His mother had retained youthful good looks well beyond where a typical Japanese housewife had lost them.
Go back far enough and you intersected Phoenix Mountain.
There was a common reason for several things in Ranma's life. The reason that the Catfist was so traumatic was the reason that he was fated to fight Saffron, the reason that in some timelines he was able to bring Akane back from the dead, the reason that he was stuck with the whole "duality of nature" or "1/2" thing in one form or another due to established symbolism.
Ranma had died in the Catfist training. He didn't stay dead long though. When he quietly rebirthed himself, he had learned the catfist and incorporated faster healing rates in himself. He didn't burn or anything, he just resurrected himself with a defense against whatever had killed him.
As he did while fighting, he adapted and learned and overcame.
In Setsuna's attempt to kill him, he overcame even more cats - one of whom was rabid and had gangrene in his claws.
Ranma immunized himself, attaining stronger chi levels and his healing factor was even greater as a result.
Sailor Pluto, however, merely saw the dead Ranma stir and get up and go into the Catfist.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Sailor Pluto proclaimed, seeing the corruption of pristine Crystal Tokyo hissing and running away from his father. At the Gates Of Time, no one can hear you scream.
Naturally, she tried again to kill him. This time:
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