On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 12:58:20PM -0500, Ranma Al'Thor wrote:

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Sean Connor wrote:

On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 05:02:46PM -0600, RIG NET- Grayson Towler wrote:

"You Chinese Bitch!  How could you do this to me?!"  Ranma snapped.  "I was
your friend!  I had helped you in battle before-"

You are also reinventing Ranma.  He has lost all sorts of battles in
the past, but he has never reacted to the losses in this way.  

Well, maybe that's because he's never lost a battle in quite this
way before.  

Ranma's been beaten by people before.  What makes this any different?

RTFS.  Ranma explicitly states why it's different.

It is well established that he's a sore loser.

It's well established that if he loses, he goes looking for a way to win.
He doesn't level accusations of cheating and swear at them.  Rather, he
goes and trains for a rematch.

Um-hum.  You're leaving a few things out.

Here's the typical sequence of events when Ranma gets defeated:

1.  He can't believe that he lost, so he repeats the same
    sequence of events that led to his defeat, resulting in several
    more defeats.

2.  When he can no longer deny that he's been defeated, he starts feeling
    sorry for himself and/or insulting the person who defeated him.

3.  Then, he tries to find some way to win.  To his credit, he generally
    seeks a way to achieve an honest victory at first, but, failing that,
    he has no qualms about resorting to some shadier methods.

Obviously, he doesn't do #1 (probably because he's paralyzed), but he
definitely indulges in #2, and seems to be vowing to do #3, as well.

And, yes, he does swear at his opponents, both during and after battle.
He doesn't really accuse Shampoo of cheating in this story -- he does
say, "It's not fair," but that can easily be construed as self-pity.  
Rather, his accusation is of betrayal, which is technically true, but
I, for one, am inclined to say, "Cry me a river!"

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