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* [[Alien Geometries]]: The "Maze" the Sorcerers project to isolate their village and, later, to enclose Jusenkyo. Once you enter, you can't leave. If you keep walking away, you just end up in the same place you started. Ranma even hops atop a tree to look out and
* [[Big Bad]]: Sindoor, with [[The Dragon|dragon]] Kohl.
* [[Battle in the Rain]]: Ranma and Wuya's fight spanning the first chapter (shown in pieces around flashbacks).
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** Also, after the Sorcerer Wuya comes at Akane with a knife, Akane throws a chair at her. It gets blocked harmlessly.
{{quote|'''Wuya''': Everything in this room moves according to my will. [[Haruhi Suzumiya|Perhaps we should kill you and see how Saotome Ranma reacts?]]}}
** All of the bird [[Theme Naming]] is an indirect reference to similar naming in ''[[Noein]]''.
** Said to Ryoga:
{{quote|'''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Stephen]] [[Stephen Hawking|Hawking]]''': I'd also like to play poker with Einstein and Newton on the Starship ''Enterprise'', but that too would be difficult, would it not?}}
*** And yes, this means that Ryoga's wandered all the way to England. He was actually the subject of some [[No Sense of Direction|scientific interest]].
** From chapter two:
{{quote|'''Sindoor''': The Sieve has failed. You know this. I knew it when I felt the [[Star Wars|great disturbance]] [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling|in the ripples]], the eddies of ki that flow through this place.
'''Ranma''': [[Luke, I Am Your Father|You're not my father, if that's what you're saying.]] }}
* [[The Evils of Free Will|The Evils of Free Love]]: The "Night of Magic's Coupling"? 12 men and 12 women go into a room. They sleep with the number they're assigned. Then they get out and make way for the next group, all in five minutes or less. Being able to freely engage in passionate acts? That's dangerous and will get your whole village turned to ash.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Ukyo calls out Akane hard when Akane berates Ranma as a coward and unmanly. No, she didn't give Ranma [[I Can Explain|a chance to explain]]. It wasn't [[Not What It Looks Like|what it looked like]]. And this time, Ukyo makes sure Akane knows it.
{{quote|'''Ukyo''': You bitch! ([[Armor-Piercing Slap|Slap]]) ...don't you get it? He told me off for you! You sick little witch who never appreciated all he did! As much as I'd like to rip your tongue out for what you said to him, I can't! Even now, wherever he's going, he's doing it for you.}}
* [[Theme Naming]]:
* [[Title Drop]]: Not of the whole fic's title, but individual chapters or parts thereof get this a lot. The phrase "cold rain" is often used to refer to the end of chapter one, where Akane bitterly accuses Ranma of not being a man (which, in turn, propels him to China and starts the whole mess). "Monsters and Demons" (chapter three) does this the most, though: the chapter title is dropped in part II, and part VII's title ("To Slay the Monsters within Our Souls") makes up the bulk of the last lines of the chapter.
* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: Sort of. The Sorcerers' village is bubbled off to keep outsiders away, but even when Ranma's taken there, no one's particularly interested in explaining who and what they are to him until he sees Sindoor. It takes witnessing more than one bizarre ritual for Ranma really understand how messed up the Sorcerers are.
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