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* [[Breather Episode]]: Two: the first is basically an [[Info Dump]] on the background of The Company, the second is a rather amusing crossover with another ''Ranma'' [[Fuku Fic]] allowing two different [[Fanfic]] continuities to meet and compare notes.

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Eclipse, Yuki, Aurora, Ryouga (twice).

** {{spoiler|Ryouga}} is considered a total write-off.

* [[Break the Badass]]: Essentially what Alexia does to {{spoiler|Ryouga}}.

* [[Colonel Badass]]: Colonel Edwards

** [[Informed Ability|Who is so awesome he doesn't even have to be awesome to be awesome!]]

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]/[[Pragmatic Villainy]]: WIC takes both approaches. Have we mentioned this is a [[Grey and Gray Morality]] series?

* [[Comes Great Responsibility]]: This, combined with the [[The Power of Trust]], is how Ranma is recruited to The Company, playing to his [[Honor Before Reason|Martial Artist's Code]].

* [[Corrupt Church]]: The Assembly of Man, whose hat is [[Knight Templar]].

* [[Costume Porn]]: You will find many long, multi-paragraph passages which linger lovingly on Ranma's various outfits -- not just her skimpy leather garb, but her Company uniforms, personal armor and even Senshi uniforms/gowns. Sometimes it seems like Ranma can't change outfits without five paragraphs on every detail of her new clothes.

* [[Cryptic Conversation]]: This is Murdoch's hat.

* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: At least when they aren't being used to crack your bones and strip out the marrow.

* [[Emergency Transformation]]: Initially to save Nariko's life, then made company policy in the D-Program (which is strictly ''voluntary'' given the potential [[Nightmare Fuel|side effects]]).

** Program members have a special mark on their dog-tags. In the case of mortal-wounding it serves as consent.

* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: {{spoiler|Dark Mercury's costume and Venus's evil outfit}}.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: DarkStar's attempt at this is hampered by a missing lung. [[Good Thing You Can Heal|Good thing she can heal]].

* [[Exclusively Evil]]: Subverted, Inverted, Averted, and finally beaten up with a big stick.

* [[Extra-Strength Masquerade]]: And how. Entire battles between supernatural and supernatural-aware forces are fought within an hour's drive of (or even just ''within'') Toronto, with no one outside of a small number of people even ''noticing''.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Being turned into a succubus, according to many, which is why it's a volunteer emergency procedure, rather than a universal one—the soldiers are free to judge for themselves which fate is worse, and choose accordingly.

* [[A Father to His Men]]: Colonel Edwards.

* [[First Law of Gender Bending]]: When it kicks in it marks the point where pretty much the last of any [[Original Flavor]] ''Ranma'' is abandoned.

** If I were a male character in this series I'd be very [[Nightmare Fuel|worried]] indeed. Especially given the personality changes that seem to occur. Several mortally-wounded agents when given the choice have declined being turned, for just such a reason -- they might lose themselves, and there's no going back afterwards.

* [[Foe Yay]]: In addition to beating each other to hell, DarkStar shot [[Worthy Opponent|Galina]] in the [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|crotch repeatedly]], has [[Daydream Surprise|daydreams]] about fighting her again. It's suggested Galina for her part cut off DarkStar's tail (why else would a being that [[Good Thing You Can Heal|can heal]] even bother to bandage a minor wound) and seems to be obsessive to the point of scaring her "men".

* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire|Friendly Neighbourhood Succubae]]: At first anyway.

* [[Friendly Sniper]]: Morgan, post Succubisation at least.

* [[Fuku Fic]]: A dark and twisted version.

* [[Fundamentally Female Cast]]: The Brood, The Senshi, and the Russian Cyborgs are all female.

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Setsuna's, Murdoch's, The Company's, and several others including Queen Serenity (which is a good trick since she has been dead for millennia).

** Murdoch eventually admits that he has no idea what's going on, and just occasionally drops cryptic hints to the involved parties that make it ''look'' like he caused the latest twist.

* [[Good Guy Bar]]: The Red Turtle, or Protagonist's bar anyway.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: As Ranma rather forcibly reminds Usagi.

** Answer: In many ways the Soviet Cyborg Mercenaries seem less murderous and manipulative than the Brood.

* [[Groin Attack]]: DarkStar repeatedly shoots an opponent in the crotch. In a training session Eve is referred to as punching Ranma somewhere that hurt women just as much as men.

** [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold|Cecilia]] -- [[High-Class Call Girl|lavender]]

* [[Hand Cannon]]: The standard succubus pistol.

** Subverted somewhat given their strong urges and empathic connections make it extremely easy for succubae to pair up.

** [[Single-Target Sexuality]] anyone?

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Aurora, Eclipse, Ukyou, Yuki, and DarkStar in the original timeline.

* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: DarkStar's outfit.

* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Cecilia.

* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: a good portion of the cast are ''succubae''. What did you expect, a convent?

* [[Horned Hairdo]]: In her Sailor Earth form Ranma has a literal one of these with [[Odango Hair]] braided over her horns.

* [[Hufflepuff House]]: House Vespar. They '''were''' a rival [[The Clan|clan]] of Succubae that teamed up with BlackSky [[Always a Bigger Fish|and invaded Earth]]. After DarkStar (Terran royal that BlackSky had captured and turned) was killed they were destroyed when BlackSky betrayed them with to Serenity. Serenity herself invaded the earth and took it over, while BlackSky retreated and took over Vespher's homelands. At least that's how BlackSky [[Villain with Good Publicity|tells it]]. No description given to Vesper than they act like [[Complete Monster|Alexia]]. The whole minion thing and all.

