Rouge (Ranma ½)

Rouge is a fictional character in Rumiko Takahashi's manga series Ranma ½.

Story

Rouge is a 16 year old Hindu girl from China who holds a grudge against Taro. This is because one night while he was excercising, he heard some strange noises nearby and when he checked to see what it was, it turned out to be a beautiful girl bathing in a hot spring. As he stared at her, she quickly became aware of his pressence, and began throwing what ever she could find at his head, including items she called her sources of power which somehow ended up inside Taro's barbells. Taro managed to escape with his barbells, but after Rouge relized her sources of power were gone, she quickly went after him and changed into her Ashura cursed form. The two subsequently battled in their respective cursed forms. After Taro was defeated, Rouge became a huge fireball and shot themselves all the way to Nerima.

After arriving in Nerima Rouge was knocked in to a fountain by Taro and fell unconscious. Akane and Ranma soon find Rouge and take her back to the Tendo home. After she awakens, she requests Ranma's assistance in getting back the source of her powers, which she believes was stolen by Pantyhose Taro. After much carnage and destruction, Rouge discovers that the power source she uses are fairly common and buys quite a few of them before heading back to China. Taro believed he could use the source of power to take over the world. Instead, he ended up looking foolish when he learned that Rouge's sources of power were simply small magnetic disks used to prevent stiffening in one's back, a serious problem for her since her cursed form has six arms.

Relationship

Even though both seem like possible suitors, nothing is apparent in the manga other than implication. Given the violent nature of both, this is perhaps hardly surprising. The only thing to support this slightly farfetched theory is that in one earlier scene Rouge believed Taro was going to kill her (Of course this was not the case) and in exchange for not killing her she agreed to let him date her and rape her for who could resist such an innocent maidens enchanting beauty, oh what a curse she had! (She was indeed full of it...)

Trivia

• Rouge was never in the anime but she was in the game Ranma ½ Battle Renaissance were she was voiced by Kumiko Nishihara.
• An Ashura is a Hindu demon/god that is said to be extremely powerful. These three-faced, six-armed creatures are powerhouses and very aggressive.
• Rouge's creation in the manga is what some people believe an attempt to create a suitor for him.