Misapplied Phlebotinum: Difference between revisions

** ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma 1/2]]'''s Jusenkyo -- cursed springs that, when submerged inside them or splashed with water from them, give you the shape of whatever drowned there first until you turn yourself back with hot water (and then turn again with cold.) Any living thing can be transformed into a multitude of other things: men, women, children, a huge variety of animals, twins, or even [[Superpower Lottery|godlike lightning- and fire-spewing entities]]. Yet no one in the series ever thinks of [ab]using it to, for example, dump a handful of ants in the Spring of Drowned Ox and feed impoverished villages with the resulting hundreds of oxen. Worse, there's even ''powdered'' packets of "instant," single-use springs, but they're even more obscure than the springs themselves. About the only people who profit from the springs are the Musk Dynasty (who, in antiquity, would dump strong animals into the Spring of Drowned Girl in order to procure wives to yield [[Lego Genetics|stronger children]],) and [[Winged Humanoid|the people of Mt. Phoenix]], who use their bird-cursed water [[Mundane Utility|for everything water is typically used for]] (bathing, drinking, cooking, washing) and, from time to time, turning themselves human to spy on others.

*** And on the subject of Mt. Phoenix: their lord, the Phoenix King, breaks every last law of thermodynamics with [[Playing with Fire|his ability to generate limitless heat and light]], [[Good Thing You Can Heal|regenerate from any injury]], and [[The Phoenix|bring himself back from the dead]]. [[Person of Mass Destruction|How many countries has he conquered?]] None, because his primary task is to [[Orcus on His Throne|sit pretty and prim on his hanging perch]] and provide light [[Mundane Utility|for the comfort of his subjects]].