Desperately Seeking Ranma: Difference between revisions

* [[Fanon]]: Implies the "ki manifestation" explanation for Akane's [[Hyperspace Mallet]]; plays with the fanon "psychobitch" characterization for Akane by embracing it wholeheartedly, then giving it a cause that can be (and is) cured.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: In addition to the various Magical Girl groups who have an automatic "Not human, kill!" reaction to all demons, there's Robert Davenport, one-time British Minister for Magic, who clearly regards anyone who isn't a mage as some kind of subhuman creature.

** The security system's "emergent behavior", and Ranma's comment, "I almost wish something big would attack [Nabiki]" so he could see what the system would do.

* [[Freak-Out]]: One police officer present during the bank robbery is so badly affected by Ms. Aoyama's presence that he almost ''berserks'', nearly attacking her in a panic even though his superiors were ''talking to her at the time''.

* [[In Space Everyone Can See Your Face]]: Justified by force-field space suits that let you bounce around on the moon in jeans and a T-shirt -- or a snappy suit with [[Cool Shades]].

* [[In the Blood]]: Ranma claims that this is the case for the Tendo family with regard to ki mastery and possibly martial arts in general.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: "We're not magical girls, we're martial artists."

** "Don't call me Nabs."

** Even more so, the demons summoned by the "portal bombs".

{{quote|"They're practically unkillable. The military in London apparently shot one point blank with a 40mm grenade launcher half a dozen times and only pissed it off. Automatic gunfire it barely noticed."}}

* [[The Omniscient]]: Part of what makes Ms. Aoyama incredibly scary, especially to government types. She seems to know ''everything'' -- especially things it should be impossible for her to know.

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Something like this seems to be in play when Kodachi actually appears to be regretful that Akane and Shampoo are moving to the United States.

* [[Pillar of Light]]: Those residents of Tokyo who can remember what happened during "The Great Twitch" usually recall a pillar of light that appeared to be in the Minato area.

* [[Police Are Useless]]: Almost completely averted. The main characters end up developing contacts in several different police forces or similar organizations, including a Japanese intelligence agency, the Los Angeles PD, the FBI, and the Canadian Mounties. Although initially out of their depth when faced with paranormal crimes and criminals, they rapidly adapt. While they may defer to the heroes on issues of magic and fighting monsters, they all prove to be good and useful allies.

* [[Precursors]]: It's somewhat hard to define true Precursors in this setting given all the interdimensional travel between universes with different time flows, not to mention the shenanigans the time machine got up to, but the long-gone civilizations engaged in the war which produced the time machine are close enough as to make no difference, and even ''they'' had Precursors of their own, one set of which were responsible for the creation of the Silence Glaive.

** The mysterious benefactors of what became the Kw'lyn Corporation, who appear to have been descended from forces sent into the past with the time machine, and who gave them a [[Dyson Sphere]] as reparations for their side of the ancient war creating the device in the first place, basically played this role for a very brief time.