Re: does Mousse have a chance?


to ranma@usagi.jrd.dec.com
from C h a e <paladine@p.imap.itd.umich.edu>
subject Re: does Mousse have a chance?
date Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:16:32 -0400 (EDT)
On 1 Oct 1995, Wei-Hwa Huang wrote:

>   Shampoo has been steadily 
> defeating Mousse since they were kids, so what makes you think that
> Mousse has stopped trying?  If he could defeat Shampoo, he'd have done
> it long ago.  I mean, he's practically a slave at the Nekohanten.  Why
> torture himself like that if he could just defeat Shampoo once and win her
> love and respect?

	Because it would take one fiancee away from Ranma and all the 
zany fiasco in Ranmaverse about multiple fiancees would have one less 
fiancee.  But more seriously, one of the more consistent theme is Ranma 
is that guys don't fight all out against girls.  Ranma would rather run 
away than fight Shampoo, and he makes comments to that point to Akane, 
about guys holding back against girls.  Mousse fights with various edged 
objects, chains, and ducky toilet, among others.  If Mousse did fight all 
out, there'll be one tattered Shampoo at the end.  And given Mousse's 
love for Shampoo, I don't think that's a viable option.  Shampoo on the 
other hand has no such prohibition.  Besides, I think Mousse is one of 
those simpering masochistic love-stricken idiots.  For reference, check 
out Scarlet Letter and how the main characters just suck up misery after 
misery without complaint.

>   As for comparing things with Ranma, Mousse had to win the first few 
> fights.  No one wants to read manga where the hero always wins.  But
> you'll notice that this was (a) the first time Ranma ever fought Mousse
> and his arsenal of secret weapons and (b) the first time Ranma ever 
> fought seriously as a female against a male.  Inexperience was with Ranma.
> There's no way the current Mousse could even approach the current Ranma,
> unless by surprise, and then Ranma will probably prevail anyway (virtue
> of being the main character).  In short, I don't think claiming that
> Mousse basically was winning his first fight with Ranma was fair game
> for the argument.

	Hmm, funny.  I thought I'd said that.

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