The problem is, the mind-controlled cops/minion things weren't really very tough. You're right that I was incorrect earlier though; the cops inside were fake.
Mariko Konjou? Her life threatened and then just leaving Tokyo? Pshaw. You don't know much about the heart of a cheerleader!
Seriously, these people are not generally cowardly (nearly all of them fight Ranma, for starters). It takes an exceptional sort of person to be able to knock down walls with a punch (or sword stroke, or hitting it with a baton). Plus, in sheer physical ability they so grotesquely outmatch the Sailor Senshi that it's difficult to believe they'd be too weak to make a difference (especially in numbers) even if you do set it before Ranma 1/2 begins.
Yes, some people express shock over Ranma, a stupendous prodigy the likes of which are only seen once a century (or so they say about Konatsu, and Ranma's as good as him). COLOGNE gets surprised about Ranma; does that mean she's never seen a martial artist before? But nobody is amazed that a cheerleader can knock out an entire women's volleyball team with batons, nor is anybody aghast over the fact Akane can beat up literally dozens of athletes at once. Nobody is shocked over the Golden Pair, and while Kodachi's antics raise eyebrows, her skill does not. Bear in mind that even the weakest of these people, in real life, would shock the entire world.
Tokyo not crawling with MADMs and other potent beings? Let's take a headcount. There were two people at Furinkan High School that are blatently superhuman; by the end of the series, there's half a dozen. Seijyun has at least one; the Golden Pair are from the same school, Kodachi is well-known at her own school, Sentarou comes from a family of superhuman martial artists and is getting married to the scion of another, Picolet Chardin is the heir of an entire family line of generations of people with freakishly superhuman eating ability (and speed), Ryouga happened to go to the same juniour high as Ranma and has a house in town, Asuka of the White Lilies went to Kodachi's kindergarten, the Dojo Destroyer had dozens of signs and was a freakishly inhuman monstrosity in his own right, a Shinto priest that can seal demons knows Soun Tendo, Dr. Tofu has a clinic just down the road, Martial Arts Delivery Races bring out dozens of hopefuls, there's a temple with at least two actual gods in residence, Miss Hinako travels from school to school sucking the lifeforce out of delinquents, random construction workers can teach martial artists how to do emotion chi blasts (and the bakusai ten ketsu is a construction worker technique too!), and there's a family of "sexy" female ninjas and a ranch that raises giant sumo pigs just outside town. And let's not forget Happousai.
That's JUST in Tokyo (not even all of Japan, where there's lots more!). That's just what we KNOW is in Tokyo from what Ranma ran into. It's not counting the people that sell magical mushrooms or Jyusenkyou-based magic products or fishing rods that make anybody love you or battlesuits that are powered by chi or paper dolls that control your mind or eggs with legendary magical creatures in them, all of which were also found in Tokyo. That's probably me forgetting a few people, too.
These people are not that rare. The Ranmaverse crawls with superhuman martial artists and magic and the divine. You can literally trip over it without trying (as multiple characters in the series do more than once).
And Nerima is part of Tokyo. It actually exists, after all. Moreover, the setting is clearly in Tokyo. Even if it wasn't, all that means is Random Suburb X has this much stuff, meaning Tokyo would be even more wild.
Mariko Konjou? Her life threatened and then just leaving Tokyo? Pshaw. You don't know much about the heart of a cheerleader!
Seriously, these people are not generally cowardly (nearly all of them fight Ranma, for starters). It takes an exceptional sort of person to be able to knock down walls with a punch (or sword stroke, or hitting it with a baton). Plus, in sheer physical ability they so grotesquely outmatch the Sailor Senshi that it's difficult to believe they'd be too weak to make a difference (especially in numbers) even if you do set it before Ranma 1/2 begins.
Yes, some people express shock over Ranma, a stupendous prodigy the likes of which are only seen once a century (or so they say about Konatsu, and Ranma's as good as him). COLOGNE gets surprised about Ranma; does that mean she's never seen a martial artist before? But nobody is amazed that a cheerleader can knock out an entire women's volleyball team with batons, nor is anybody aghast over the fact Akane can beat up literally dozens of athletes at once. Nobody is shocked over the Golden Pair, and while Kodachi's antics raise eyebrows, her skill does not. Bear in mind that even the weakest of these people, in real life, would shock the entire world.
Tokyo not crawling with MADMs and other potent beings? Let's take a headcount. There were two people at Furinkan High School that are blatently superhuman; by the end of the series, there's half a dozen. Seijyun has at least one; the Golden Pair are from the same school, Kodachi is well-known at her own school, Sentarou comes from a family of superhuman martial artists and is getting married to the scion of another, Picolet Chardin is the heir of an entire family line of generations of people with freakishly superhuman eating ability (and speed), Ryouga happened to go to the same juniour high as Ranma and has a house in town, Asuka of the White Lilies went to Kodachi's kindergarten, the Dojo Destroyer had dozens of signs and was a freakishly inhuman monstrosity in his own right, a Shinto priest that can seal demons knows Soun Tendo, Dr. Tofu has a clinic just down the road, Martial Arts Delivery Races bring out dozens of hopefuls, there's a temple with at least two actual gods in residence, Miss Hinako travels from school to school sucking the lifeforce out of delinquents, random construction workers can teach martial artists how to do emotion chi blasts (and the bakusai ten ketsu is a construction worker technique too!), and there's a family of "sexy" female ninjas and a ranch that raises giant sumo pigs just outside town. And let's not forget Happousai.
That's JUST in Tokyo (not even all of Japan, where there's lots more!). That's just what we KNOW is in Tokyo from what Ranma ran into. It's not counting the people that sell magical mushrooms or Jyusenkyou-based magic products or fishing rods that make anybody love you or battlesuits that are powered by chi or paper dolls that control your mind or eggs with legendary magical creatures in them, all of which were also found in Tokyo. That's probably me forgetting a few people, too.
These people are not that rare. The Ranmaverse crawls with superhuman martial artists and magic and the divine. You can literally trip over it without trying (as multiple characters in the series do more than once).
And Nerima is part of Tokyo. It actually exists, after all. Moreover, the setting is clearly in Tokyo. Even if it wasn't, all that means is Random Suburb X has this much stuff, meaning Tokyo would be even more wild.