did her "practicing" with her Guardian powers, when one member of the team shudders at the unspecified memory of "the terrible price Lizzy had paid for her powers."

** In both cases it is possible the events in question may have been explored and explained, had the author not abandoned the story.

* [[North Korea]]: According Ranma's account of the training trip, Genma originally wanted to go through North Korea on the way to Jusenkyo, but there had been a big troop build-up and he couldn't figure out how to do it without getting them both shot full of holes.

* [[Nosebleed]]: Midori gets one in chapter 4 when a braless Ranma stretches after a nap.

* [[Not Listening to Me, Are You?]]: Ranma is so sure upon meeting them that the cousins are new fiancees that while ranting about what Genma might have sold her off for ''this'' time, she misses the first few attempts Midori makes to tell her they're family. Midori finally has to resort to yelling at her to get Ranma to listen.

* [[Not Now, Kiddo]]: Cologne invokes this trope ''way'' too many times in Shurtleff's untitled side story.

* [[Obfuscating Insanity]]: Tatewaki Kuno ''and'' Kodachi Kuno are both faking their apparent mental issues, apparently to give them excuses for running off in the middle of the day to deal with supernatural threats.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Ditto for Tatewaki Kuno and this trope. He's much smarter than he lets on.

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Someone named Ito in the NID impeded the mysterious Chameleon project by preventing payments to informants and contacts for over two months, apparently for a petty reason related to a [[Noodle Incident]] that reflected badly on him. Ito apparently has a history of getting in the way of active operations for stupid reasons, but he can't be gotten rid of because [[Nepotism|he's the brother-in-law of the agency comptroller]].

* [[Oh Crap]]: Aiko gets two in rapid succession in chapter 8.

** First there is her discovery of how... thorough Nodoka was in ending the Saotome clan and the repercussions it has on the Yamada -- although with the lack of later material in the story, it's impossible to understand just ''why'' it prompts Aiko to enact a number of Yamada contingency plans including dispatching Ranma and the cousins to overseas safe houses.

** Then there's the invitation to tea with the Emperor that interrupts Aiko's panic over Nodoka's actions. If only because it specifically mentions Nodoka and Ranma (as "Ranko") by name -- and a distraught Ranma had just teleported to points unknown only a few minutes before.

** In chapter 9, Nabiki gets several of increasing severity in a row when she, Akane and their father are arrested; every time she thinks [[Hope Spot|things have gotten as bad as they're possibly going to get]], [[From Bad to Worse|it gets worse]], with a corresponding [[Oh Crap]] at the realization.

* [[Old Man Marrying a Child]]: Perhaps not to the extreme typical of the trope, but Soun's (canon) threat to marry Ranma himself if she fails to break the lock on her curse is viewed in this manner by the Yamada.

* [[Original Character]]: The entire Yamada clan, but especially Aiko, the cousins, and the servants.

* [[Out-of-Character is Serious Business]]: The moment in chapter 11 when ever-serene, ever-oblivious Kasumi shouts at a pair of Akane's friends for bad-mouthing Ranma, whom she believes to be dead. It's just the latest moment in a [[Trauma Conga Line]] that will ultimately push her over the [[Despair Event Horizon]].

* [[Overprotective Dad|Overprotective Mom]]: Strongly implied of Minako's mother Akiko, who is ''not'' the parent who knows she's Sailor Venus; her father Hiroshi has apparently been running interference for her in this regard.

* [[Parental Incest]]: {{spoiler|It's revealed that Genma is Happosai's son -- by way of Happosai's adult daughter -- and that the Yamada have long suspected this is the case. Intriguingly -- and surprisingly given Happosai's personality -- it appears to have been a mutually loving and consensual relationship between two adults.}}

* [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage]]: The story never gets far enough to be sure -- it ends before they even get back from their honeymoon -- but it certainly looks like Ranma and Midori got off on the right foot with their marriage.

* [[Pimped-Out Dress|Pimped-Out Kimono]]: Ranma is put into a series of these, including the kimono counterpart to a [[Fairytale Wedding Dress]] (all provided by the Imperial Throne) during her wedding to Midori and subsequent reception in chapter 10. We don't actually ''see'' most of them, but they're quite prominent in Ranma's thoughts.

