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   From: mopperma@suffolk.lib.ny.us   
      
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   >   
   > Essex wrote:   
   >> >>   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).   
   >   
   > Definitely outdoes Ranma or the Tendo Kids in Dysfunctional Family   
   > Dynamics.   
   >   
   >> 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).   
   >   
   > True.   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > In all fairness, the power scales are too different.  For all her   
   > monsterous ability when compared to the rest of the Gotham Knights,   
   > Miss Cain is scarcely more than a match for Akane....   
   >   
   > ... to begin with.   
      
   I think you may be underestimating her a bit. I recall one issue where a   
   government scientist got his hands on a sample of her blood and thought that   
   somebody was pulling a prank on him. Her blood chemistry was of the sort   
   that you may have found in a superhuman, but she had no metagene (the source   
   of many powers in the DC universe). Although she can't drop-kick somebody   
   into the stratosphere or punch you a few hundred times per second, I feel   
   confident that she could easily dominate a fight with any teenaged Nerima   
   martial artist except for Ranma or Tarou (monster form only). Even then,   
   she'd have better than average odds of winning either fight. Ranma would   
   have to use the Umisenken technique or something similar to totally hide his   
   intentions in order to allow his superior physical skills to overwhelm her.   
   Tarou would have to hope that his hide could withstand her strikes until she   
   gets to tired to hit him anymore, because she is to canny a fighter to fall   
   for the cheap tricks that he uses against Ranma.   
      
   -Essex   
      
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