Rouge

History
Rouge is a 16 year old Hindu girl from India who holds a grudge against Pantyhose Taro. This is because one night while he was exercising, 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 presence, 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 realized her sources of power were gone, she quickly went after him and changed into her cursed form Asura.

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 into 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 upon learning 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.

Personality
Rouge is generally presented as "over-feminine". She is vain, shy, melodramatic, sensitive to the point of easily fainting when mentally exhausted, and fond of traditionally "girlish" superstition like astrology and blood groups. Very polite, somewhat helpful, and apparently compassionate in her regular state, but also violently vengeful when upset, and mostly disregards any damage she causes, or doesn’t act consistent with her regret, alternately thinks it’s a "sign of bad luck". She’s compared entering her "Asura" form with going into a trance.

An Asura is a Hindu demon/god that is said to be extremely powerful. These three-faced, six-armed creatures are described as being very aggressive. In this state Rouge's personality turns far more brash and destructive, greatly enjoying to fight, eat, and blow things up, being comparatively "over-masculine". Her mind is apparently split into three mostly identical, independently sentient parts.

Powers and abilities
Rouge seems almost completely unable to fight in her normal form. Her cursed form, however, is one of the characters with highest amount of raw power ever to appear in the series, but also seems quite physically weak and susceptible to impacts, when compared to the cast of highly trained martial artists. Being unexpectedly hit to the head by a frying pan, falling from just a few meters above, immediately made her unconscious. However, given her ability to hover and attack from out of reach this has not constituted a serious problem. Beyond this weakness, her three separate minds can occasionally make it very difficult to make quick decisions.

Rouge is capable of effortlessly flying for extended periods, including chasing cursed Taro from China to Japan under the span of a sunny afternoon to a dark evening/early night.

Thunder Heaven Snakes Retribution: A blitz of multiple lightning bolts streaming from her hands, taking considerable manoeuvrability to evade, and momentarily stunning Ranma when holding on to her. Alternately summoned as a single, and much wider, focused strike from above, which appears to be her strongest attack, as the full power, combined with the impact from falling about 50 meters to the ground, was enough to knock out cursed Taro for several minutes.

Six-Fisted Random Comet Shots: She uses all of her six arms to throw several miniature blazing meteors, capable of briefly stunning the behemoth and sending him plummeting towards the ground.

Flaming body: A protective sheath of flames, singeing the hand of Taro's cursed form, forcing him to release his grip on her.

Fire Dragon Great Circle Dance: Rouge’s most impressive feat. She continuously twirls her body, resulting in a turbulent revolving inferno, approximately 40-50 meters across. Literally a firestorm, which Ranma found painfully hot, and was able to bother Taro-chimera through prolonged exposure.

Fire Breath: A stream of fire from any of her 3 mouths. It stunned Ranma for 5-10 seconds when distracted from the skirmish by arguing with Pantyhose, and was likely the sucker-attack that took down Happosai for at least 1-2 minutes, when catching the latter unawares.

Fireballs: Small spheres of fire thrown from her hands. Instantly boiling a small fountain of water.

Asura flash: She projects an omni-directional, temporarily blinding burst of light.

Shining Nimbus: She is frequently surrounded by a glowing globular corona, roughly 12 meters across, which might be useful to light her way at night.

Other appearances

 * Rouge only appears in the manga. However she makes an appearance as the boss of the video game Ranma ½: Battle Renaissance, in which she was voiced by Kumiko Nishihara. There was also a planned English version where she was going to be voiced by Lynda Boyd. However, it was canceled for unknown reasons.