* [[Place of Power]]: Happosai travels a considerable distance, carrying a large backpack of supplies, in order to visit a hidden building which is apparently the only place where he can perform the [[Necromancer|necromantic]] [[Ritual Magic|ritual]] that allows him to speak with the spirit of his daughter.

* [[Police Brutality]]: In chapter 9, Akane and Nabiki (along with their father) are arrested by police from the Chiyoda-ku precinct, who mistreat them when they're incarcerated at the local station. (And in the original version of the scenes, [[Lost Forever|rewritten by Shurtleff after reader complaints]], the mistreatment was onscreen and detailed, with Soun subject to a brutal beating, both girls blasted with fire hoses, and Nabiki sexually assaulted. References to the events in the lost material can be found in the final paragraphs of chapter 11.)

* [[Power Glows]]: A side effect of Ranma's [[Power Incontinence]] before she finishes the bonding with the Gate. Just as in real life it indicates that energy is being used inefficiently and wasted, as Ranma and the Gate both note several times.

** The obviously magical pendant Happosai receives from a dragon in chapter 9 briefly glows with brilliant light when he puts it on.

** In chapter 11, Kasumi (unknown to herself) glows a soft white when drawing on what she perceives as the Tendo ancestors for support and emotional strength.

* [[Power Incontinence]]: Until Ranma can complete the bonding process with the Gate, she suffers from having more ki than she can use, almost more than she can control, and too much to use with any kind of fine control. And the Gate eventually admits she will lose control of the ki within days if she doesn't complete the bonding quickly.

* [[Power Strain Blackout]]: Ranma passes out from overexertion shortly after tunneling her way out from under the avalanche at the end of chapter 2.

* [[Power-Up]]: In a non-video game example, Ranma explicitly describes the impending completion of her bond with the Gate as this. She's still surprised to find that even before the completion of the bond, her [[Ki Attacks]] have been turned practically into strategic weapons. And after, her pre-existing combat training combined with the [[Suddenly Always Knew That|implantation of the knowledge of how to use her tools and abilities]] allows her to ''start'' at the third of five tiers of power with those abilities, giving her access to attacks and defenses that Sailor Pluto never even knew existed.

* [[Praetorian Guard]]: The Imperial Palace is guarded by at least some psionically active agents.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: In chapter 6, Nodoka calls the Tendos "an honorless family of ''eta''." "''Eta''" is an especially nasty term for ''burakumin'', the unspoken-of outcast caste of Japanese society. It's about the worst thing you can call someone in Japanese, tantamount to "diseased, shit-covered subhuman unwelcome in the company of proper people."

* [[Pride]]: In chapter 7, Haruka demonstrates a truly appalling level of arrogance about how much "better" she and Michiru are than the Inner Senshi, Usagi in particular. She catalogs everything she believes they need to learn that Haruka and Michiru are just ''right'' people to teach them and "push Usagi into greatness". She is also harshly critical of the very qualities that make Usagi [[The Messiah]], seeing them as inappropriate and unworthy of the kind of Princess that Haruka thinks she should be.

** Pride is also behind almost all of Nodoka's missteps throughout the backstory.

* [[Professional Killer]]: According to the sidestory ''Illusions of Honor'', one of the ways Nodoka made ends meet over the years is by taking the occasional assassination contract for the government, which also allows her to keep her kendoka/kunoichi skills sharp. It is clear that these contracts are a kind of charity from someone in the government aware of her situation and wishing to give her a means of supporting herself while making use of her family skills. Given the interest the Emperor has in maintaining the Yamada as a living ninja clan, it may well have been at his orders. Empress Chikako's casual acknowledgment of Nodoka's service in chapter 10 seems to confirm this.

* [[The Promise]]: In chapter 10, when the Emperor gives Ranma and Midori permission to be informal with him, Ranma is certain that one (made, as usual, on her behalf without her knowledge) involving a potential fiancée is about to be [[The Reveal|sprung on her]]. {{spoiler|She's wrong, but there still turns out to be a potential fiancée involved.}}

* [[The Promise]]: In chapter 10, when the Emperor gives Ranma and Midori permission to be informal with him, Ranma is certain that one (made, as usual, on her behalf without her knowledge) involving a potential fiancee is about to be [[The Reveal|sprung on her]]. {{spoiler|She's wrong, but there still turns out to be a potential fiancee involved.}}

* [[Psychic Link]]: One exists between Ranma and the Gate; establishing this was the first step in the bonding process, and required the injured, semi-conscious Ranma's agreement in chapter one.

