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The Bitter End (Fanfic)

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Akane and Ranma finally get married. It should be the end of all the troubles, and indeed, after a little misunderstanding at the start, the honeymoon is wonderful. But after the return the fights resume, and although Ranma tries his best to avoid provoking Akane, the beatings get more and more serious.The Bitter End is a Ranma ½ Continuation and Horror story written by James A. Bateman (under the name "Zen"). That it offers a dark take on Ranma and Akane's relationship, focusing on increasing Akane's violent tendencies and delves into the psychological motivations behind her behavior. Generally considered the ultimate Ranma½ Dark Fic, it ruthlessly and relentlessly extrapolates the causes and results of comic behavior to through a much more realistic world than the one represented in the anime.It is a monumental presence in Ranma fiction and has spawned several sequels and parodies. He is also solely responsible for the widespread awareness of Rage Disorder and the story's explanation for Akane's extreme tsundere behavior among anime fans.Upon its release, the story hit the Ranma fanfic community like a bomb, starting Flame Wars and prompting several explicit sequels by other authors as well as numerous other responses ranging from to parodies to Fix Fics attempting to soften the blow. The diagnosis for Rage Disorder behind the behavior of his Flanderized Akane became popular to the point of Fanon for several years.Decades later, it remains a powerful influence on the surviving Ranma fanfiction community.
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Chekhov's Gun: After Ranma and Akane's wedding, Nodoka gives Akane the Saotome family sword as a wedding gift, which she uses to kill Ranma and Ukyo in an outburst of fury at the climax.
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Ax-Crazy
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Ax-Crazy: The entire story gives a Cerebus Retcon to Akane's tsundere attitude as an undiagnosed and untreated explosive anger disorder, which only worsens after she marries Ranma. This makes her an abuser within a domestic abuse scenario that Ranma cannot deal with due to the double standard (he can join an anti-abuse support group, but first he has to prove his curse so they don't reject him, and that's as far as you can get "official" help) and the titular "bitter end" happens when Akane encounters Ranma with one of his floozies (Ukyo Kuonji talking to him as two old friends and that is all it was) with a katana within arm's reach.
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Mistaken for Cheating
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Mistaken for Cheating: Played for Drama and Horror with the last piece that leads to the tragedy. At the same time Ukyo decides to take Ranma away from Akane for his safety, Ranma is finally forced to admit to that perhaps he and Akane should no longer be married. Ukyou attempting a Big Damn Heroes at the same time Akane is threatening Ramna with the Saotome Sword is taken as proof by Akane as irreputable proof of Ramna's infidelity. Blinded by rage, she fatally stabs a distracted Ramna, and then Ukyo when she tries to help him.
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Took a Level in Kindness: Given that the story takes place after a yearlong Time Skip, Ranma goes through massive Character Development during that year, not only eliminating the Jerkass part of his Jerk with a Heart of Gold personality but getting rid of his Unwanted Harem (as seen at the beginning of the fic) in order to be a mature and responsible husband to Akane before marry her. However, due to Akane's mental problems, this has an opposite effect on her, making her very paranoid; she can't mentally attach yourself to the idea of a mature and stable Ranma as her husband. She would feel inadequate and suspicious in the face of her imagined slights and the deep suspicion that Ranma was still being unfaithful to her, since the only reason he would be so nice to her is because he had done something in the past that he felt guilty for.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: True to its title, this is how the story ends. Akane ends up murdering Ranma and Ukyo in a final outburst of fury with the Saotome family sword that Nodoka gave her as a wedding gift; the realization of what she has done completely pushes her over the edge. When the story ends, Akane is still committed to an asylum, leaving behind a group of saddened and fragmented survivors (both friends and family).
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God Test: When the members of the domestic abuse support group (all women) refuse to believe that he is a victim like them (they even immediately believed that he was the abuser in their relationship) and Almost completely rejected, Ranma has to reveal his curse to get them to trust him and prove that he can understand the female point of view better than any other man alive.
