Desperately Seeking Ranma: Difference between revisions

{{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."}}

* [[Not the Intended Use]]: Nabiki repurposes the various military/intelligence functions Jun possesses to help her locate library books, watch TV inside her head, and perform Ms. Aoyama's various mysterious tech tricks, among many other things. About the only thing she ''doesn't'' use them for are combat tasks.

* [[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.

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Nabiki goes from ordinary college student to high-powered magical girl/martial artist in about a year, thanks to a combination of [[In the Blood|raw native talent]], involuntary improvements in her physical abilities caused by exposure to high levels of magic and ki, and intense training by Ranma. She keeps taking levels after falling into her "crime-fighting magical girl" role. Rei Hino even invokes this trope when hearing the story, saying Nabiki "leveled up" when the encounters grew fewer but more severe.

* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Averted by almost the entire core cast, whose changes between personas and power levels are basically instant toggles.

* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Nabiki (as "Ms. Aoyama") uses this as a threatened punishment for the former British Minister for Magic.

** Václav Sklár (willingly) serves his jail time in a facility on a demon world that knows how to effectively detain mages.

** When {{spoiler|Usagi convinces Minako to help her stage an act of terrorism in order to facilitate an assassination attempt on Yori}}, the girls are forced to give them both a timeout on opposite sides of a dead world used as a proving ground and waste dump.

* [[Undisclosed Funds]]: We don't find out how much Shampoo and Akane get for being Hollywood stunt women -- the offers are all written down and we only see their reactions to them. But ''all'' the offers have "a lot of zeroes", and are their monthly pay. Richard, an L.A. police officer, says the amount is twice what he makes in a ''year''. And all other discussion of their pay simply comments on just how large it is, not how ''much''.

* [[The Unmasking]]: Several times Ranma must reveal his true identity and gender to friends who have previously known him as a woman and under other names.

* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]: Seen during Akane and Shampoo's stunt work "interview", where the planning and rehearsals are glossed over and then we leap right into the action.