Ranma Al'Thor wrote:

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Matthew Campbell wrote:

Louis-Philippe Giroux wrote:

Differing Powers - OR - The Teaser I Should Never Have Written

A short Ranma 1/2 - Wheel Of Time exercise in futility

Facts, Stupid Satements and Questions With No Answers in Randland...

- Would Mat try to put the moves on Onna-Ranma?

- Would Mat's luck protect him from her wrath?

Yes and his luck wouldn't protect him.  No power can protect you from an
enraged anime female.

Depends on which universe.  In his universe, his ta'avereness and luck
would probably let him get away scot free.  In Ranma 1/2 land, he's paste
:)

Ranma is obviously Ta'avaren as well, and I am irresistably reminded
of Longshot versus Wolverine.  "What happened to my luck?"
"Yer luck you aren't dead!"  But it doesn't matter.  Plenty of
guys come on to Ranma.  He only hurts the ones that touch her,
and Mat wouldn't touch her unless she responded favourably to
his sweet talk.  

 > > - Can Mat's fox medallion counter chi?

Sure, but then Ranma would just punch him.

Depends on what you do with the Chi and whether you consider it equivalent
to the One Power.

It doesn't matter.  Ranma wouldn't use ki on someone who wasn't
a martial artist of tremendous skill.  

- How many Warders could Ranma take on at once?

An army.  Only about 7-10 could encircle him at once and for all their
training, they still only have human speed and strength.  Considering
the kind of damage he regularly shrugs off, glancing blows aren't going
to cut it.

Yes, but if you attack a warder, the Aes Sedai can cut loose on you too,
and Ranma would have a hard time dealing with simply being wrapped in air
and beat up afterwards.

Well, that pretty much is inevitable.  Is there ANYONE who doesn't
end up in one of those spanking scenes?

 > > - What happens if you mix Ranma, cats, Aes
Sedai, Asha'man,
cannon > > fod<AHEM> people and *no* Akane?  Dumai's Well revisited!

I bet the Neko-Ken could actually shred the One Power.

Naah.  It doesn't stop chi abilities, and if it doesn't stop that, it's
not likely to stop the one power.  Now, it MIGHT shred Cuendillar, though
:)

Isn't the Shark Fist a ki ability?  I'd assume that the Neko-ken
would be able to shred those solid air thingies that the women
are always using.

- How many Aiel can Ranma take on at once?

See above answer for Warders.

This assumes Ranma doesn't get jumped.  Aiel aren't Ranma level, but they
are good.  If they hurt him enough early on...

Not likely.  He's hard to surprise, and harder to surprise
with an army.  

- How does a macho *male* martial artist survive in the White Tower?

He offends a lot of Aes Sedei.  (What exactly could they do to him if he
absolutely refused to cooperate?)

Lots of horrible things.

Not without violating their vows.  

- Would Ranma stand in place long enough to be balefired in the first
place?

No, of course not :)

- Who's the strongest (and most dangerous, for that matter)?  A pissed-off
Nyneave or a pissed-off Akane?

Akane.  Nyneave doesn't have mallets.

Physcially strongest, Akane
But Nynaeve can do things to a person that Akane couldn't do in a million
years, like Balefire.  That makes Akane's mallets look pathetic.

Hmm.   Given that Akane is obviously one of Nynaeve's previous
incarnations, using Balefire on her might be a bad idea.