* [[Punch Clock Hero|Punch Clock Spy]]: In chapter 11, NID Chameleon project chief Hiroyoshi picks up data disks from a contact -- a hot dog vendor -- who complains that his invoices haven't been paid.

* [[Random Teleportation]]: During her first few tries at teleporting, Ranma discovers if she loses focus on her intended target, she may go somewhere else familiar which is similar to where she actually ''wanted'' to go, or where she subconsciously wishes she were (like the Tendo dojo).

* [[Ransacked Room]]: The police arresting Nabiki did this to the entire Tendo home, looking for any contraband or other evidence of her activities. Kasumi is grateful that they did not indulge in wanton destruction during the course of it; most of the family's breakables remained intact afterwards. But that is small comfort in the wake of a search which included torn-out walls.

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: The guardian transformation, among other changes, gives Ranma a thick, curling mane of red hair down almost to her knees (as seen in the page image). As an unanticipated side effect (which initially the Gate has no explanation for), it ''doesn't go away'' when she changes back.

* [[Rich Bitch]]/[[Upper Class Twit]]: Tomoko Yamada, although we only see her at a remove, presents herself this way whenever she appears on-screen -- her entitled attitude comes across strongly with her insistence on wearing modern/Western clothing to tea at the Imperial Palace in chapter 9, and her visible anger at not being invited to a private audience with the Emperor when others are so honored. Her husband Jiro is warned during the events at the Palace (by his brother Ichiro) that her behavior is close to costing him a lucrative government contract, the loss of which will have a domino effect on other possible contracts.

* [[Ritual Magic]]:

** The Gate's analysis of the Neko-ken revealed that the "training" was nothing of the sort -- it was a magical ritual designed to [[Mind Virus|destroy its subject's mind and personality and replace it with some manner of magical construct]] intended as an unstoppable [[The Berserker|berserker]]. Fortunately for Ranma, her father bungled it -- apparently by skipping several key steps he either didn't understand or thought were inconvenient -- allowing her to retain her own mind and fight the construct down most of the time.

** Happosai performs an involved [[Necromancer|necromantic]] ritual in chapter 8 to summon and speak with the spirit of his daughter.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Nodoka after she learns of Ranma's apparent death from the videotape given to her by Harukichi. She publicly declares the end of the Saotome clan; she closes and seals the Saotome family registry, officially "killing" the clan; she declares blood feud on the Tendos; and she reverts to her kendoka training and garb to literally hunt down and kill Genma.

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Emperor Hitomaro and Empress Chikako of Japan. Interestingly, they admit that normally they work to ''avert'' this trope, trying not to interfere in the affairs of the clans and people. But sometimes they find they must act, as they do to preserve the Yamada clan and its heritage by arranging the marriage between Ranma and Midori, and when they do they are ''very'' effective.

* [[Sailor Fuku]]: Ranma is appalled when she realizes that the guardian's uniform is a variation on a seifuku, and accuses the Gate of misleading her about its appearance.

* [[Sailor Fuku]]: Ranma is appalled when she realizes that the guardian's uniform is a variation on a seifuku, and accuses the Gate of misleading her.

* [[San Francisco]]: The Emperor and Empress give Ranma and Midori a honeymoon here as their wedding gift.

* [[Saving the World]]: Ranma nearly undergoes a [[Heroic BSOD]] when she realizes that one of the first tasks facing her as the Gate's new guardian is undoing Sailor Pluto's plan for Crystal Tokyo and saving as much of the 95% of humanity who would have died as she can.

* [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]]: At the end of chapter 6, when Luna realizes she's just spoken, loud and long, in front of Sailor Moon's mother Ikuko, she looks up at Ikuko and says, "Umm, meow?"

* [[Second Law of Gender Bending]]: Nodoka attempts to enforce this on Ranma even though she's been told Ranma's [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock|lock]] will eventually end.

* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: During the events of Shurtleff's untitled side story, Cologne admits to herself that the Amazon tribe's arrogance and self-importance are rooted in a profound level of willful blindess about the rest of the world and their place within it.

* [[Seppuku]]: The final step Nodoka intends to take at the end of her [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]], only to have it interrupted by a messenger from her mother, and then rendered moot when Aiko informs her that Ranma is alive.

