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* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]:
* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]: The Americans have a spy satellite watching the Yamada compound specifically to track Ranma. Unfortunately for them, he's learned to teleport by then.▼
** In chapter 3, we learn that the Japanese National Intelligence Directorate is very aware of Ranma and the rest of the Nerima Wrecking Crew, has a group which maintains surveillance on Ranma (at least), and has some kind of project planned called "Chameleon" that will make use of her (or them) which goes active when they learn she survived Mount Horai.
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* [[Big "What?"]]: From Aiko upon being informed in chapter 3 that Ranma is alive.
* [[Body Language]]: Control of one's body language is an important part of the Yamada martial art, and leads directly to the complex and detailed communication possible with their [[Signed Language]]. Aiko notes upon first meeting her that, in contrast, Ranma has been deliberately taught to essentially broadcast all her thoughts through her body language.
* [[Break the Haughty]]: This happens to Nodoka in the years after she is disowned, until she reaches a point during Ranma and Genma's training trip where she is willing to be a [[High-Class Call Girl]] to feed herself.
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* [[Buried Alive]]: Ranma's state at the start of the story. It takes the entire first chapter (and the Gate's help) for her to dig her way out.
* [[The Clan]]: The Yamada. While for the most part we see only Aiko Yamada and Ranma's four female cousins (and a couple servants/family friends), Ranma has several uncles and aunts and numerous ''other'' cousins, none of whom are involved with the family's ninja tradition. Most of them show up on-screen during the wedding.
** Several other ninja clans are mentioned, but none appeared "on-screen" before the story was abandoned.
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* [[First Law of Gender Bending]]: Subverted -- although Ranma never returns to male in the extant material, the Gate assures her that with sufficient experience she will be able to toggle her gender-switch curse at will. And even if she doesn't, it will eventually wear off on its own over the course of Ranma's now [[The Ageless|immensely-prolonged lifespan]].
** When Ranma douses herself in chapter 4 with water sneaked from the Chisuiton by ((COUSIN)) during the fight on Mount Horai, it's too degraded to completely break the curse, but it still erodes the lock, decreasing the time needed for it to decay on its own.
** Naturally, Nodoka buys into this trope full-force, even when expressly told that the lock on Ranma's curse will be broken one way or another.
* [[Fish Out of Water]]/[[Country Mouse]]: Ranma as she tries to adapt to life with the Yamada clan. The sheer amount of wealth and resources they possess (and casually distribute to family members) overwhelm her; the amount of the cousins' allowance alone boggles her.
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: The cousins, but only in the broadest strokes: Harukichi (Phlegmatic), Midori (Choleric), Tsuya (Sanguine), Kioko (Melancholic).
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* [[Genki Girl]]: Tsuya.
* [[The Glomp]]: Ranma meets Harukichi when she all but tackles Ranma when she first enters the Yamada home.
* [[Gold Digger]]: Genma, who had ulterior motives for marrying (so he thought) into the Yamada clan. Nodoka was disowned in part to keep him from access to the Yamada wealth and connections.
* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: Fortunately not to excess, but the occasional "gomen" and "hai" slip in here and there, along with a few other terms (like "butsudan") whose meanings can be inferred from context.
* [[Happily Adopted]]: Ranma's cousins, into the Yamada clan.
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* [[The Men in Black]]: Various government agents of different kinds who appear in the story make appearance.
* [[Miniature Senior Citizens]]: Aiko Yamada. Although she's not as exaggeratedly short as Cologne, she's still petite enough that she has to look ''up'' into the faces of three of her four teenaged granddaughters -- all of whom are of a size with Ranma's female form. The narration explicitly calls her "diminutive".
* [[Ninja]]: Nodoka was born into the Yamada, one of the last surviving ninja clans in modern Japan. Ranma's four female cousins are also being trained as kunoichi.
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* [[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.
* [[Sailor Fuku]]: Ranma is appalled when she realizes that the guardian's uniform is a variation on a
* [[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.
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