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The Ditherer: Nabiki and Kasumi both understand to different degrees that Akane and Ranma's relationship is abusive. While they do try to talk to Akane about her actions, her sisters overall take far too long to actually do anything substantial to help Ranma. Nabiki hopes that Kasumi will fix things, while Kasumi privately admits she has no idea how to make this better. Their inaction contributes to Ranma and Ukyo's deaths because they both underestimate the depth of Akane's psychosis, leading to Akane murdering Ranma and Ukyo in a fit of possessive rage.
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Averted with Akane. Her rage disorder is depicted as stemming from her "inability" to fight off Death and save her mother, who died when Akane was just a toddler. Her issues were built upon by throwing herself into martial arts to make herself stronger (and yet never keeping up with Ranma later), her father emotionally abandoning all his daughters, Kuno's lechery and organized attacks souring her towards men in general, and everyone supporting her abusive behavior towards Ranma, who she ends up irrationally seeing as a trigger for her anger issues after concluding he tricked her into thinking he was female. On top of all of this, her rage disorder is a chemical imbalance that can be as genetic as it is psychological, which may explain why she just gets angrier after the story forces her to confront her issues and false assumptions, which are worsened as she keeps refusing to get treatment.
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How We Got Here: The story opens with Ryoga visiting an institutionalized Akane before the story flashes back to the events which led to her being there.
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Laser-Guided Karma: Everyone who enabled Akane's behavior while refusing to help Ranma — even insisting he deserved his abuse — gets a huge dose of this when Akane murders Ranma and Ukyo with the Saotome family sword, which could have been prevented had someone understood the situation and tried to stop her. As a result, the survivors are left broken and guilt-ridden; Ryoga in particular blames himself for not letting go of his grudge towards Ranma and realizing the latter had always been his friend from the beginning.
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There Are No Therapists: Averted with Ranma. Desperate to find some way to help her friend and ex-fiancee, Ukyo finally convinces Ranma to go to a support group for victims of domestic abuse. Being the only man within a group that is composed entirely of women, Ranma's time with them does not start out easy, but he is eventually accepted after Ukyo reveals Ranma's gender-switching curse. Ranma even teaches self-defense to group members and takes an active role in helping some of them escape abuse. However, this is played directly with Akane, who becomes enraged when she finds out that Ranma is attending a support group, and even more so when she is told that she has a mental illness and should see a psychiatrist, causing her to hospitalize Ranma for the second time. When he wakes up, Akane tells him not to attend the group again.
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Ranma also averts this. His issues own stem from his father’s systematic abuse giving him a very strict idea of what a man should be, which comes into conflict with his own morals and honor that Genma didn't stamp out. Ranma is also surrounded by very toxic people who are biased against him for one reason or another and blame him for somehow provoking Akane's anger. Eventually, he starts internalizing the blame and seeing himself at fault, even if he really isn't. This factored into him becoming highly submissive, depressed, and unemotional over his perceived failures as a man and a lover.
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Whole Episode Flashback: The entire story is a long, extensive flashback scene that tells the events of how Akane ended up institutionalized at the beginning.
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Single-Issue Psychology: Averted with Akane. Her rage disorder is depicted as stemming from her "inability" to fight off Death and save her mother, who died when Akane was just a toddler. Her issues were built upon by throwing herself into martial arts to make herself stronger (and yet never keeping up with Ranma later), her father emotionally abandoning all his daughters, Kuno's lechery and organized attacks souring her towards men in general, and everyone supporting her abusive behavior towards Ranma, who she ends up irrationally seeing as a trigger for her anger issues after concluding he tricked her into thinking he was female. On top of all of this, her rage disorder is a chemical imbalance that can be as genetic as it is psychological, which may explain why she just gets angrier after the story forces her to confront her issues and false assumptions, which are worsened as she keeps refusing to get treatment. Ranma also averts this. His issues own stem from his father’s systematic abuse giving him a very strict idea of what a man should be, which comes into conflict with his own morals and honor that Genma didn't stamp out. Ranma is also surrounded by very toxic people who are biased against him for one reason or another and blame him for somehow provoking Akane's anger. Eventually, he starts internalizing the blame and seeing himself at fault, even if he really isn't. This factored into him becoming highly submissive, depressed, and unemotional over his perceived failures as a man and a lover.
