On Tue, 08 Sep 1998, "Always Man" <always_man@hotmail.com> wrote:

 Nabiki on the other hand planed and accomplished her goal 
flawlessly, she defined herself as a villian by the same criteria as 

Genma 

and Soun, however she was a serious villian because she was competant.

Nabiki isn't a villain. Herb is a villain. For the life of me, I don't 
understand how people who've even been exposed to even the anime can 
have that view of her. I'll never figure out how screwy fanfic 
inventions get to be canonical.

	I didn't say she was a villian in the origional, she was a villian 
in the fict.  And I'm using Siskel and Ebert's definition of a villian as 
someone who beleives they have the right to decide other poeples fates and 
acts on it.  Well that's a paraphrase.

The Tendou sisters are a satire on Japanese culture. At one end, you 
have in Kasumi the paragon of traditional Japanese house-wife values, on 
the other you have the the so-called 'young generation' represented in 
Nabiki who is materialistic and selfish. Akane stands between them. 
Nabiki's purpose is to provide the odd gag by extorting Ranma out of 
petty change--she is NOT a player in the Love Battle.



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