This is getting Spammy for the FFML but....
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	Very good points have been made about why Cologne is easy to use
as a villian, and as a respondant to Blade has pointed out it is
counterproductive for fanfic writers to adhere _exactly_ to the
characterizations set forth in the manga (something Takahashi herself is
not entirely consistent with early on).
	However I must agree with Wong when he points out that Cologne
_is_ unfairly singled out as the 'obvious' villian by a lot of writers.  I
used to feel the same way until I actually read some of the manga and
asked myself _how_ Cologne's moral position is any worse than Soun's (I
don't see _him_ backing off and seeing which one Ranma loves).
	Cologne's definitely a manipulator, but I don't see why she she
comes off in 'fics so _consistently_ as a tyrranical and obsessive
near-madwoman (moreso than the usual Shampoo as Idiot or Repentant/Mousse 
as Longsuffering Saint orthodoxies. 

HTG (Joketsuzoku no ADL)