* [[Sexual Extortion]]: Strongly implied of the [[Dirty Cop]]'s order to Nabiki to strip, right before a [[Villainy Discretion Shot]] in chapter 9.<ref>In an earlier version of the story, the cop very clearly commits sexual assault upon her; in the final version he forces Nabiki to pose nude for several dozen photographs, in what he thinks is [[Laser-Guided Karma|poetic justice]].</ref>

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: Shurtleff's untitled side story is effectively a shaggy dog story, in which Cologne struggles to get information out of the inhabitants of a village while ignoring the one person who not only could answer all her questions, but is actively ''trying'' to.

* [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock]]: Part of the key divergence of the [[Alternate Universe]] -- a canonical lock on Ranma's gender-bending curse is not undone as it was in canon. Ultimately subverted, as Ranma learns that it will wear off by itself in no more than seven years, or if she trains sufficiently in magic, she can break it herself much faster.

* [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock]]: Part of the key divergence of the [[Alternate Universe]] -- a canonical lock on Ranma's gender-bending curse is not undone as it was in canon. Ultimately subverted, as Ranma learns that it will wear off by itself in no more than seven years, or if she trains sufficiently in magic, she can break it faster.

* [[Schmuck Bait]]: The police who arrest Nabiki and Akane in chapter 9 have no warrant for anyone else, but they lure Soun into attacking them so they can stun and arrest him as well.

* [[Signed Language]]: The Yamada clan ninja. We see them using it from the very first moments of the story, when Midori gives a new assignment to Harukichi with hand signals. And there's at least one scene where Matriarch Aiko has one conversation with one of her granddaughters on a verbal level, and a completely different one in the clan sign language. Further, the Yamada sign language is not ''limited'' to hand signals -- it incorporates ''full-body'' communication, using everything from posture to eyebrow twitches to communicate as clearly as speech.

* [[Significant Green-Eyed Redhead]]: Harukichi, who is described as "striking", even in comparison to the other cousins, none of whom are anything less than beautiful.

* [[Silk Hiding Steel]]: Aiko, to be sure, but this is a fundamental element of the Yamada ninjutsu.

* [[Slapstick]]: Usagi's panicked reactions to the Crystal's first communications with her in chapter 7 devolve into this, including flailing her ponytails around and getting them in Rei's mouth while the latter is trying to get out her transformation phrase.

* [[Sleep Cute]]: Midori is of the opinion Ranma does this, even commenting "kawaii" when seeing her napping.

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: During the events of Shurtleff's untitled side story, Cologne muses on how she was forced to acknowledge that this is the case for the Chinese Amazons -- that as far as the rest of the world is concerned, they are a minuscule tribe of backwater barbarians whose martial arts prowess is only exceeded by their ignorance and arrogance.

* [[South Korea]]: In chapter 11, as they fly to San Francisco, Ranma tells Midori the story of the training trip that ended with Jusenkyo, and how one leg took her and Genma through South Korea from the southernmost tip all the way up to the DMZ.

* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Tomoko Yamada comes across, admittedly at a distance, as a grown-up version. At least some of her in-laws view her as such.

* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Tomoko Yamada comes across, admittedly at a distance, as a grown-up version.

* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: The cousins come across this way, if you ignore that they are being intensively trained as ninja.

* [[Spy Speak]]: The cousins use classic "squad in hostile territory"-style code speak over their radio headsets when searching Prince Arisugawa Park for Chibi-Usa (and the Gate's Lesser Key) in chapter 6:

{{quote|"Check four. Delivery complete, five is in route. Repeat: delivery complete, five in route."}}

Line 435:

Line 318:

Kuroi frowned a moment later. "Negative, Wild Colt has left the stable."}}

:Averted when -- contrary to expectations -- they can't find Ranma, and his careful Spy Speak goes right out the window.

* [[Stable Time Loop]]: Played with/averted. Sailor Pluto was forcing one into existence with Chibi-Usa's visit to the current era (among other tactics), in order to guarantee that Crystal Tokyo came to be. However, with Ranma's ascension to the position of Guardian Khronos, the time loop is destabilizing, and what was previously the [[You Can't Fight Fate|inevitable future]] is now only a remote possibility.

* [[Statuesque Stunner]]: Ranma's aunt Tomoko, the [[Gold Digger|gold-digging]] [[Rich Bitch]].

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: During the wedding in chapter 10, Ranma is described as "plastering" her best "Ranko's Auntie Saotome smile" over her face.

