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   From: mopperma@suffolk.lib.ny.us   
      
   >>   Cassandra Cain (Batgirl III)   
   >   
   >  Interesting choice, here. She's supposed to be one of the best   
   > fighters in the DCU, so she might win Ranma's respect. And after   
   > Akane's nagging, he might like a girl who doesn't say that much (at   
   > leat going by the guest appearances I've read she doesn't). And none   
   > of the fiancees would be able to match her.   
      
   She is pretty much THE best fighter. She was raised reading body language as   
   her only language; thus proving that some parents are willing to go even   
   further than Genma to train their kid to be the best (she only began to   
   understand normal speech after an untrained telepath rearranged the inside   
   of her head because he couldn't understand her thoughts). Add to that the   
   fact that she is the daughter of the assassins Lady Shiva and Cain and you   
   have one kick ass fighter (she can currently kick her father's butt whenever   
   she wants to and, in the final issue of her comic, killed her mother in a   
   death match). Her only real weaknesses are her relative inexperience   
   fighting folks with really weird superpowers and her illiteracy (which makes   
   it difficult to use most advanced technological devices). Ranma may barely   
   be good enough to tag her occasionally. Cologne probably hides most of her   
   body language naturally and can use advanced tricks to tip the scales   
   slightly in her favor. Happosai's lack of discipline would probably give his   
   intentions away and thus he'd have to go the raw power route and hope to get   
   in a few lucky shots.   
      
   -Essex   
      
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