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Dark Fic: To say that this story is considered the ultimate Ranma½ Dark Fic would be an exaggeration. It's entirely based on treating a series full of comic violence in the most realistic way possible until its dark, bloody and terrifying conclusion.
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Disabled in the Adaptation: In this story, Akane has intermittent explosive disorder (called "rage disorder" by the narrative).
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Everyone Has Standards: Even Nabiki and Ryouga both realize that Akane's going too far in her treatment of Ranma, and want Akane to stop or Ranma to just leave. Ranma's own mother initially thinks he needs to treat Akane better, but she's also shocked when he makes her understand that he hasn't done anything to upset his wife.
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It's All About Me: Akane absolutely refuses to see things from Ranma's point of view, repeatedly telling him to stop doing things that make her angry despite that he's not doing anything. Even when he asks her what he's done to upset her so much, she never answers and makes their "problems" all his fault in her mind or invents reasons to hurt him.
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Deconstructed and Played for Horror. The fic proposes that Akane's violent outbursts, instead of comedy slapstick, were the result of deep-seated psychoses and possessiveness stemming from a massive inferiority complex. Not only that, but instead of taking the abuse like anyone else would take a light slap upside the head, Ranma was actually and seriously injured by Akane's abuse. And like many abuse victims, not only would he refuse to get away from Akane or even acknowledge that what she did was wrong, but his passivity would lead to progressively worse treatment. Eventually, Ukyo had Ranma go to a support group for battered spouses... which is entirely made up of women, most of whom can't understand why this strong-looking man is among them. Though Ukyo calls them on this, they stand firm on turning him away... until Ukyo reveals his curse, calling him the one guy who can truly understand what being a woman is like. After this, the group gradually warms up to him, especially as he teaches them self-defense and gives them another perspective on "mens' minds".
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Insane Troll Logic: Some of Ranma's rationalizations for how he passively responds to Akane's abuse verge on this.
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Freudian Excuse: Akane's violent behavior. As the story progresses, it is revealed that she suffers from a very real psychological problem called Rage Disorder.
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Due to her untreated psychological problems, this becomes Akane's standard response to anything she finds annoying or threatening. And it culminates in the rage-driven fugue state she enters at the climax of the story upon discovering that Ukyo is basically trying to rescue Ranma from her.
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Honor Thy Abuser: Deconstructed. It's discussed how a lot of abuse victims don't want or can't leave their abusers. In Ranma's case he doesn't want to leave Akane because he doesn't want to break the vow he made, even as others urge him to get the hell out as Akane's beatings become more violent.
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Awful Wedded Life: Ranma and Akane's marriage is a disaster due to her rage disorder and abusive behavior. Though the honeymoon period was nice, when the couple returns to Nerima things only get worse. No matter how many attempts Ranma makes to help Akane be happy, she lashes out and accuses him of angering her without ever explaining why he makes her angry. It reaches a point that Ranma chooses to sleep in his female form so Akane won't try to get close to him out of fear she might hurt him.
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Flanderization: This story is the epitome of "psychobitch Akane" in Ranma fan fiction, an admitted gross distortion of her canon characterization. It had such an impact that there was a deliberate swerve away from the characterization for years afterward by most writers (though Fanon and character-bashing factions in the fandom, sadly, would take this interpretation and run with it as though it were canon.)
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Deconstruction Fic: Of Ranma ½, specifically the Slap-Slap-Kiss nature of Ranma and Akane's relationship. Akane is portrayed as a mentally ill woman whose Tsundere behavior is explained as the symptom of IED (Intermittent Explosive Disorder also called Rage Disorder) and other untreated psychological issues. Ranma is portrayed as a victim of spousal abuse whose suffering largely goes ignored due to societal double-standards regarding gender and abuse. The dysfunction of Ranma's friends is also deconstructed as everyone is abusive and/or antagonistic toward him to varying degrees, and their pre-existing perceptions of him make them unable to believe that he is being abused by Akane, even thinking that Ranma brought it on himself. Eventually Ranma and Ukyo are killed by Akane on the assumption that they're having an affair, but in reality Ukyo was trying to rescue Ranma from his abusive wife. The survivors are left feeling they failed Ranma in some way, whether for not helping him with his abuse or saving him from his fate.
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