* [[The Stoic]]/[[The Spock]]: The Gate, by its very nature, is calm, dispassionate and logical but also aware of the cost of using its power. While it does possess emotions, they are generally muted and low-key, which makes the time it expresses anger about Sailor Pluto's behavior such a surprise to Ranma.

** Subverted by Setsuna, who enjoys projecting this image and tries to live up to it. But she's actually very passionate and ''very'' emotionally invested in Crystal Tokyo -- when she finally realizes that Ranma is truly replacing her as the Gate's guardian she breaks down in tears and despair at the thought that it may be relegated to a "might-have-been" future.

* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]:

** Ranma's combat abilities as Guardian Khronos ''start'' at "quite destructive" and rapidly escalate from there, as she discovers (and inflicts on the Australian Outback) when she first learns how to use them. A "Khronos Lance" cast in chapter 8 results in the impressive obliteration of a large rock outcropping, for example.

** The JNID operation to rescue Soun, Akane and Nabiki from the [[Dirty Cop]]s who arrested them includes a ''lot'' of breaching charges -- to get into the station through a wall, to break the Tendos out of their cells, and to get into the evidence room to retrieve the evidence collected from the Tendo home. Unfortunately one of the charges took out a structural support column and the entire south wall of station ultimately collapses from the damage.

* [[Suddenly Always Knew That]]: Ranma discovers that the knowledge of how to use her various tools and powers as Guardian Khronos was "implanted" in her by the bonding process. ("Isn’t that like ... well ... cheating?" she asks the Gate. No, because, as the Gate explains, knowing how to use her powers is not the same as having experience and skill in using them, and there's more to what she can do than the simple pre-programmed abilities built into the transformation -- making this a simultaneous invocation ''and'' subversion of the trope.)

* [[Super Registration Act]]: Explicitly averted, at least in Japan. The Emperor has expressly forbidden the National Intelligence Directorate from tracking down and essentially drafting the Sailor Senshi and other powered vigilantes/heroes. (We see a couple of JNID agents complaining about it at one point.)

* [[Supernatural Martial Arts]]: In chapter 8, Ranma begins combining her martial arts training with the explicitly magical abilities she gets from being Guardian Khronos. The Gate is intrigued, as none of its prior guardians had been explicitly trained as warriors before their empowerment.

* [[Surprise Jump]]: Ranma makes one when Kioko startles her in chapter 3.

* [[Surveillance Station Slacker]]: The priest of the temple of Layiru in chapter 6 who misses a mysterious alert (in the form of a flaring gemstone in an intricate mosaic).

* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: Ranma, being all about the uses of anything to hand in fighting, discovers that the Garnet Rod can shift its shape from a giant key into a more traditional quarterstaff, the better for use in combat. She also discovers that the bow on the front of her uniform can come off and be used [[Whip It Good|as a whip]] similar to Kodachi's gymnastics ribbon.

* [[Sympathetic Magic]]: The inclusion of a comb presumably belonging to his daughter as a [[Eye of Newt|component]] of the [[Ritual Magic|ritual]] Happosai performs in chapter 8 to [[Necromancer|speak with the spirit of his daughter]] seems to be an example of this trope.

* [[Tea and Tea Culture]]: Thanks to private times with Kasumi, Ranma knows enough to be able to comport herself properly at a ''chanoyu'' and recognize different blends, and even has favorite teas. She also knows enough to know when she's out ''well'' of her depth at the tea ceremony with ''the Emperor'' in chapter 9 and is missing a great deal of important information encoded in the seating arrangements and other details.

* [[Teleport Spam]]: When Ranma learns one of the guardian powers she gains whether transformed or not is [[Teleportation]], and better yet it was designed with combat in mind, she immediately begins considering how to use it in this manner.

* [[Teleportation Sickness]]: To her surprise, Sailor Pluto suffers a mild case when Ranma teleports her to the Hikawa Shrine, due to how long it had been since she'd been a ''passenger'' on a teleport.

* [[Tension-Cutting Laughter]]: Midori cracks up and the Emperor is openly grinning in chapter 10 when Ranma demands to know what [[The Promise|promise]] her father had made with him on her behalf. He reveals no such promise is involved and Ranma and Midori both relax into what was already made out to be an informal audience.