* [[Humans Are Special]]: And the reason humans are special is because [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]].

* [[I Call It "Vera"]]: Misako calls it [[Team Fortress 2|"Sasha"]].

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Ranma/DarkStar. It seems to be pretty much the [[Planet of Hats|Hat]] of all the WIC staff too.

* [[Lime]]: Believe it or not it may have sex demons as central characters, but despite the insinuations and innuendos the story never gets as explicit as implies it has.

* [[Lap Pillow]]: Standard Succubus relaxation technique.

* [[The Little Detecto]]: Pattern scanners. Useful items that can not only detect sentient life, but can also discriminate between a human, a disembodied spirit, and a human infected with lycanthropy with no problem ([[Its All There in the Manual|as there's a specific pattern for each]].) Not to mention more interesting yet easier to detect things like demons and sailor scouts. Used to give a [[Power Levels|"power reading"]] too, but that was abandoned after Ranma went [[Readings Are Off the Scale|over level 12 or so.]]

* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Yuki({{spoiler|Nabiki}}), who can pass for a middle-schooler despite her [[Most Common Superpower|succubus sized chest]], wields a pair of cam assisted folding knives oddly reminiscent of straight razors and can create an armor piercing thermobaric weapon with magic. She's about as [[Lawful Evil]] as Misako is [[Chaotic Evil]].

* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body]]: debatable. There are arguments for and against this due to the intricacies of being turned (for more see the discussion page). However there does seem to be something in this even in the best case scenario. Even if it is just a higher sex drive and less inhibitions.

* [[Mind Rape]]: Alexia's favourite recruitment tool.

* [[Mook Horror Show]]: The [[Villain Protagonist|"heroes"]] are man-eating demons which have [[Emotion Bomb]] powers.

** Played with, when an [[Super Registration Act|unregistered]] brood is attacked by [[Badass Normal|Canadian Special Forces.]] Though the real Nightmare Fuel hits when DarkStar does arrive: "Please! Kill them now! Don't let Her get them."

* [[Non-Answer]]: When Ranma asks what gender Cecilia was as a human, she replies "[[Gender Blender Name|My name was Casey]]"

* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: Succubae seem to have [[No Sense of Personal Space]] when instigating interaction (including humans) especially within their brood, but when it is humans doing the instigating it is [[Hates Being Touched]] (except for the [[Cooldown Hug|crying]] succubus [[All There in the Manual]] rule)

** Granted they are sex demons with "[[Blue and Orange Morality|many different kinds of sex]]." As far as relationships go, things are pretty stable.

* [[One-Gender Race]]: Succubae are all female. [[Hermaphrodite|kinda]]

* [[Over and Under the Top]]: Ranma's brood is over, and Eve's brood is decidedly under.

* [[Overshadowed by Awesome]]: Usagi and the Senshi; originally seen as desirable by the company as allies, key to staving off the Reality Collapse. Now they're seen in [[The Load|need of protecting]] and severe training in order to keep them alive until the Stars Are Right.

** Cyborgs and supposedly golems are stated to be "pattern V's" as well.

** Given their hats, Alexia is more of a [[Complete Monster]] by succubus standards than human.

* [[Perky Goth]]: Getting turned into a succubus seems to involve also turning into one of these, especially Yuki.

** The aversion is then subverted hard in the when Ranma fights Galina. She comes home perfectly healthy, if a little [[Horror Hunger|hungry]], her armor however is [[Clothing Damage|all but gone]]. What's the point of wearing bulky armor when it's less [[Immune to Bullets]] than you are?

* [[Sufficiently Analyzed Magic]]/[[Post-Modern Magik]]: The Company is dedicated to both approaches.

* [[Super Registration Act]]: If you are a registered Non-Human and play nice you are fine, unregistered Non_Humans are fair game, The Company alternates between type 1 and type 3 (currently it's type 3 with Ranma and Eve's broods).

* [[The Tease]]: Ranma likes pulling this on Usagi and Pluto in early chapters.

* [[Technicolor Eyes]]: Becoming a succubus almost guarantees an eye color change, some pretty outlandish. In fact, the only characters so far to have escaped this fate are [[All Germans Are Nazis|Eve]] and Akane (though her hair changed). Also they all have [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] which can lead to [[Eye Beams]]. With that in mind, let's rock (again):

** [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|Nariko]]: A sign when [[Yamato Nadeshiko|big sister]] has been pushed too far.

** [[Action Girl|Akane]]: Keeps her [[Brown Eyes]]

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: what happens when you hurt one of Sunshine's kids.

* [[Unorthodox Reload]]: Nariko can reload her handgun by dropping the empty mag, slicing open a magazine carrier with her tail, slamming her gun onto the falling mag, and finally hitting the slide release. All this while engaging in a sword duel with her right hand.

* [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World]]: In early chapters.

* [[Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere]]: And resistance is steadily faltering.

* [[Web Serial Novel]]

** also present in Morgan, though it's harder to spot, since it's not about [[Author Appeal|gender]] so much as becoming a demon, as well as her being quite possibly the most stoic of all in the two broods. Granted the author did devote a whole scene to her [[What Have I Become?]] moment.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Explored.

* [[Winged Humanoid]]

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Ryouga is introduced as just slightly below Ranma's demonic power level and looks like he might be the [[Big Bad]] of the arc, naaaaaaah. it's just so he can be beaten up {{spoiler|and converted}} by Alexia.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Being the big sister of the brood Nariko embodies this. Slightly subversion given [[Gender Bender|her]] past and [[Sword and Gun|fighting]] [[Katanas Are Just Better|style]].