Crossover issues

I admit, I only write crossovers.

I personally don't have a desire to simply change something in the story and try to rewrite all the cannon events.

Now the problems I have seen with a lot of crossovers I have read. Authors take characters from one story alter them significantly without a lot of explanation as to why, or try to sell them as cannon characters.

A few months ago, I was asked what I thought of a Ranma and Tenjou Tenge crossover. I said it had possibilities, but a lot of thought and study needed to go into how Ranma could fit into the world of Tenjou Tenge.

I realize now alarm bells should have gone of when the response was attend Todo and maybe work with the Juken club. Obvious answers really, real alarms should have sounded off when the gentleman admitted he did not know the story that well.

Now I will admit I am guilty of bashing on characters or stories. Mostly because I feel like it. When I started "In the Shadow of the Moon" I fully intended to send the amazons, from Ranma 1/2, in with magic weapons and thoroughly humiliate the sailor senshi.

The problem was after reading the Sailor Moon manga, don't ask me to watch the anime I really will rip into them, I just did not have the ire for it anymore. Sailor Moon is basically a romantic drama aimed at young teens, especially girls, with the magical defenders thrown in for added fantasy.

The story is so full of plot holes and inconsistencies it begs to be made fun of. Which is why it is so easy to work other things in. The story taken for what it is though is not bad. The characters are reasonably well developed and well human. Does not mean I can't poke some fun at them.

When you have no idea about the underlying systems that make up a story it is easy to put in random stuff because it sounds cool. My problem is that having absolutely no desire to understand the world your working with shows a basic lack of respect for the original work.

It defintely shows lazyness on the part of the authors involved.

I have no problem with characters growing or developing in ways you want, but not even trying to understand their basic motivations and showing some sort of progression in changing their behavior is insulting.

Now Uber Ranma goes to Todo. Of course he is going to pound on the newbie characters, there is no avoiding that if a fight starts. The better question is why would he suddenly take a fight seriously, just because he is at a new school would be reason for him to be more reserved in showing off his possible aces in the hole.

Having Ranma simply overpower someone likely to be at least physically on par with Ryoga is outside anything he could do in cannon even at the end of the series.

Ki enhancement also does not fly. While it is likely an underlying thing in Ranma, never is it specifically mentioned, nor has Ranma ever been shown to do any training in strength enhancement.