* [[Third Law of Gender Bending]]: Ranma works assiduously to avert this trope, starting from the moment she realizes she's ''giggling'' the day after she tunnels up out of the avalanche.

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: When Ranma speculates about engaging future enemies in [[Non-Lethal Warfare]], the Gate warns her that it would be an unwise tactic, because [[Everything Trying to Kill You|most potential foes will not do so]]. Ranma acknowledges that, and also acknowledges that she has been able to kill with her hands for years, and has had to pull her punches to avoid killing or injuring her opponents.

* [[To Be Continued]]: The untitled side story written by Shurtleff ends in this way.

* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Ranma gets one as the Gate's guardian, and is somewhat less than happy about the [[Frills of Justice|outfit it puts her in]], not to mention the [[Rapunzel Hair|massive waterfall]] of red hair it gives her. (Although she doesn't mind the added height.) Ranma is even ''more'' unhappy with the "naked whirly light show" which accompanies the guardian transformation, until she learns it's an "incentive" built into the magic to encourage its users to master the transformation and not just rely on the "pre-programmed" change (and vows she'll master the magic faster than anyone else in the Gate's memory).

** She's even more upset when she discovers that -- for reasons even the Gate cannot determine -- the change in her hair color and style ''doesn't go away'' when she reverts to her "normal" form.

* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Inflicted on Kasumi starting with the (seeming) death of Ranma followed by Nodoka declaring blood feud against the Tendos, escalates when ''her entire family'' is arrested and her house is all but torn to shreds by police looking for evidence, and topped off with the discovery that those to whom she was going to go to for help were probably aware of, if not responsible for, the police raid. She crosses the [[Despair Event Horizon]], but how she comes back, if at all, is unknown because the extant story material ends shortly afterward.

* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Inflicted on Kasumi starting with the (seeming) death of Ranma and Nodoka declaring blood feud against the Tendos, escalates when ''her entire family'' is arrested and her house all but torn to shreds by police looking for evidence, and topped off with the discovery that those to whom she was going to go to for help were probably aware of, if not responsible for, the police raid. She crosses the [[Despair Event Horizon]], but how she comes back, if at all, is unknown because the extant story material ends shortly afterward.

* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: Definitely how the Crystal perceives the actions of the Glaive when they both wake up after the Gate bonds Ranma. She has her doubts about the Gate, too, being the only one of the three artifacts which still seems inclined to follow the programming imposed on them by Queen Serenity during the Silver Millennium.

* [[The Un-Reveal]]: [[In-Universe]]: Luna accidentally gives away Usagi and the other Senshi's secret identities to Usagi's mother Ikuko in the final paragraphs of chapter 6 -- only to find out in chapter 7 that ''she already knew'' (and so do at least one parent or guardian for each of the girls, and at least one has known since the very beginning).

* [[Uncle Pennybags]]: Aiko comes across a bit like this where Ranma and the cousins are concerned, although there's a whole lot more to her than that.

* [[Undisclosed Funds]]: The Yamada are incredibly wealthy, but the exact specifics of their assets are avoided, other than to demonstrate they are very, ''very'' rich. For instance, when Aiko hires Dr. Tofu as Ranma's personal physician, they buy him a building to be his clinic. Unfortunately, due to what was available on the market, they had to get a ''bigger'' building than they'd planned. The exact cost is never mentioned.

* [[Understatement]]: The Gate's warning to Ranma that the diagnostic scan needed to complete the bonding process might be "slightly painful", followed by a comment that the final imprinting might be "disturbing". Two profoundly unpleasant experiences later, Ranma lampshades it: "You have a positive gift for understatement, you know that?" (The Gate admits it's not the first time's been told that.)

* [[Unexpected Inheritance]]: In chapter 9, Ukyo receives 200 million yen from the Imperial Throne to settle the outstanding debt of honor and cash owed to the Kuonji clan by the now-extinct Saotome Clan. It is as a pair of Imperial agents are explaining this and why she is getting it that she realizes that Ranma is [[Metaphorically True|really dead]].

* [[The Unfavourite]]: Nodoka believes that she is this, because she was disowned by her mother for marrying Genma. She isn't by any measure, but her mother was forced to do so to protect the clan from him. This is reinforced by the embezzlement of a monthly stipend set up for her, leading her to believe she had been completely abandoned by the clan.

* [[Unsound Effect]]: Luna saying "Um, meow?" when she realizes that Ikuko has heard every word she said.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Averted in the [[Backstory]]. Ikuko notes in chapter 7:

{{quote|It’s rather difficult to ignore the existence of a talking cat when it sits outside of your bathroom and has a ''loud'' conversation with your daughter.}}

* [[Upgrade Artifact]]: The Gate is this for Ranma, taking her from an exceptional martial artist to a mystically-powered warrior who, it is implied, can defend an entire world by herself.

** To a lesser degree the Primary Key (aka the Garnet Rod) is also this, as its use is required to access Khronos' mid- and higher-level spells.

* [[Villainy Discretion Shot]]: The scene of Nabiki's cooperation with the [[Dirty Cop]] who's arrested her in chapter 9 ends with the cop instructing her to strip, supposedly so he can do a full strip search. We later find out he forced her to pose nude for several rolls' worth of photos.

* [[Wedding Day]]: Ranma (as the bride) and male!Midori (as the groom, thanks to instant Jusenkyo powder) are married at the behest of the Emperor of Japan in what is the last major set-piece of the extant story material.

* [[Weddings in Japan]]: To the degree that we see anything on-screen Shurtleff [[Shown Their Work|shows he did the research]] when he describes Ranma and Midori's very traditional Japanese wedding, its reception, and conclusion.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Sailor Pluto long ago stopped communicating with the intelligence within the Gate of Time, considering it nothing more than an inanimate object. When Ranma explains to her that the Gate doesn't ''want'' her as a Guardian any more, Pluto refuses to believe it at first. It's only when it's obvious that the Gate is prompting Ranma with the instructions on how to finish the Guardian bonding process -- something that Pluto is the only person left alive who knows -- that she even considers the possibility.

** On the other hand, Sailor Moon has no problem accepting that the Ginzuishou has her own controlling intelligence once she starts talking to her (and anyone else who'll listen -- the Crystal is a bit of a chatterbox).

* [[What's Up, King Dude?]]: Despite her improved eloquence and vocabulary (thanks to the Gate) and better grasp of social graces (thanks to Kasumi), Ranma still has a bit of trouble maintaining proper etiquette when meeting with Emperor Hitomaro and Empress Chikako until the Emperor gives her and Midori leave to address him informally during a private meeting.

* [[Whip It Good]]: While exploring what her guardian form is capable of, Ranma determines that the bow on the front comes off and can be used like a whip (or Kodachi's gymnastics ribbon).

* [[Wingding Eyes]]: A bizarre [[In-Universe]] example occurs in chapter 3 when Ranma suffers a brief [[Fainting|Emotional Faint]] upon learning she is now effectively [[The Ageless|immortal]]:

{{quote|Eiko chuckled to itself when it noticed a hint of swirly spirals in Ranma's eyes.}}

* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Although Genma is not normally so restrained, he can only flee or defend himself against the furious Nodoka, because to actually defeat her would require not only knowledge and skill he doesn't possess, but the willingness to hurt her, which he can't do. However, when he finds out that she's cast him out of the Saotome clan in chapter 9 and explodes in rage, this apparently is no longer a concern.

* [[Yakuza]]:

** The Emperor notes that many of the fifteen surviving ninja clans are associated with organized crime.

** The police who arrest Nabiki and Akane appear to legitimately believe Nabiki has Yakuza connections -- and that Akane works as her enforcer.

** The JNID team who rescue Soun, Nabiki and Akane from the cops plan to frame the local Yakuza for the [[Stuff Blowing Up|spectacularly pyrotechnic]] [[Great Escape|jailbreak]] they perform, as well as link Cologne, Shampoo and Mousse to them.

* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: The inevitability of Crystal Tokyo -- and its [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|implicit guarantee of her victory over all the enemies she had already faced and that have yet to appear]] -- was a substantial component of Usagi's confidence in herself and her ability to face her foes without, as she put it, gibbering and cowering in a corner. However, with Ranma replacing Setsuna as the guardian of the Gate, what was once a certainty was now only a low-probability future.

* [[You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!]]: Ranma's response to learning that that trigger phrase for her [[Transformation Sequence]] is "Khronos Guardian Power, Make Up".

* [[You Would Make a Great Model]]: Enforced on Nabiki by the [[Dirty Cop]] who arrests her in chapter 9; he forces her to strip nude and pose for a couple rolls of film. He thinks of it as [[Laser-Guided Karma|poetic justice]].